Topic: BuildingWebsiteNews - Talking Business Internet Puts a Sugarcoat on Scalping - New York Times

If you buy them today, StubHub will have temporary locations set up that will allow you to pick up your tickets on the way to the game. Expensive tickets, to be sure — tickets that were selling for hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars more than their face value. Or they come from canny ticket brokers who have maneuvered, by hook or by crook, to get their hands on tickets they can then resell for a big profit. It also offers a justification for the state's periodic efforts to crack down on, among others, Manhattan hotel concierges who bought scalped tickets for hotel guests. Scarce tickets, wrote the anonymous author, "can be laid at the door of illicit practices in the ticket industry and other practices that, although possibly not illegal, are deceptive, unfair to the ticket-buying public and supportive of the corrupt ticket distribution system. read more

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