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Fake Miley Cyrus tickets!

category national | consumer issues | news report author Tuesday June 16, 2009 11:48author by Garry Graceauthor email garrygrace at dublin dot com Report this post to the editors

Teeny Boppers Beware!!

Fake Hannah Montana tickets!

Fans of teenage pop sensation Miley Cyrus A.K.A Hannah Montana beware! The website www.mileycyruslive.net is claiming to sell genuine tickets for her upcoming sold out gig at Dublin's O2 Arena. However these tickets are counterfeit and despite charging between 65.70 - 86.25 Euro per ticket patrons will under no circumstances be admitted to the upcoming event. Despite the website having an official looking layout, it has no connections to promoters Aiken, Ticketmaster or to the singers management team. Upon closer inspection of the websites terms and conditions the so-called independent ticket agency describes the tickets as being "souvenirs". However this has not stopped hundreds of stressed out Irish parents in an act of desparation purchasing the fraudulent tickets on their preteens behalf - even though it has been announced that all tickets have been sold out-. Never has the old latin term caveat emptor or Let the buyer Beware been so relevant.

author by Ryan Smith - RTEpublication date Tue Jun 16, 2009 12:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Excellent report writing! Keep up the good work!

author by Stephens green workerpublication date Tue Jun 16, 2009 14:37author address author phone Report this post to the editors

There was a q around the corner all the way to major Toms for her tickets last week .Some people slept overnight to be first in line more joined them from 6am onwards out in the rain and cold. The ticket office opened at 9 am them in walks a Garda stright to the top of the q "i`ll have 14 tickets for the super" he says to a security guard , tickets limits are 4 per person.The security explain that he cant jump the q or get 14 tickets so what does he do ?Asks the fella for "his details" .
The crowd got restless out come one parent and says get to the back of the q or else there will be a riot .
Two shows sold out in ten mins,leaving loads of balling kids and stressed out parents.

author by Garda Tedpublication date Tue Jun 16, 2009 15:29author address author phone Report this post to the editors

What was the number of the Garda ?

author by workerpublication date Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:12author address author phone Report this post to the editors

i didnt think to look at his number and even if i did it would be worth feck all sure they do as they like.Tall blond 25 good looking for a p em Garda,give robocop a run for his money . They could be related, see how much good having his number did for people.
Banana republic!

author by Annpublication date Wed Jun 17, 2009 14:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The actions of that garda should be highlighted. It sounds like a protection racket. Major toms will have him on video. You could try calling joe duffy.

author by workerpublication date Wed Jun 17, 2009 15:29author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The security lads form ticket master will have his number and the Garda has his. Name and phone number, the Garda wanted his phone number! The security man told us and we could see him writing it down.I hung around (well i had too) kept me eye out thought the Garda would be back but had to get in to work.

author by Marie OKeeffepublication date Thu Jun 18, 2009 00:12author email mok1259 at eircom dot netauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

I purchased 4 tickets on this so called website and I know of 3 others who did so also. You have to prove that this is fraud before the credit card company will put the money back in your account. However this is very hard to prove so getting the money back is unlikely. There are just too many gangsters out there. The website is very professional looking and seemed above board, but when you check out the terms and conditions they do mention "souvenir" tickets which does seem strange. They do not have a contact number only an email address so trying to get some answers is very difficult. Ticketmaster should really have a warning on their website in bold print to clarify that they are the only official ticket sellers. Usually this stuff is in small print and not always easy to see. Hopefully people will have been warned enough by now and not buy anymore so called tickets on this website. Definitely a hard lesson learned!

author by Hughbbie - Down with that sort of thingpublication date Thu Jun 18, 2009 00:54author address author phone Report this post to the editors

http://www.whois.net/whois/mileycyruslive.net

author by Ken Leepublication date Fri Jun 19, 2009 09:01author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Criminals will try anything to get their way. Have you ever considered it might be part of a ticket rip off such as selling them at exorbitant prices, in other words touting and/or counterfeting?

Anyone remember the prominent TD's son recently arrested with Garda uniforms in his car, among other things? Now I'm not saying for one minute that was connected to ticket fraud or touting, but the history of the gardaí in this country warrents them never to be trusted.
Sure their are some good cops, but isn't that part of their modus operandi, good cop bad cop? A garda would usually never ask you for your phone number, for the simple reason that they aren't entitled to it, your name and address is all you are legally obliged to give, even if they have grounds to suspect you of a crime, I don't think they are entitled to your phone number. I could be wrong, maybe they have changed the laws, again!!

It's very easy to imitate a garda, but very difficult I would reckon if you are a transvestite, maybe bra sizes would help with id, but you're better off taking their shoulder strap number. And that mulla look a lot of them have, very very difficult to achieve, prostethics I tells ya prostethics!!

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/92183

Well done for highlighting this.

author by t crillypublication date Fri Jun 19, 2009 21:42author address author phone Report this post to the editors

- Anyone remember the prominent TD's son recently arrested with Garda uniforms in his car,

What? I didn't hear about this - can you provide a link?

author by linda meehanpublication date Mon Sep 28, 2009 16:29author email l_meehan at sky dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

i didnt know this was a scam ive paid 226.42 sterling for 2 tickets for dublin i devastated that this could happen as i saved up for so long to get the tickets for christmas for my daughter. i paid with my visa debit card and transaction appears on my ;last bank statement is there anything i can do???????

author by Daniellepublication date Fri Dec 04, 2009 22:17author email DanielleXX08 at gmail dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

The mileycyrusboxoffice.com is fake too. I ordered tickets from there and emailed them to ask them where my tickets were and they said they couldnt supply me with them 6 weeks later! I was so annoyed. I havent got my money back yet I should get it in the next week. However I looked up their website and they were still selling the tickets!

author by Damienpublication date Sat Dec 05, 2009 02:19author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Whoever listens to Miley Cyrus gets whatever they deserve..

author by Rachelpublication date Wed Dec 30, 2009 14:16author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I'm wondering if anyone has seen a refund yet for the tickets purchased from this website -mileycyrusboxoffice .com ?

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