http://www.showmedaily.org/2010/08/free-market-field-trip.html Advancing liberty with responsibility by promoting market solutions for Missouri public policy Thu, 24 May 2012 16:17:46 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.showmedaily.org/2010/08/free-market-field-trip.html/comment-page-1#comment-7764 vroman Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:26:20 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=21693#comment-7764 You also have to consider your opportunity cost of wandering around downtown for X hours. The arbitrage grind is an option, but as you discovered, time consuming and tightly competitive. you can minimize the legwork by guessing the market ahead of time and either paying box office prices for high demand games ahead of time, or locating season ticket/corporate holders in advance, and lowballing them on low demand games. In high school, I scalped concert tickets. The challenge was to judge which shows would sell out, and then dumping all available capital into face value tickets and doubling up, or better. You also have to consider your opportunity cost of wandering around downtown for X hours. The arbitrage grind is an option, but as you discovered, time consuming and tightly competitive. you can minimize the legwork by guessing the market ahead of time and either paying box office prices for high demand games ahead of time, or locating season ticket/corporate holders in advance, and lowballing them on low demand games.
In high school, I scalped concert tickets. The challenge was to judge which shows would sell out, and then dumping all available capital into face value tickets and doubling up, or better.

]]> http://www.showmedaily.org/2010/08/free-market-field-trip.html/comment-page-1#comment-7719 jake Voss Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:55:01 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=21693#comment-7719 Jealous. Jealous.

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