Scalping Funeral Tickets
posted by gyma
Local newspaper Centre Daily Times reports that free tickets were distributed for admission to the 16,000-seat stadium where the service is being held. Then, it seems, greed kicked in. “It took only minutes more for pairs of the tickets to start showing up on eBay,” the article says.
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At least one seller tried to get around eBay’s ban on selling free tickets by throwing in a T-shirt commemorating Paterno, but eBay pulled the listing anyway — although not before bidding had climbed to $80,000.
Holy cow, $80,000?
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