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The difference between a scalper and a broker...
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| One More Time - comment and observation By: Joe Lee, III |
January 29, 2008 |
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Want to go to the Super Bowl? No problem whatsoever - just get on the internet and get you and your buddy a ticket. They are a real bargain, too!
One of the ticket brokers on the internet is offering six "Corner Suite" tickets for just $230,000. That's only $38,333.33 each.
What a deal.
If don't want to go first class, you can get a ticket in the highest section right on the corner of the end zone (possibly the worst seat in the stadium) for about $3,500. There is not much available between these two offerings, according to one site we looked at.
You can get a ticket to the Touchdown Club party for a mere $482, but that won't get you into the game.
Another site offered an interesting package entitled "Super Bowl Leather and Lace Tickets." We tried to research this a little more, but did not come up with any details.
The typical face value for one of the Golden Game tickets is about $400 (not counting any leather or lace, of course). Each year some 40,000 fans enter the lottery, which distributes 500 pairs of tickets. You have better odds of being accepted into an Ivy League school.
A friend and I got into a discussion about ticket prices and scalping. I kept trying to tell him these internet outlets weren't "scalpers," they were "brokers."
After a lengthy discussion he finally came up with this explanation:
"So a 'scalper' is like a lady working the street on Saturday night for $25, and a 'broker' is like a lady working out of a penthouse for $2,500," he observed.
Sort of like that, I agreed.
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