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Civilized scalping could lead to astronomical ticket prices

By Gregg Easterbrook
Special to Page 2

Monday, December 10, 2007

Now that we know all the college football bowl game matchups, there is keen action on scalper Web sites, such as StubHub (which has a partnership with ESPN) and RazorGator, to score the best tickets. On Monday, sellers on StubHub were asking from $750 up to a rather comical $164,710 for tickets to the Ohio State-LSU game (the latter price is for a prime luxury-box seat). The season finale Giants-Patriots NFL game might be historic; on Monday, sellers on StubHub were offering tickets for $200 up ...

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