Passes to Cyrus concert still available, sellers say
"If anyone wants to go, there's plenty of tickets on the market for it," said Bob Hunt, owner of Premier Tickets in Salt Lake City.
Hunt said his business didn't buy an overwhelming amount of tickets for the event when they went on sale in April. Since, he's been able to satisfy all of his customers who are interested in going to Stadium of Fire, the capstone event of America's Freedom Festival at Provo.
"If you listen to some of these media reports, it's like all these ticket brokers went out and bought a ton, you know, 20 percent of the arena and they're making a killing," Hunt said. "And it's not true — I wish it was."
Hunt, who has been in business for 20 years, said he has plenty of customers who know they can come to him for a fair price and a good seat, without a lot of hassle. He said his customers are happy to only have to make one phone call to find tickets to the event they're looking for.
"All of these rumors about them going for thousands of dollars is a bunch of B.S.," said Stan Johnson, owner of Tickets Today Inc. in Sandy. "I've got tickets right now that are going for $75 each — $75 to $300 each, depending on where they're at — and most of them are around $100 each."
He wasn't alone that day. Utahns lined up outside the box office at Brigham Young University on April 4, hoping to snag tickets to Cyrus' show. Tickets for the 58,000-seat Independence Day event sold out in about 10 minutes, officials said.
In addition to Cyrus, who may be best known for her hit Disney show, "Hannah Montana," the Stadium of Fire will feature the Blue Man Group.
The emcee is Glenn Beck, who hosts a syndicated radio talk show and a show on CNN Headline News.
At first, Johnson said, interest in the concert, which will be broadcast to U.S. troops around the world, was fairly high, but has recently dropped off.
A number of the people offering tickets online on Web sites like craigslist.org or eBay.com, however, aren't exactly what they seem to the buyer, he said.
"Most of those people are listing my seats or other people's seats," Johnson said. "They don't really have them anyway."
Police at Brigham Young University are going to be on the lookout for forged tickets, BYU Police Lt. Arnold Lemmon said.
Forgeries of tickets to Cyrus' concert have shown up at other concert venues. He said these days it's all too easy for a person to forge tickets by photocopying an e-ticket bought online.
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Give these scalping morons free advertising! Sheesh!
That's It... | July 3, 2008 at 4:06 p.m.
