It seems like parents are going to the extreme for Hannah Montana tickets.
Some U.S. parents, desperate after Disney star Hannah Montana’s concert tour sold out in minutes, are going to extremes with some paying $3,000 a ticket and fathers donning high heels in a race to get in for free.
The demand to see Hannah Montana, the TV alter ego of 14-year-old singer Miley Cyrus, has made the show the hottest ticket of the year, with seats reselling at an average of $240 — topping the Police, Bruce Springsteen or Van Halen.
“We got a couple of hundred phone calls from people asking questions about where to get high heeled shoes big enough for husbands and about 150 men turned up in high heels,” Mark Edwards said.
“We knew the show would be big but not this big. There’s been an outcry as it’s been impossible for regular people to get tickets with scalpers using software to get them first,” Edwards added.
There have been reports of scalpers seeking between $2,500 and $3,000 apiece for tickets that, in some cases, have a face value between $26 and $66.
A U.S. judge barred an automated software that makes it easy to buy tickets quickly after they go on sale and the uproar over the fast sale of the tickets has led to investigations in at least three states: Missouri, Arkansas and Pennsylvania.
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