Warning, be skeptical: Obama inauguration tickets already offered for sale online

[DeepModem Mom]

Source: CNN

Organizers of the 56th Presidential Inauguration are warning consumers to be skeptical of tickets being offered for sale online to President-Elect Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony.

With 73 days to go, tickets are already appearing on the Internet with a hefty price tag. On eBay, 18 bidders have driven up one pair to more than $1,000. One Web site, Inauguraltickets.com, is inviting members of the public to place orders, warning "Our prices will reflect the difficulty in obtaining" tickets. Another site, Dreamtix, is offering a variety of seats ranging from $1,400 to $21,000 a pop.

Carole Florman, Communications Director for the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, says "anyone claiming to have tickets to sell right now, or saying that they will guarantee tickets, is not telling the truth." Florman told CNN the 240,000 free tickets to the swearing-in ceremony are currently in a "secure location" and will not be handed out until a few days before. Tickets to the Inaugural Parade and official balls will be handled by a Presidential Inaugural Committee, which has yet to be formed.

The inaugural committee Web site advises members of the public wishing to attend to contact their members of Congress or U.S. Senator and ask to be put on the list for tickets.

An employee answering the phone at Dreamtix.com would give no comment to CNN about their tickets on offer. Karl Roes, the owner of Inauguraltickets.com, told CNN the site buys and sells tickets on the "secondary market" and, while they are taking orders, "we are not claiming we have tickets" at this time.

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/08/obama-inauguration-tickets-already-offered-for-sale-online/

[HopeHoops]

1. eBay should be pulling these auctions - it is a TOS violation to sell something you don't have.

[madaboutharry]

2. Scam artist: Another reason I get

disillusioned. :-(

[amber_86]

3. The Inaugural tickets are free

You will have to contact your senate to ask if you can get a ticket then you have to pick it up yourself in person. I knew I should of wrote the site down.

[Missie56]

4. Find your Senator/Congressman phone number here

www.inaugural.senate.gov

[DeepModem Mom]

5. Thanks, Missie56 -- welcome to DU!!!

[Missie56]

6. Thanks, DMM

:hi:

[Withywindle]

7. I'd like to ask my Senator about tickets, but he might have more important things to think about now

considering he IS the President-Elect. :D


I'll get in touch with Durbin's office.

[mdmc]

8. I doubt that we will get tickets, but we are going down

this is something to be seen

[TNTSLIM]

9. LET THIS BE YOUR TROOPERS AND THEIR FAMILIES INAUGURATION MR.PRESIDENT

a humble "suggestion" to the President Elect,who is a very humble and

fiercely Patriotic American.

Please, help me get this "suggestion" to Our President Elect,Barrack

Obama.

These were the headlines when President Bush was inaugurated in 2005.

http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/01/bush-dances-while-mothers-

mourn.html

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/01/11/inaugural/=20

It is my humble suggestion to the President Elect that during his=20

Inauguration that he set a different pace and tone in Washington,The=20

Country and the World by inviting as many of the Families of our

Fallen Soldiers and Soldiers serving in the Battlefields of the Three

Front War which we are fighting as he can ( and let the party officials

and supporters take a back seat to them and assist in bringing them to

the Inauguration) and on 01/20/2009 the same food which is being

served to Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan that day be served at the

Inauguration Dinner and the President and His family should partake of

the very same food in the very same utensils which the Soldiers are

eating on that day.

Our President should remember the words of an ancient soldier (Uriah,

who was betrayed by his Commander In Chief), and I quote Uriah's=20

words to his Commander in Chief,David," And Uriah said unto David, The

ark,and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the

servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go

into mine house,to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou

livest,and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing." Second Samuel

Verse (11)Unquote.

Mr.President,as the Children and the families of the fallen soldiers and

the Soldiers are fed at your Inauguration=A0 we know there shall be

no Alcohol with Children around and no drunks but please,let your=20

Inauguration be lacking in the show of Wealth in a nation beset by great

economic problems and so many of us without Jobs but has chosen to

place our confidence in God that you shall be the President that you=20

want to be a President for Main Street and Wall Street ....a President

for all America ...a President who feels our pain and shares our dreams

and who remembers the fallen Soldiers and their families and His

Troopers in the Field of=A0 Battle facing a ruthless and determined

enemy so that we could sleep peacefully at night.

God bless our President Elect the incoming Congress and God Bless

America.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/private?source=mybobar