The highest face value for a ticket on the Hannah Montana tour: $63. On Thursday - in a rare Internet-age example of authorities enforcing antiscalping laws - the attorneys general of Missouri and Arkansas filed lawsuits against people accused of illegally reselling Hannah Montana tickets.Īccording to StubHub, tickets for "Best of Both Worlds" are currently selling for an average $237, making them pricier than seats for the Police ($209), Justin Timberlake ($182) and Beyonc ($212). The issue is drawing the attention of government officials. Parents and children have found finding tickets for the shows difficult and expensive. One situation roiling consumers involves the 54-concert "Best of Both Worlds" tour in which singer-actress Miley Cyrus is performing sets as herself and as her fictional alter ego, Hannah Montana.
That has placed large numbers of seats in the hands of brokers who use eBay Inc.'s StubHub, Craigslist and other online venues to resell the tickets at a big mark up. But it says brokers' software circumvents the company's protections. Ticketmaster deploys technology that is supposed to stop brokers from gaining access to large numbers of seats via online sales. For concertgoers, however, it has also led to ever-faster sellouts for hot events. The Internet era has brought speed and convenience to all sorts of consumer transactions.
A recent Wall Street Journal describes Ticketmaster's problems with online scalpers:
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