{"id":353475,"date":"2010-02-23T11:35:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knowledgeproblem.com\/?p=6490"},"modified":"2010-02-23T11:35:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:35:40","slug":"tickets-into-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/353475","title":{"rendered":"Tickets into the olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Michael Giberson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ticket scalping, like price gouging, is a usually pro-social market activity that is stuck with a pejorative name.\u00a0 At <em>Swifter, Higher,<\/em> sportswriter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swifterhigher.com\/2010\/02\/whos-selling-whos-buying.php\">Kyle Whelliston writes about his experience picking up a cheap ticket into the first hockey game<\/a> of the Vancouver Olympics.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t as easy as he hoped, but at a cost of missing the first few minutes of action he was able to get a price he liked.<\/p>\n<p>What surprised me in the article was how well organized the gray-market activity was. I wonder whether the Olympics would increase or decrease overall ticket revenue by facilitating an active secondary market (assuming a secondary market was legal in the host country).<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/19\/organized-ticket-scalping\/\"><em>Freakonomics<\/em><\/a> blog.)<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/knowledgeproblem.wordpress.com\/6490\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/knowledgeproblem.wordpress.com\/6490\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/knowledgeproblem.wordpress.com\/6490\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/knowledgeproblem.wordpress.com\/6490\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/knowledgeproblem.wordpress.com\/6490\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/knowledgeproblem.wordpress.com\/6490\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/knowledgeproblem.wordpress.com\/6490\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/knowledgeproblem.wordpress.com\/6490\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/knowledgeproblem.wordpress.com\/6490\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/knowledgeproblem.wordpress.com\/6490\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=knowledgeproblem.com&#038;blog=5880275&#038;post=6490&#038;subd=knowledgeproblem&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Giberson Ticket scalping, like price gouging, is a usually pro-social market activity that is stuck with a pejorative name.\u00a0 At Swifter, Higher, sportswriter Kyle Whelliston writes about his experience picking up a cheap ticket into the first hockey game of the Vancouver Olympics.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t as easy as he hoped, but at a cost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}