Scalpers Sell Athens Tickets at Face Value
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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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Latest estimates of the costs of hosting the Athens Olympics put them at up to $10bn - a huge amount for a small country like Greece, once the poorest in the EU.
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Over 420,000 tickets sold for Pan American Games    RIO DE JANEIRO, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Over 420,000 tickets have been sold for the Rio de Janeiro 2007 Pan American games' competitions, opening and closing ceremonies, the organizing committee said on Friday.
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Beijing Olympic Games organizers allocated just one-quarter of 1.8 million tickets available in the latest lottery sale of seats, officials said on Sunday, creating a new ticketing headache for the event.
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New technology and a faceless distribution network over the Internet are contributing to a rising number of counterfeit tickets to sports events and concerts.
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By Paul Vigna, Philadelphia Daily News  Sep. 13--A number of Eagles standing-room tickets got up and took a seat in a couple of dozen Web sites yesterday, rankling team officials already sensitive about tie-ins to the secondary market.
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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 opened on Tuesday morning.
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Ticket prices at the 2008 Beijing Olympics will range from $3.82 to $638 when they go on sale next year.
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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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Internet auction sites exploit fans by allowing touts to sell tickets at high prices, an MPs' report is expected to say.
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ATHENS, Greece -- The closing ceremony of the Athens Games is underway in front of a crowd of 75,000 at the Olympic Stadium. The arena, which has been the main venue for the sporting carnival for the past
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The InterActiveCorp subsidiary beats scalpers at their own game.
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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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Teams are controlling the resale market for their tickets to cut down on counterfeiting and the high prices demanded by scalpers.
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MEGA MILLIONS, Sept. 16  /PRNewswire/ -- One ticket has won it all. Somewhere there is a ticket worth an estimated $163 million.  That ticket, which was purchased in Bainbridge, Georgia, matched all six numbers in the September 15, 2006 Mega Millions drawing.
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Special lottery games have already raised Â£150m for the 2012 London Olympics, organisers have said.
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BEIJING -- Ticket prices at the 2008 Beijing Olympics will range from $3.82 to $638 when they go on sale next year.