Representative Barney Frank has answer for celebrities who want tickets to the Inauguration:

Run for Congress.

Though eBay and StubHub has banned the sale of inaugural tickets, and it’s a violation of the congressional ethics codes to sell them, guess what?! I just found some for sale on eBay!  They range in price from a bid of $455 to $20,000 for a pair (and with the latter you get a free Obama magazine!).

The seller of the $20,000 tickets rachelletwilliams says:

I WILL MEET YOU IN D.C. TO PERSONALLY DELIVER THE TICKETS WHEN I PICK THEM UP ON JAN. 15-19. 

And tennisace716 explains:

A very limited number of these tickets were offered. I wish I could go, but I’ll be on the other side of the country at the time. Here’s how it works:

The ticket gets you into the Inaugural Swearing in Ceremony. I will send the winner the ticketmaster code, which will direct them to the website where they can have the ticket shipped directly to their house. You will pay for shipping on the ticketmaster website, not with me.

Bid FAST. These tickets have gone for as high as 5 FIGURES.

 pageantpreps is being very clever to skirt the "no selling swearing in tickets" rule: They’re selling four rock crystal inaugural glasses with a Buy-It-Now price of $1,200. Gift with purchase:

INCLUDED IN THIS AUCTION

FREE: 2 TICKETS TO INAUGURAL SWEARING IN CEREMONY

 Hurry, that deal is over in four hours.