Article: Scalpers snap up Stadium tickets

PROVO -- As ads for Stadium of Fire tickets at hyper-inflated prices pop up across the Web, would-be concertgoers say event organizers left doors open for scalpers to snap up their share of tickets.

Within two hours of Friday's record-setting sellout to this year's Stadium of Fire, which features Disney teen star Miley Cyrus, the Blue Man Group and national radio personality Glenn Beck, eBay was already teeming with tickets for heavily marked-up prices.

Some tickets are inflated as much as 10 times their value at the Marriott Center ticket office.

Jennifer Smith, 31, of Slidell, La., said her family has been planning a road trip for quite sometime and hoped to have a pit stop at Stadium of ...

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