Yeah, if you're going to tell fans that by joining a fan club they get "priority access" to gig tickets, you ought to be clear about the math - if the number of fan club members exceed the number of tickets available on a tour "priority access" don't mean "guaranteed access".
That might sound like an obvious statement, but fans of the 'Hannah Montana' TV show in the US are suing the fan club of its star, Miley Cyrus, after tickets for a spin off tour sold out in four minutes leaving many fan club members ticketless and disappointed, despite the promise of "priority access" to tickets when they joined the $30 a year fan club.
Miley Cyrus, daughter of Billy Ray, plays the title role in the TV series 'Hannah Montana', about a teenage schoolgirl who has a double life as a top pop star. She is touring the US in a spin off 'Best of Both Worlds Tour', a totally sold out tour for which touts have been selling tickets at four or five times face value.
The lawsuit has been filed by a New Jersey woman called Kerry Inman on behalf of, she claims, all members of Cyrus' fan club. She says that while the club did not actually expressly guarantee tickets for fan club members, it implied by joining access to tickets would be assured. The lawsuit argues that the defendants should have known that the site's membership vastly exceeded the number of available tickets, and that they should have been clearer about that fact.
Inman's attorney, Rob Pierce, told reporters that the fan club and the people behind it has "deceptively lured thousands of individual into purchasing memberships into the Miley Cyrus Fan Club".
Cyrus and the other defendants are yet to comment on the lawsuit.