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&#39; homecoming may also be remembered as the Games that redefined a ticket scalper&#39;s job.
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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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Street hawkers are history. Savvy resellers use the web to turn tickets into cash. By Steve Knopper from Wired magazine.
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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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ATHENS -- Makis Yerassimakis, a Greek Gypsy who has spent a lifetime on society's margins, thought he could join the rest of Greece and cash in on the Olympics. So last Friday, he took about $600 worth of Greek flag trinkets to sell outside the opening ceremony.
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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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Chinese sport fans have embraced an online lottery for tickets to theÂ 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
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Open your wallets, Yankees fans. New York scalpers can now legally sell tickets to the highest bidder without fear of getting pinched.
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Description: In the weeks leading up to the Olympic games in Athens, hotels were expecting huge crowds to flood the city. Lagging ticket sales at Olympic venues seem to have trickled into the hotel business as well, as crowds have failed to show up as ...
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Seeking to enforce their policy prohibiting ticket resales, the New England Patriots have obtained the names of 13,000 people who sold or bought the team's tickets using the online site StubHub Inc.
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Tickets go on sale for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy on Wednesday amid the now-customary power struggles and financial impropriety among organizers.
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The bill arrived for the Athens Olympics on Friday &#151; about &#36;11.6 billion, and it might climb higher. The tally announced by the government was almost double the original estimate, making the games by far the most expensive in Olympic history. The 2000 Sydney Games cost &#36;1.5 billion and the 1996 Atlanta Games &#36;1.72 billion.
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The final cost of the Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games, at $11.6 billion, was $3.1 billion more than originally estimated. But according to Finance Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis, the figure does not include
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More than Â£100million profit is expected to be made from staging the 2012 Olympic Games in London, it has been claimed. The estimate forms part of the London 2012 bid book handed into the International Olympic Committee on Monday.
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The Greek government says  this year's Olympic Games in Athens cost 8.8bn euros  -  almost double the original estimate.
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Some 100,000 tickets for dates in Manchester and London sell out in 90 minutes.
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Tens of millions of dollars pouring into Olympic bid campaigns. PR companies, lobbyists and spin doctors working frantically. Rumors of dirty tricks swirling behind the scenes.