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Buying tickets? How to play the game.
Looking to rock out with Santana? We were. But when we tried to buy tickets for the band's two gigs at the Fillmore, in San Francisco, just 72 hours after they went on sale to the general public, they were sold out. At the same time, however, we found hundreds of tickets for $79 to $451 above the $89.50 face value on Web sites.
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Hey, that sounds like scalping. But today's scalpers aren't guys in trench coats hissing at passersby outside a ticket booth. (In fact, many venues still don't permit second-hand selling near the box office.) Instead, they're big companies such as StubHub, TicketsNow, Razor-Gator, TicketLiquidator, and ...
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