eBay Bans Sales of Obama Tickets

[hcheung]

eBay has banned inauguration ticket sales

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[mtyermom]

It's pretty sad the MAJOR gouging these people are doing when offering their homes/rooms for rent. Nothing legally wrong with it, but morally it's deplorable.

 

[Guest]

People are always waiting to get scammed...that's what freedom in this country has turned into...but of coarse a law to fix a moral issue? Indeed a sad state to be in.

 

[gm0n3y]

Why exactly is it bad to scalp an inauguration ticket? So somebody else wants to go that badly and doesn't have a ticket, why does the government care? I really don't get it.

 

[mtyermom]

No, scalping is a legal as well as moral issue. I HATE scalpers, people have privileged access to tickets, buy them in HUGE blocks, then miraculously there are tons of scalpers on event day with TONS of good seats/tickets. THAT's why it's so hard for the actual fan to get a good seat/ticket even when they're waiting in line for hours (either on location or online) for the tickets to go on sale.

 

[gm0n3y]

So instead of making stupid laws, the ticket sellers just need to set limits on the number of tickets one person can buy. I live in Canada and we have no anti-scalping laws, but most venues do have limits. You still get a lot of people buying 4 tickets (or whatever the limit is) and selling a couple of them on Craigslist, but you don't have one person selling 100s of tickets. This keeps the prices down and gives people that don't want to click furiously on Ticketmaster as soon as tickets are on sale a chance to see the show.

 

[Guest]

People are nuts when it comes to political things. This Sarah Palin doll sold for $19,000 on eBay: http://crazycraponebay.blogspot.com/2008/10/sarah-palin-cabbage-patch-doll.html

As for having a place to stay at the inauguration, people should try couchsurfing.com.

 

[kamkal]

or you could just watch it at home

 

[nekatreven]

wow...I'd say this is a bit of a departure for congress!

usually they just tax things that are ridiculously lucrative.