Word: scalpers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Time to go try out the scalper scene...
...fifty," a young scalper was saying last Friday outside the Forum in Los Angeles. For two tickets? Face value for a single is an insane $125, and these bums aren't even in shape yet. "Two-fifty for one," says the scalper. "Five hundred dollars...
...real money was on the vanity-plate sites. Everything was registered, from lindatripp.com to vernonjordan.com with lots of permutations in between. "We own the one true spelling, which is the most valuable," boasts Raul Heredia, a professional name scalper whose company snagged monicalewinsky.com (as opposed to monicalowinsky.com and monicalewinski.com which were also registered). Heredia says he has already been offered $15,000 for his site but it's not for sale. It's a public trust, he says; it's there for Monica. He's even left space for Lewinsky "to convey to the American people the TRUE story...
...Joan Meissner, who paid $40 to a scalper for an obstructed-view seat, to (not) see the final Celtics game in the Boston Garden...
Currier House resident David M. Wilson '96 desperately wanted to attend the first-ever Quad-wide formal this Saturday night. But when tickets sold out on Wednesday, he had to enter a scalper's market...