Tickets to see Jack Johnson and Dave Matthews at next month's Kokua Festival sold out before fans had a chance to act. Scalpers bought up seats and have marked up prices more than ten times, leaving many calling for change.

Jack Johnson's Kokua Festival has taken off. So have ticket prices. The popular North shore musician priced admission within fans' reach at $40 to $125 for the best seats in the house. But, scalpers scooped them up fast and check out their prices. Anywhere from a couple hundred to 5 thousand!

One desperate music fan is willing to trade tickets to Mexico for concert seats. The high prices are upsetting to fans because it's a charity event. The Kokua Foundation raises money to support environmental and nutritional education in local schools.

“Supposed to be a fun thing for charity. Make profits for organization. Not people,” said Rachel Wallace, a frustrated fan.

“The same entities the Kokua Festival is against. It's just greedy,” said another frustrated fan, Carlie Partridge.

Hawaii fans are crying foul again, after being sidelined by scalpers who cashed in on the U-H Warriors' dream season.

“That was frustrating. Only got to like 2 games all season. Real bummer. “

27 States have anti-scalping laws. Hawaii is not one of them.

“Smart people. I don't like it because it makes it harder for me to get a ticket, but it's a free game. “

Fans we spoke with say it's time for the State to step in.

“We saw all the news stories about ticket scalping and how the real fans ended up with the short end of the stick,” said Representative Tom Brower.

Rep. Tom Brower co-sponsored a bill that would make selling sports and concert tickets for more than face value a misdemeanor, but it's been put on the backburner until next year.

“We want to eliminate ticket scalping. It's not fair to the public and it's not fair to the State of Hawaii,” said Brower.

In the meantime, fans hope promoters do something

“They should limit the purchase.”

To give them a shot of buying the hottest tickets in town, without paying a premium.

Kokua organizers gave one-thousand people who took part in beach clean-ups a pre-sale code to ensure they'd get tickets to the festival.