How to beat the touts Tom Petty style

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What about this lifted from his site

5/10/06 - Scalped New York tickets canceled, new club presale planned
This just in from Tony Dimitriades, manager of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.

We have continued to look at tickets purchased through the Highway Companions Club and, once again, with the help of Madison Square Garden, Live Nation, Ticketmaster and Signatures we have identified approximately 800 tickets for the June 20 show at Madison Square Garden in New York City which were allocated for fan club members but either resold or acquired by scalpers in clear violation of club membership conditions.

THOSE TICKETS HAVE NOW BEEN CANCELED ALONG WITH THE ACCOCIATED HIGHWAY COMPANIONS CLUB MEMBERSHIPS. We will make these tickets available to club members who comply with the conditions of club membership and are willing to pick up their tickets at a special fan club Will Call window on the night of the show. In order to accomplish this, a new Internet on-sale of these tickets, open only to fan club members, will be announced shortly.


Please DO NOT CALL Ticketmaster, the Fan Club, or the building box office regarding your tickets. Cancellation emails have been sent via email to the address associated with the Ticketmaster transaction. If you did not post your tickets for resale, your order should not have been canceled. If you did not receive a cancellation email, but you are concerned about your tickets, or if you purchased tickets from any source other than Ticketmaster, you may check our posting of the canceled seat locations If you purchased tickets from an unauthorized source, and those tickets were canceled, your only recourse is through the unauthorized seller.
By now, you are probably also aware that we have responded to your ticketing concerns and desires by changing the way fan club tickets are delivered. All Highway Companions Club members who have purchased fan club presale tickets beginning with the Tuesday, May 2 presales will be required to pick up their tickets from a special fan club Will Call window. Tickets will only be released to members who can show a government-approved ID and the credit card that matches their ticket purchase information.

The New York tickets that have been canceled will be re-sold to fan club members, and it is only those tickets that will be required to be picked up at Will Call with proper identification. All other Madison Square Garden New York fan club tickets purchased during the April 26th - 27th presale will remain valid and will not require ID to enter the building.

Our thanks to Madison Square Garden, Ticketmaster, Signatures and the promoters, Live Nation, all of whom responded to the call with total commitment and all their resources.

Our commitment to ensure that tickets intended for fan club members are available only to those members will continue.

kc66

Pity something similar didn't happen more often. Its a lot of hassle but fair play to them. Some genuine people may lose out though.