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RandySF

(59,238 posts)
Mon Jan 16, 2017, 11:43 PM Jan 2017

Scalpers taking losses on tickets to Trump inauguration as interest wanes.

Donald Trump will take office as one of the most unpopular President-elects in recent history — and even scalpers are feeling the pain.

Some flippers, who acquired tickets to Trump's inauguration with the intent of reselling them on the secondary market, are striking out in their efforts to peddle them and are now looking at some relatively "yuge" losses.

Yossi Rosenberg, 36, of upper Manhattan, told the Daily News he bought a pair of tickets to Friday's Washington, D.C. event from a woman in Westchester County for $700, thinking he could flip them for at least twice as much.

But nobody's biting.

"Nobody wants to buy them," Rosenberg told The News. "It looks like I'm stuck with them, I might even have to go."

Rosenberg, who works in software sales, said he occasionally scalps tickets to make a little extra dough and figured, given the wealth of some of Trump's prominent Republican supporters, he'd receive some interest.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/scalpers-losing-money-tickets-trump-inauguration-article-1.2947620

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Scalpers taking losses on tickets to Trump inauguration as interest wanes. (Original Post) RandySF Jan 2017 OP
Probably a good person at heart GP6971 Jan 2017 #1
There is so little interest in his ignoration that in Arkansas WhiteTara Jan 2017 #2
Recent history? BeyondGeography Jan 2017 #3
Feel the pain of the ticket flippers. NBachers Jan 2017 #4
"I might even have to go." OH THE HUMANITY !! eppur_se_muova Jan 2017 #5
He got suckered by a gun nut DeminPennswoods Jan 2017 #6

NBachers

(17,142 posts)
4. Feel the pain of the ticket flippers.
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 02:54 AM
Jan 2017

Can't even peddle them to the White Supremacists.

Has he tried the Wall of Meat?

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