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Ticket to ride: scalpers of the world, unite!

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-APR-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Ticket to ride: scalpers of the world, unite!(The Cheap Seats: JASON COHEN POPS OFF ABOUT SPORTS)

Article Excerpt
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I scalped my first ticket in 1985.

It was the summer before my freshman year in college, Springsteen was on the last leg of his Born in the U.S.A. tour, and my best friend was interning at a financial services company. The night before tickets went on sale, we gathered up our sleeping bags and bivouacked on the suburban sidewalk of a now defunct department store, prepared to buy as many as the limit would allow. Our priority was to snag seats for ourselves, but if stockbrokers and bankers were inclined to overpay us for the rest, well, that would just be compensation for our time. The counter opened at 10:00, but the dozen tickets we bought at 10:09 were decent at best. Which is why every dollar we made reselling them went to a more accomplished scalper, who sold us a pair of floor seats that were still too...

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