Madonna, Ticketmaster, Live Nation — Auctioning Unsold Tickets for $2,510, Disgusting

Well, so Ticketmaster is up to its games again. If you want Madonna tickets to the Vegas show in November, you're screwed. They sold out.

Well, they're only technically sold out. Ticketmaster.com lets you bid on auctioned tickets. In other words, Ticketmaster is now doing the closest legal thing to scalping. If you go to the site, it says Madonna tix are gone. But feel free to enter the auction to win the very tickets Ticketmaster were selling the other day for a few hundred bucks.

Best available seat bid as of this minute: $2,510. Nosebleed ticket price: $400.

Congratulations, Ticketmaster, for finding a new way to take even more money out of people's pockets, legally of course, you're such an esteemed business!

I'm curious. Are these auction tickets owned by Ticketmaster, like, being held back from regular sale so they can be auctioned at ridiculous prices? Or are they owned by Madonna? Or are they owned by people who bought tickets last weekend and are now auctioning them through Ticketmaster? ... Trying to find out.

UPDATE!: So reportedly, tickets sales weren't doing great in some places, so Ticketmaster and StubHub are auctioning unsold tickets at INFLATED PRICES. (Read that story here.) Oh, Madonna. First, you sing with Justin. That made me want to stab my Teddy Bear's eyes out. But now the only way you -- or is it Live Nation or Ticketmaster? -- can bluff a sold-out show is to juggle tickets and make them more expensive?

The Material Girl. Right.