Scalper Dot Com

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A reporter for the Boston Globe has noticed that scalpers of Red Sox tickets have moved online in a big way. While the Red Sox have tried to counter with an official site for selling tickets at face value, sellers realize there's a lot more money to be made by selling tickets at huge markups on a variety of other sites. Of course, this is nothing new. For last year's World Series, Craigslist had tickets priced at insane markups and eBay has made some inroads towards being the scalpers destination of choice.

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    Chris, Apr 16th, 2003 @ 5:49am

    The Red Sox are one of the most popular teams in all of sports, and they play in the smallest stadium in MLB. Not really surprising that demand exceeds supply! Now, if I can just get my hands on a pair of those new seats on top of The Green Monster...

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