This guy had it all going for him: the Cat in the Hat hat and the Sichuan earthquake relief T-shirt…but could not, for the life of him, get 500rmb tickets. Last night, talking to scalpers, it seemed the going price for most events is 1000+ for most tickets, regardless of what the face value [...]

Business of Olympic tickets booming for touts via kwout

Apparently, foreigners are getting into the scalping biz too…what is interesting is that the article says a bunch of Chinese ones were arrested in front of their western counterparts.
That I wish I had been able to see!

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