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...Lilah Raptopoulos Just like, say yes to the scalper. Matt Vella Yeah. Say yes to the scalper. (laughter) Lilah Raptopoulos Maybe it’ll work. Maybe it won’t....
...sponsored by Ecoalf, a sustainable clothing company who are working with me on a new line of surfwear, but when I need something else I get down to the department store El Corte Inglés, where I might visit Scalpers...
...In one appearance last week, he suggested New York politicians should focus instead on crime rather than worrying about the people he was ejecting, whom he dismissed as “ticket scalpers” and “ambulance chaser...
...But technology, the rise of secondary ticketing platforms and the realisation that they were giving away surplus value to scalpers have changed a lot of minds....
...purchased at the gate for non-finals Cost: General admission last year was A$27 (about £15) per adult, A$18 concession and A$5 for children, but they vary enormously for finals FYI: Be wary of buying from scalpers...
.... -- You hurt the PS5 scalpers’ feelings. -- A term of two tales. -- The problem with an online sales tax. -- The beginning of the end....
...It’s probably intended as a joke, but scalpers are rampant right now....
...The scalpers, using retail bots to buy them, are then posting them at double the price on eBay. The other gaming hardware winner of lockdown is Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2 VR headset....
...Such momentum means that demand for some editions now far outstrips supply, and therein lies an issue: the same scalpers who first bag those Adidas Yeezy sneakers or Dover Street Market fashion drops then...
...At other major events, professional scalpers use “bots”, automated software that can harvest tickets in bulk, so they can be resold online at inflated prices on secondary reselling sites such as StubHub,...
...These rise alongside demand, cutting into the margins of scalpers. Pantomime’s popularity should come as no surprise. Everyone loves a dame....
...the company that is selling shares, occurred because the shrewd and the brave caught on to the idea that, for stock offerings, investment banks occupy the same position in the investment universe as a scalper...
...-- Ticketmaster's secret scalpers -- Boies pleads not guilty -- Britain is humiliating itself -- Chronicling Soviet rock 'n' rolll -- Helicopter Ben on the bubble -- Cupertino's class divide -- Twitter...
...The industry has taken steps to combat scalpers....
...(FT, NYT) Master of scalpers Ticketmaster has developed a secret tool that assists professional scalpers....
...Flag as Important Taylor Swift vs the touts After missing out on an estimated $150m in ticket sales to “scalpers” on her 2015 tour, Ms Swift, equal parts musician and entrepreneur, hatched a plan with Ticketmaster...
...Seating allocation would have to be thought through, but it would go some way to alleviating worries over scalpers charging multiples of face value....
...Auctioning off the tickets to the highest bidders would fix that problem, and all but eliminate touts and scalpers: if true BTS fans have already submitted their highest bids in the auction, there is little...
...Contempt for ticket scalpers....
...Facial-recognition technology picked out four men accused of crimes — including a ticket scalper and a greengrocer accused of a Rmb110,000 potato scam in 2015....
...Before the price increase, an FT analysis showed that the production was losing more than $2.6m a week to scalpers....
...At other major events, professional ticket scalpers use “bots” — automated software that can harvest tickets in bulk, so they can be resold online at vastly inflated prices on secondary reselling sites such...
...She also accused the hospital’s security guards of facilitating the scalpers, reserving tickets for scalpers in exchange for a fee....
...Setting prices too low opens the door to profiteering by scalpers at the expense of artists and their investors while excluding all but the wealthiest fans....
...The review follows an outcry by musicians, sporting bodies and consumers over the rise of professional resellers, known as touts or scalpers, who buy large numbers of tickets at face value and resell them...
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