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Your Ticket to Part-Time Scalping: 10 Tips from the Experts
10:00AM 8/11/2011
In a shaky economy, you might be tempted to moonlight as a scalper for extra cash. Brittany Menard, author of "The Ticket Broker Guide," offers advice on how to do it right. Here's what you need to know to conquer the ticket trade part time.
Between the growing secondary market (i.e. online scalping sites) and the burning desire of baseball teams to lure fans back into the stadiums, it's easier than ever to catch some major league bargains. DailyFinance has your guide to where the deals are.
The owners of Boston's Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins recently held a panel to discuss ways to cut ticket prices for the average fan -- and came up with virtually nothing. So DailyFinance asked experts and fans for creative ways to push ticket prices down. Here are the 10 best we heard.
New York Yankees Mo-Saver half-price tickets are no steal
2:30PM 8/19/2010
Those looking to score dirt-cheap tickets at the Yankees' new same-day sale of half-off seats in the Times Square Modell's might get shut out. Fans on Thursday morning were shocked to discover that the least expensive pair of seats available for the Yankees-Tigers game in the afternoon were $250,...
StubHub has your cheap baseball tickets
4:00PM 2/11/2010
With snow pelting my window, my thoughts turned to buying cheap Major League Baseball regular-season tickets. Bless my discount-minded and proactive self: I found incredible deals at StubHub, the MLB-partnered marketplace. Teams have not made single-game seats available on their websites, so you...
In the world of professional sports, rising ticket prices is the norm.
But in a recession, keeping ticket prices the same for a year is news.
The New York Yankees announced that prices for 84% of their tickets, or 41,928 seats, will remain the same in 2010 from 2009.
Fans will see 13% of the...
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