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Add to FavoritesHow else are you going to see the big game? If it's really important to you to be at that history making game and you cannot beg, borrow or steal a ticket - what's the alternative? There isn't one. Scalpers only exist because there is a market for it. Boycotting the Mets vs. Yankees in game seven of the World Series simply because the only tickets you could find were $2,000 each is beggar's belief. Seeing a sold out event should be worth a premium to those able to snap up what everyone else wants. We should be so lucky that any tickets are on offer. And at the end of the day - you don't have to buy them!
That's the great thing about a free market economy. We have choices. We've all heard and have probably said ourselves " I'd give my right arm for two tickets to game seven". A right arm yes. Inflated cold hard cash?! What an outrage! How immoral! How dare they offer tickets to a game that you cannot get tickets to. It's an insult to the hard working players who do this for the love of the game and a few million bucks a year. The players should strike if someone is trying to profiteer by getting people to pay extra to see them play.
Grow up.
When such acts benefit companies it's called capitalism. When it was raining at an outdoor Pavarotti concert in London and a young man went around selling black garbage bin liners as umbrellas for $10 each, it was called enterprising. When politicians raise their expense accounts by 200% over the rate of inflation it's announced that it is good value for money. With the exception of politicians, we have a choice if we want to buy the product. It's no different with scalpers. Buying an Aston Martin for $200,000. That's outrageous. But it's simple. I choose not to spend $200k on a car. But plenty of people do.
The only real difference is: when you buy a product, you don't really know what the actual cost is. A $4,000 Gucci bag may only cost 50 bucks in the back streets of Shanghai to produce. How much profit for the retailer is in a $60,000 Rolex? The difference is that the baseball ticket has it printed on the face - $125. But this guys says you can have it for $1,000.
It's your choice.
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Tickets should never be bought from scalpers. Scalpers, or people who buy and sell tickets for a profit, are already being arrested, but they don't seem to get the point. It is a cheap way to make money and it is just wrong. Personally I think that anyone caught knowingly buying tickets from scalpers should be arrested if the scalper is. The buyer should know that scalping is illegal, and that they are just helping one. I think that that makes the buyer just as bad.
Other than the fact that it is wrong to buy scalper's tickets, it is stupid. If you really want the thrill of the game, buy the tickets you want in advance. If you are not very inclined to do this, it probably means that you truly just want to see the game and it doesn't matter if you are there or not in which case, watch it on TV. If you get angry because you weren't inclined to get the tickets and couldn't go to the game, it is your own fault. I know you want to see the game, but don't buy from scalpers. If you are like me, you hate scalpers and if you buy from them you are just encouraging them.
Scalping is just a form of a scam. Think about it. How many scam e-mails have you gotten? How many scam ads have you see on the Internet? Do you give into those scams? If you don't give into them, why give into scalpers? They are even an expensive scam!
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