More than 1,500 fans flew in from Italy, thanks to scalped tickets.

Why pay several hundred dollars for a scalped ticket when the hand of a willing bouncer might be greased for only 50?

(He could not return me to my original seats because purchasing scalped tickets is legal in California).

One possibility is that the cost to the consumer has not actually increased because scalped tickets render the list price irrelevant.

I sent out many e-mails searching for a scalped ticket to a Michigan football game.

Having agreed to buy a scalped ticket, you justify stiffing the scalper for scalping.

The scalped tickets presumably came from the hundreds distributed free to people in the Government.

It is hard to make a case, they say, against people on the inside to cut off the flood of scalped tickets at the source.

Buying scalped tickets is permitted, but selling them is not.

Tickets were in high demand for the game, withs tens of thousands of fans from both teams attending, many using scalped tickets to gain entry.