p2pnet news | TV:- A New Jersey Hannah Montana fan club member wants other members who are as angry as she is to join her in a class action lawsuit.

She and thousands of others signed up on the teeny-bopper’s MileyWorld.com Miley Cyrus Fan Club site believing membership would make it easier for them to get concert tickets.

Cyrus, 14, the daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, stars in the Disney Channel’s Hannah Montana TV show.

Her fan club promised priority access to tickets for Cyrus’s current ‘Best of Both Worlds’ tour, says NME, going on:

“The web site did not guarantee access to tickets to those who paid the $29.95 membership fee, the lawsuit concedes, but did represent that members would have a better chance of getting them.

“Thousands of parents faced near-instant sell-outs at all dates on the wildly successful tour, and were unable to buy tickets through regular channels. Ticket resellers have been charging as much as five times face value for premium seats.”

Filed in the name of the New Jersey woman, the lawsuit represents, “all other persons similarly situated,” meaning anyone else who joined the fan club in the hopes that it would make it easier to attend 14-year-old Cyrus’ first major tour, says MTV, going on:

“They deceptively lured thousands of individuals into purchasing memberships, based on the understanding that by joining, they would be able to purchase tickets before they were offered for sale to the general public, and that’s why we’re suing,” said Pittsburgh attorney Rob Peirce.

The lawsuit was jointly filed in federal court in Tennessee by Memphis attorney B.J. Wade because both companies governing Cyrus’ fan club, Interactive Media Marketing and Smiley Miley, are based there, says the story.

“While the club and the Web site do not guarantee ticket availability, they explicitly state that members who log on shortly after tickets become available will have a good opportunity to get tickets,” MTV has Peirce saying.

“In reality, the vast majority of club members, including those who logged on at the appointed time or shortly thereafter, were unable to obtain concert tickets.”

Adds the story:

While some of the problems getting tickets could be blamed on “the unscrupulous,” some industry experts told MTV News that the lack of tickets is mostly a result of good old supply and demand. Some of that supply and demand, however, was attributed to fan-club sales. Kansas City, Missouri’s Spring Center, for instance, has 18,500 seats; only 11,000 seats were made available for the concert, of which 4,000 were sold to the public, with the rest going to the fan club, according to the National Association of Ticket Brokers. AEG Live spokeswoman Debra Rathwell told MarketWatch that the Hannah Montana fan club would get first dibs to approximately half the ticket supply.

Anyone who joined the Miley Cyrus fan club but couldn’t get Hannah Montana tickets and wants to join the class-action should call (800) 543-9859 for more information.

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Also See:

NME – New ‘Hannah Montana’ lawsuit targets fan club, November 13, 2007

MTV – Hannah Montana Ticket-Buyer Files Class-Action Lawsuit Against Miley Cyrus Fan Club, November 13, 2007

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