Sentences with phrase «by scalpers»

Many of the tickets were scooped up by scalpers, resulting, as the Houston Chronicle says, in «national mayhem as parents claw for tickets.»

Tickets for the Dota 2 world championship, The International, sold out in a record 10 minutes and are now being resold by scalpers for up to $ 400 each.

If you're not one to wake up at the crack of dawn only to be told that tickets were swooped up by scalpers, there's another (more civilized) way to get your hands on these coveted tickets.

It was once «controlled and regulated by scalpers and brokers, who either gouged consumers on «hot» tickets or withheld excess inventory for fear that selling low would distort pricing,» wrote Sports Illustrated's Jon Wertheim last year.

Not exact matches

The move to preemptively brand «property scalpers» a problem, however, smacks of an effort to create a villain that the government can then vanquish — a useful tactic for a government headed by a leader with a record - low approval rating facing an election next year.

Hotel rooms near the stadium can be had for under $ 100, and scalpers say ticket prices should drop to $ 500 by Super Bowl Sunday.

If their goal was the former, then they would have figured out expansion of the stadium by now or at least have been looking into cutting the scalpers out of the season tickets.

The company also wants to bar re-sellers from offering tickets they don't yet possess, end deceptive marketing by resellers, and reject a push by some to require the public disclosure of ticket inventory, which Ticketmaster says would give scalpers an unfair advantage.

My money management rules were as follows: (1) Never risk more than half as much as the reasonable potential reward (e.g., don't risk more than 10 pips if your reasonable take profit point is less than 20 pips), and (2) never risk on any one trade an amount that would draw down your total trading capital by more than 10 % (that's my «make sure you don't blow out your account» rule — I'm fairly confident of my ability to avoid putting on 10 losing trades in a row, trading as I do as a scalper and short term swing trader).

The implications of these points are profound, yet they are often over-looked or ignored by day - traders and scalpers.

Naqvi says the government's legislation will build on a private member's bill by Liberal Sophia Kiwala, which also was aimed at banning «scalper bots.»

Scalping is typically the shortest term style of trading in the markets, as scalpers seek to lower risk exposure by lowering their time in the market.

Despite a cavernous capacity of 100,000, tickets for top games — think Champions League — are hard to come by and the tough - as - nails scalpers outside will rip you off given the opportunity.

Most scalpers like myself thought we were going to be making a car payment by selling one phone.

The Amiibo idea is a thoughtful tribute, but the intent behind it will be destroyed by greedy, selfish scalpers.

Big whoop, they get them first, but by the time they get them scalpers who have been selling them will have been hosed (hopefully).

Nintendo's NES Classic Edition seems to be the hot gaming fad this holiday season (mainly through the way Nintendo manufactures hype by creating high demand and then limiting the supply), but if you're looking for some retro gaming fun there's another all - in - one console on the market that you won't have to scour every retailer in hopes of finding one or throw away wasted money to buy one from greedy eBay scalpers.

A docent was robbed of a stack of free, timed tickets by a would - be scalper.

In an effort to prevent eBay scalpers and drive - by sales from depleting stock in the blink of an eye, Thrifter decided the fairest way to distribute the doorbuster is to choose buyers at random.

But then he'd make it up to me by haggling with scalpers outside Split Enz concerts and buying us both tickets, then chaperoning 14 - year - old me into the venues.

Followed by dad negotiating with scalpers outside a music venue to score tickets to Split Enz so he could (secretly) make it up to me.