McCartney's three Tokyo Dome concerts, slated for the middle of November, sold out almost immediately after going on sale in September.
The highest face price for a ticket is 16,500 yen ($169), but tickets on the Yahoo auction site are going for as high as 400,000 yen ($4,100).
What's especially unnerving to some is that these high prices have not been arrived at through the usual bidding process.
The seller is simply setting a very high price and people are paying it.
This realization has led to calls for regulation of ticket prices on auction sites. Rockin' On, the magazine that sponsors and puts on Rock In Japan, the country's biggest summer music festival, says that net auctions have become a problem, since the festival sells out fairly quickly and the audience is typically young, meaning they don't have the money to pay the kind of prices online scalpers demand.
Source: NewsOnJapan
