Michael Jackson in London for 'This Is It' Press Conference, March 09'
Just hours after fans and well wishers received emails confirming that they had indeed earned two seats at Michael Jackson's anticipated memorial service, a number of tickets were found on Ebay and other auction/sales websites.
The King of Pop's only official memorial service is slated to take place Tuesday with over 8,700 expected to earn access to Los Angeles' Staples Center and nearby Nokia Theater.
Late last week, the Jackson family made nearly 9,000 seats available for fans and well wishers through a lottery based ticketing system. As expected the amount of requests for the memorial surpassed one million and in fact, totaled near 1.6 million late Saturday, July 4.
As promised, as early as 2pm ET Sunday, a select few received an email confirming two seats for Tuesday's memorial.
Hours later "buy it now" and other headlines appeared on everything from EBay to Craiglist, with the highest bid at $20,000.
The authenticity, in addition to the sale of such a ticket being inappropriate, made most of the alleged "tickets and vouchers" end up on a flagged list and they were ultimately removed.
Those with real confirmation from memorial organizers are expected to arrive at Dodgers Stadium by 6:00pm PT Monday to pick up a pair of tickets and wristbands. Those wristbands and tickets cannot be tampered with, sold or as much as accidentally ripped prior to Tuesday's memorial. If the tickets or wristbands are missing or tampered with parties will not be admitted, reports CNN.
In related news, recording stars and television networks are gearing up for the anticipated Tuesday memorial. Click Here for to find out who is performing and what television networks are offering live coverage of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson's memorial at the Staples Center.
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These people are the sickest most moronic jack asses of all time
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