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Many resellers are small-time entrepreneurs who might take offense at the term "scalper" because they pick up a handful of extra seats to offset the cost of their own. Annual ticket auctions are growing more than 50% a year at eBay, the electronic storefront for thousands of sellers, spokesman Dean Jutilla says.
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According to a Wall Street Journal article, a recent Hannah Montana concert, the retail price of a ticket was $63, but were being sold for an average of $237. For some shows, according to the New York Times, ... Ticketmaster said that for some shows, software "bots" were responsible for as much as 80% of all ticket requests...
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spectrum.ieee.org/blog/computing/it/riskfactor/software...
spectrum.ieee.org/blog/computing/it/riskfactor/softwaresupported_ticket_scalp
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Ticketmaster has filed suit in U.S. Federal District Court in Los Angeles against a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, software company that it claims developed software for ticket brokers that illegally "allows them to cut in line", said Ticketmaster vice president Joe Freeman.
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www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/12/montana.tickets/
www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/12/montana.tickets/
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www.ticketbrokertoday.com/
www.ticketbrokertoday.com/
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Tips for ticket-buyers ... “These companies are able to employ inappropriate means, using sophisticated software, to hoard all the tickets to high-demand events and then turn around and sell them at grossly inflated prices,” the attorney general said.
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www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/10/mo_scalpers.html
www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/10/mo_scalpers.html
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Microsoft Judge Negates Alcatel-Lucent MP3 Patent Win — Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, ... Viagogo invades US online ticket-scalping market — Some entrepreneurs are bold, or foolhardy, depending how you look at it. — Eric Baker, co-founder of online ticket scalper StubHub,
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www.tuaw.com/2009/04/28/wwdc-09-is-a-sellout-time-to-ca...
www.tuaw.com/2009/04/28/wwdc-09-is-a-sellout-time-to-call-your-ticket-scalper/
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Last year, Ticketmaster sued Pittsburgh-based RMG Technologies Inc. for creating software that allowed its users to gain access to tickets via the Internet much more quickly than average customers of Ticketmaster.com. ... 'The BOSS ACT rewrites rules for concert ticket sales'
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www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/06/ticketmaster_wi....
www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/06/ticketmaster_wi.html
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Just in time for the Super Bowl and ahead of IAC’s breakup, Ticketmaster has struck a deal to acquire online ticket scalper TicketsNow for $265 million. ... I don’t trust ticket master at all! I fill in the password so fast, and sometimes I get an error and then no tickets. The software must be flawed!
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www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/15/ticketmaster-buys-online-...
www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/15/ticketmaster-buys-online-scalper-ticketsnow-for-265-million/
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