Balboa Music Festival 9/15/12 - COMPLETE SCAM... Encino, California

I attended the Balboa Music Festival this past Saturday, 9/15/12. There are several issues that I have with this event that leads me to believe that it was a scam.  1) Upon exiting the freeway and entering the location of the event, I immediately entered a long line of traffic, which took about 45 minutes to get to the parking lot.  I sat in traffic from 10:30am till 11:15am.  The parking destination was only 1 short block away.  2) I finally was able to park in the dirt parking lot, which cost $25.00, but only to stand in an almost 2 mile long line. There was no staff or any direction as to what is going on.  The line did not move for quite sometime and when it did move, it was a couple of steps every two minutes.  I waited in line for almost an hour and a half, watching quite a few people passing out from the excruciating 100 degree heat.  At this point I did not want to stay and wanted to speak to someone regarding a refund.  I walked to the front of the line to the VIP entrance and spoke to a gentlement to ask him what are the steps to getting my refund because I have been here since 10:30 a.m.  The gentlement asked me to just hold on a second and he will let me thru.  As I waited I was looking at the front of the line and noticed that thre were no security checks, people were just going thru.  At this point I did not feel safe being there.  After a few minutes the gentleman walked me to the general entrance line.  As I went to find a location to lay my blanket, it was very clear that they oversold tickets because it was extremely crowded and the line was still very long outside with general admission ticket holders.  I know of this because many people in line had coolers, umbrellas and blankes.  General admission tickets were only allowed these items.  I found a location very far from the area to sit.  Extremely paranoid at this point because of the fact that at any given moment something could happen because there was no true security.  I saw people with glass cups, hammers to hammer their umbrellas into the ground, etc. There was no security walking the grounds checking on these things. 3) The concert did not start until after 1:30pm.  The acts were rushed, there were long intermissions, plus all of the acts did not perform. I prepaid for 2 tickets at a shoe store location, which was $61.00 each.  I feel that this concert was extremely unorganized and unsafe.  Plus the location was at a park, so the promoters of this function put everyone at risk just to have money in there pocket (i.e. no proper security/security checks, no staff, long wait in the sun, etc.)  It is not fair that I, a consumer, spent so much money for a event at a park and the promotion could not at least do the bare minimum and provide safety and made sure all of the acts performed. I demand a refund and will not attended another event if and when they have another.