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From: David Eugene Coley
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 00:00
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Michael Joseph <gte155i@prism.gatech.edu> wrote: haha. thats a good one. of course i personally dont understand why people would buy the scalped tickets in the first place, much less the original tickets. i guess im not much into spectator sports. i prefer to do the real thing. (notice i dont have any dumb one-liner as part of my signiature....) > Allot of you have either had your auctions for UGA tickets shut down, or > seen an auction that was. Because of this, I have decided to teach you > something about scalping tickets on ebay. Ebay is a respectable business. > They cannot afford to be accused of allowing people to conduct illegal > activities on their site. As such, they are very concerned with the letter > of the law. It is illegal to sell a ticket for more than its face value. > If you sell a 20 dollar ticket on ebay for 21 dollars, both you and they are > breaking the law, and they won't allow it. However, ebay has no problem if > you would like to sell an empty toilet paper roll for $150 and include a > free $20 football ticket. After all, its always nice to get something for > free when you buy something. So have fun scalping, and lets see some > creative things for sale. -- David Eugene Coley Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Email: gte507n@prism.gatech.edu
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From: David Eugene Coley <gte507n@prism.gatech.edu>
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Date: 2000/11/22
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