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 [...]
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Foreign scalpers at the Beijing Olympics…
Friday, 15 August 2008
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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