Sentences with phrase «ticket scalper»

A ticket scalper we'll call Alan, who has 25 years of experience in the business, recently met with one of our reporters to reveal the strange economics of ticket resellers.

All of these things, coupled with his look — part 19th century vampire, part rejected romance novel cover model and part ticket scalper — make him a loner.

Jennifer Jason Leigh gives an incredible performance as Stacy, the young girl learning about sex the hard way, Brian Backer nails his role as Mark «Rat» Ratner, the nerdy kid who falls for Stacy, and Robert Romanus brings life to Mike Damone, the street - smart ticket scalper who doles out much - needed dating advice to poor Rat.

There is also the fact that ticket scalpers buy all the tickets and resell them at outrageous prices, and when you get those tickets they're for really, really shitty seats (especially when the concert ain't as good as you expected it to be).

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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.

A number of scalpers are hawking tickets to see the Pope in New York and Philadelphia on Craigslist, the Associated Press reports.

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

To combat ticket sell - outs and scalpers, they made a movie of her concert in 3D so you can pretend that you got tickets and are actually attending the concert.

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.

And I searched in vain for someone to sell my field - level ticket to before selling it to a scalper for $ 10.

All the tickets had long since been sold, but after that description of his artistry and Spain's strange devotion to it, I hunted down a scalper and with every last cent I paid to watch Tomás in the flesh.

We bought tickets through scalpers and arrived to our nosebleed seats just as six separate bands competed with the crowd's roar and everyone rose to give Padilla's entrance to the ring a standing ovation.

Scalpers sold tickets for $ 4,000.

The joy of taking a seven and a half hour plane ride to London, then purchasing scalper tickets @ sky high prices.

They were connected, and they were in turn connected to the 30 people in their train car, the scalper who sold them their tickets at below face value, the whole paid attendance of 21,343.

Some scalpers, who acquired tickets to Trump's inauguration with the intent of reselling them on the secondary market, are striking out in their efforts to peddle them.

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.

While it's true a scalper could buy one ticket and make and sell copies of it or a fan could digitally alter one, detractors believe fraud is not the issue.

The so - called «bot bill» creates penalties for scalpers who use ticket bots, or software that can circumvent limits on the number of tickets one person can buy, and then resell them for higher prices.

Pro Tip: While you may be able to find a scalper selling tickets at a profit in the days before the event, it will be cheaper to simply put your name on the list for next year.

I come up out of the subway into the human circus, pass scalpers doing well (all tickets are sold out), hawkers waving programs, and join fans flowing toward the noise.

If you consider purchasing tickets for a concert through a private party or even a scalper, you can be sure you will pay much more than the face value of the ticket.

I have been buying tickets from every avenue possible: friends, scalpers, random ticket websites; and at one point or another these methods either let me down, over charged or didn't have options!

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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.

Many jurisdictions in Canada have legislation forbidding ticket reselling, but low fines and sporadic enforcement mean that few scalpers are deterred.

If you're looking to buy 2 tickets and you're willing to pay a scalper $ 475 or more per ticket, you're better off getting the Platinum.

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.

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.

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

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

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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.

My dad would negotiate with scalpers for tickets outside Split Enz concerts.

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.

It involved my dad buying tickets from scalpers outside the workers» club whenever the band hit Newcastle to stop me sobbing brokenly about missing out.