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Friday, February 24, 2006

painless scalping (didn't think it was possible, did you?)

Yesturday I put up my extra tickets for The Starting Line concert and the Belle and Sebastian show (both in Philly) on Ebay. Two people cancelled on me for the TSL concert and for Belle and Sebastian I can't really take another weekend off of work so I'm gonna have to sell my four tickets. As it turns out my loss will ironically be my gain as these shows are both sold out and so tickets are in HIGH demand (especially Belle and Sebastian). Whenever I sell tickets on Ebay I usually get at least $30-50 net profit from the auctions (the most I ever got for selling a pair of tickets was for Fall Out Boy last year -- $232.50 and second most was this January for Yellowcard -- $172.00). I can truly understand why some people do it on a constant basis. As the TSL concert is only a few days away I just want to get rid of the two tickets and I was really worried I wouldn't get a bid since I'm not shipping the tickets (winning bidder has to pick them up from me)...but I just got a bid and of course the "under the table" offers that generally follow. The only thing that sucks is that Penn. limits the resale of tickets if you are selling from certain states but I should still get a nice chunk of change...

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