I bought three tickets from stupid ticketmaster over the phone, told them they were for me and two 11 year-olds and they gave me one seat on row g and two seats on row l and then seats 11 and seats 16 and 17... This is for Birmingham Alabama Taylor swift/kellie pickler. I am very angry.

I called ticketmaster & they will not help me at all.

I have even contacted better bussiness bureau of california which is where headquarters of ticketmaster is. I have contacted every taylor swift and kellie pickler website and will do it more till someone answers me. I just found a website that is selling tickets in our nosebleed section for 100.00 each! I paid 160.00 For three tickets that I could not afford in the first place. They are for my little girls birthday.

If anyone can help let me know.

I think the discussion is a little one sided. This is not criminal exploitation, even if sometimes it can be frustrating to the ordinary punter. It is simple business the same as anywhere else - no-one moans that a big retailer buys a block of eg books, marks them up, and sells them to the public. If no-one paid the higher prices, the business would soon stop. Also, there are no laws preventing joe public from scouring the lists and standing in queues to pick up the original tickets.

At the end of the day, the amount of money to be made is exactly proportional to the amount of work that is put in. In short, for those who are moaning that the mark up is too big to be fair, why not do the same thing and undercut hence raising extra money for future tickets and reducing the mark up?

Buying tickets to sell at a higher price is not hard-earned money. Buy 6 tickets at 50 dollars a piece. Sell them for 200 dollars a piece. That's 1200 dollars of 'hard-earned' cash.

I think it is really, really sad that a regular person can't get a good seat at a show, because these companies buy them up for 90.00 and resell them for 1000.00.I don't think that this is any different than some one selling them at the event. They need to put a stop to it..They say the show is sold out but when you go there is section unfilled..which a normal person could go and see these shows. I feel like going to the state rep or congress to stop this kind of robbery...does anybody else feel like this...

Its not about whether its legal, It just wrong. Ticket scalpers are mean. how can you make your money off of screwing people over

The tickets I've bought that went unsold and I had to eat them for full value I'd be willing to sell now at half price. If someone wants to purchase tickets to a concert or game then go online when they become available instead of doing whatever else you're doing. This is a business, just like any other, you're supposed to get paid like any other job. That's why you work so you can take your daughter to the Hannah Montana concert.

By the way a lot of tickets are now available on TicketsNow before they go onsale. That's because its TicketMaster's resell arm that had the tickets in the first place.

I despise ticket scalpers. Tickets disappear quickly, become available only at inflated prices, and the event typically becomes a sellout with less than capacity attendance. An event goes on sale, sells out in 10 minutes before an average Joe can get any, and we see 500 tickets on Stubhub, ebay, etc. There is an easy solution to this!!!!

The vast majority of sales are internet or phone charge. They require a credit card. Print the name of the cardholder on the tickets, and require that cardholder to be present when the tickets are used.

I will gladly stand in line a little longer to get into the event this way, if it means I can get my tickets at face value and know that the event capacity is met with fans not empty scalper seats.

scalpers are the scum of the earth. i don't care what you call them: scalpers, brokers, they can all burn in hell as far as i am concerned. ticketmaster, ebay and especially those at ticketnetwork with their homeboy al branch are interested in one thing only: how to screw the average guy out of the most money with the least amount of effort.

House flipping is different from ticket scalping because when one flips a house, they have to fix it up in order to demand a higher price than they paid. If one purchases a ticket in the back row, they cannot "fix it up" and turn it into a front row seat for more money. its the same ticket, just tacking on profit.

not sure that i see the similarities between house flipping and ticket scalping. don't get me wrong, i think that ticket scalping has become a total rip off for the average guy who just wants to take his daughter to see Hannah Montana. but house flippers (and i'm not one) purchase homes which are typically in need of rehabilitation for one reason or another, fix them up and sell them for a profit. yes, they take real financial risks and invest real money into them. while there are surely many unscrupulous flippers just as with ticket scalpers, it's nice when a home gets fixed up, raising *everyone's* property values. the ticket scalper on the other hand, provides no other community service than fattening his pockets.

House flippers, and ticket scalpers are of the same Greed based mentality yet, House flippers have pay more, yet get bigger yields. Unless you buy tickets in blocks, Both are scum! Don't ever buy a house if the person or person (they like to call themselves investors, to sugar coat their greed and their greed based goals.) They also seem to believe or more importantly let themselves off the hook by saying they are taking the risk for possible loss. The whole time refuse to take a look at opportunities they destroy for other people who are not greed motivated. Ticket Scalpers/ House flippers rationalize what they do to alleviate personal and business accountability.

One: don't ever buy a ticket if over face value!

Two:Don't ever buy a house unless person has history of times the house has been sold: to ferret out these type of people. House buying is not a split second decision type deal. To prevent these type people to spread. Don't ever buy a house unless it has been owned for Four Years. By one person! Find all the info you can you can and expose these people for who they really are. Ticket scalping and house flippers long term and short term make it bad for all people involved. Don't deal with these people... let them and give them much rope to hang themselves and their partners by letting them hold on to their tickets and houses over a long period of time. So they can't handle the expense. All people should respond, collectively the same without fail. Hold the line and do not waiver. Starve these people out... Don't play their game. be aggressive with sharing this info... with people who could be the next victim $$$ regarding loses. Be a stand up person and share this info... in its short form.

I never got the whole argument against ticket scalping. When someone "flips" a house, everyone want to know how they did it. We even have TV shows about how to do it. Yet when we "flip" a ticket, we are keeping the man-on-the-street away from his "right" to go to an event. House flipping does a lot more to take money put of hard-working people's wallets than ticket flipping. I have been a doing this for years now and have helped many other people get into the ticket broker business.

Ticket scalpers are just like anyone else: trying to make a hard-earned buck

just b/c you go about this a different way does not mean that it is wrong; if you want the tickets online you can buy them at the same time the scalpers do: right when they become available

i agree that these ticket brokers make it very difficult for people to get tickets sometimes. here in kansas city, people had a hard time buying Hannah Montana tickets online when they went onsale because some ticket brokers had some sort of program that bought big bunches of tickets. i don't know exactly how that works, but there were people who could not buy tickets even thought they went online right when they went on sale.

The practice of legal ticket scalping thru ticket master and brokers is nothing short of stealing and discrimination. They take a ticket for an event that sells for $25 at the box office and buy up all of the good seats and then resale them for $100. The common person never has the same chance to see an event as a person who has the money to spend on these tickets. Ticket Master and the brokers then through their charitable donations become the beautiful helpful organizations who help America. The individuals who own and run these companies are lauded as great people for what they do for society when all they have done is take an event and overprice it basically making everyone pay more so they can look better. If it is against the law in many states for a person stuck with an extra ticket to sell it for more than face value then why do we allow a double standard? The ruse that these companies are taking a risk by buying these blocks and they could take a loss is obviously a lie because all one has to do is look at how much money they are making as companies.