Backstreet Boys Try To Turn Ticket Scalping Incident Into Charitable Occasion
Source: MTV.com The Backstreet Boys have asked a concert promoter to make a donation of $75,000 to the Columbine College Fund after charging that more than 1,000 tickets for a recent concert in Denver wound up in the hands of scalpers.
The band has asked the House Of Blues to donate $75,000 to the fund after some 1,200 tickets to the group's Halloween show at Denver's Pepsi Center that had been allocated to the promoter (in this case House Of Blues) wound up in scalpers' pockets. Instead of fetching the $38.50 face value, the tickets were then sold to Backstreet fans for somewhere in the neighborhood of $110, a development that does not sit well with the group.
"We've done everything we can to prevent scalping, from limiting the number of tickets purchased to distributing wrist bands," the group noted in a statement about the incident. "To think scalping of this type occurred at our Denver show infuriated us."
For their part, a spokesperson for the House Of Blues told MTV News, "We have launched an internal investigation into the matter and when that investigation is complete, we will take appropriate action."
-- Tina Johnson
