WASHINGTON (CNN) - The interest in the president-elect Barack Obama 's inauguration is running so high that a ticket agent asks 20,095 U.S. dollars for a single ticket.
The entry into the largest event in Washington is free if your congressman or senator in his grant application, but with demand exceeding supply traditional contest has become a booming online market.
Legitimate ticket brokers - the same companies that sell tickets to rock concerts and NASCAR races - are sold tickets to the inauguration of Barack Obama for thousands of dollars, even for standing room areas at the National Mall.
The organizers of the inauguration saying that it violates the spirit of the event and could mean disappointment for those who buy tickets to the Jan. 20 ceremony.
The government has printed 250,000 tickets so far, the celebration in a safe place. For information on how to get one, check out http://inaugural.senate.gov/.
Ticket brokers act as agents, ticket sales inaugural say that the purchase of Capitol Hill employees and persons receiving them from members of Congress.
Since the government releases tickets at the last minute - less than a week before the inauguration - ticket brokers can not ensure that it will receive enough tickets to fill their orders.
Web sites promise a full refund if the tickets are not guaranteed to buyers, but that offer may be little consolation to those who invest in a trip to Washington to see the inauguration.
Since the tickets do not have the attendees' names from them, Gantman said that 's inevitable some are sold.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the chairman of the inauguration committee, said Monday that she was ready to ask Congress to make it an offense of possession of the scalp tickets.
