Ticket Scalpers Not Doing Good Business in Athens
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The perennial Olympics pariah, commonly known as the ticket scalper, is having a hard time in Athens. Scalpers normally buy hard-to-get tickets, with hopes of selling them later at highly inflated prices.
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Huge demand for the second tranche of Beijing Olympics tickets overwhelmed the booking system, jammed telephone lines and caused lengthy queues when sales started on Tuesday morning.
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I thought the commotion before the race was disgraceful. Obviously, those in the stadium didn&#39;t represent the whole of Greece, but it looked bad for the organisers of a good Games thus far.
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You can't always get what you want when the Rolling Stones are set to play a small Montana city and you're trying to unload your concert tickets.
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By Anna Jeys  TAKE That tickets were up for sale on eBay today for up to 8 TIMES their actual price - moments after the NEC completely sold out in just 30 minutes.
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Greece are quick out of the blocks when it comes to making money out of their Olympic medal winners.
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By Gary Mihoces  More than 1,000 people were denied entry when they arrived at ticket gates for last year's Super Bowl in Detroit with counterfeit tickets, according to Anastasia Danias, an NFL attorney.
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Olympic chiefs have ruled out cutting ticket prices despite poor attendances.
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Some 1.85 million tickets for next year's Beijing Olympics will be up for grabs on a first-come, first-serve basis when the second round of domestic sales start on Tuesday.
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The New England Patriots have filed suit against one of the nation's largest ticket resellers, StubHub Inc., saying the company encourages fans to flout the state antiscalping law and the team's prohibition against reselling Patriots tickets for a profit by facilitating the sale of tickets on its website, StubHub.com.
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The Athens 2004 Games which will have a  place in history as the Olympics' homecoming may also be  remembered as the Games that redefined a ticket scalper's job.
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ORGANISERS of this year's Glastonbury Festival have cancelled tickets which have appeared on the internet auction website eBay - and today warned fans not to buy from touts.
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Greek authorities dealt with more than 700 security scares during the Athens Games, including a bomb hoax before the opening ceremony and a propane leak at a luxury hotel that was hosting hundreds of representatives from major Olympic sponsors.
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The 2004 Olympic games in Athens, Greece, have been attracting a growing worldwide audience since they began August 13. Particularly attentive have been Greek-Americans.
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The days of seeking out ticket-scalpers in the shadows, ducking into alleys and dodging police for that elusive Yankees-Red Sox seat are fading fast.
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Some 100,000 tickets for dates in Manchester and London sell out in 90 minutes.
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By Margarita Bauza, Detroit Free Press  May 25--Greektown Casino's computers went down early this afternoon, disrupting service to customers, said spokesman Roger Martin.  "People were inconvenienced for about 30 to 45 minutes," Martin said. "The computers are back up.