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Article #7514Re: UGA Tickets on eBay
From: Wes McIntosh
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 00:00
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Reminds me of someone selling a ticket stub for an old football game... and, oh yeah, they throw in some tickets to the upcoming UGA/GT game. Is that scalping? -Wes. -- ************************************************ Wes McIntosh http://users.sccoast.net/fwm wes.mcintosh@resnet.gatech.edu (404) 685-8348 (home) Atlanta, GA (678) 592-4706 (cell) 30313 ************************************************ Banky the Hack <gte402p@prism.gatech.edu> wrote in message news:8uvmpg$i59$1@news-int.gatech.edu... > Two guys walk into a bar, Justin Alspaugh says > > >> I have some UGA tix for sale on eBay. If you're interested, check out: > >> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1101498762 > > > Isn't this technically scalping? > > as long as he doesn't sell them for more than face value...but this > auction is in violation of ebay rules > > check out http://pages.ebay.com/help/community/png-tickets.html > > and i'll pull a Mendis here.... > > 10-1-310 G > *** CODE SECTION *** 09/12/00 > > 10-1-310. > > (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale > any ticket of admission or other evidence of the right of entry to > any football game, basketball game, baseball game, soccer game, > hockey game, or tennis or golf tournament for a price in excess of > the price printed on the ticket; provided, however, that a service > charge not to exceed $3.00 may be charged when tickets or other > evidences of the right of entry are sold by an authorized ticket > agent through places of established business licensed to do business > by the municipality or county, where applicable, in which such > places of business are located. > > b) blah bla blah... > > > you get the point > > -- > Banky the Hack > Jameson@cc > "kiss my grits, nooch" -Jay
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: ffb89,dce98614bc468341 X-Google-Attributes: gidffb89,public From: "Wes McIntosh" <wes.mcintosh@resnet.gatech.edu> Subject: Re: UGA Tickets on eBay Date: 2000/11/15 Message-ID: <8uvp5j$m7c$1@news-int.gatech.edu> X-Deja-AN: 694194134 References: <8uvhlo$fhe$1@news-int.gatech.edu> <3A135655.FC12FE8C@prism.gatech.edu> <8uvmpg$i59$1@news-int.gatech.edu> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.gatech.edu X-Trace: news-int.gatech.edu 974350323 22764 128.61.98.12 (16 Nov 2000 04:52:03 GMT) Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, USA X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Reply-To: "Wes McIntosh" <wes.mcintosh@resnet.gatech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Nov 2000 04:52:03 GMT Newsgroups: git.ads