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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScalpers 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
GP6971
(31,212 posts)but bad judgment on this one.
WhiteTara
(29,722 posts)they cancelled the local party.
BeyondGeography
(39,380 posts)Try "ever."
NBachers
(17,142 posts)Can't even peddle them to the White Supremacists.
Has he tried the Wall of Meat?
eppur_se_muova
(36,290 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)The story said he bought them from a gun nut.