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Yet again in another shameful incident, the scalpers continue with their filthy and greedy act of selling all the reserved seating tickets for the CWS championship at an unaffordable price. Thousands of Mississippi State fans for the CWS championship series were finding it not only difficult but also impossible to find reserved seats. Fans was being offered reserved seat tickets by scalpers at a price range starting from $100 and there were some greedy scalpers that were found selling tickets at a massive amount of $600 when the actual amount of the reserved seats were only $60. The fans were left out with no choice but to purchase the General Admission seats that were available at $11 or be ready to shell out huge amounts that the scalpers were asking. A ticket scalper who has been selling tickets at the CWS since 1989 told The World-Herald that "Early on, finding reserved seating was easy, Now I haven't come across too many." he said. A fan from Atlanta, said a scalper on Tuesday offered to sell him a ticket for $100, but fortunately he had already purchased it a week before for $60. In another instance an MSU fan from Starkville, said a scalper attempted to sell him a reserved seat for $600. He decided to buy an $11 general admission ticket instead. "This is not what the CWS is about," said Cari Tokheim owner of the Dugout "We want people to enjoy their stay at Omaha and have a great time enjoying the event instead of them having a negative feedback about us." Scalpers and secondary ticketing companies are taking a risk when they buy large quantities of tickets and there is always a chance of failing to resell and losing money. If we start boycotting these companies and individuals, they will stop. It might take some time, we might miss some of our favorite artist's performances but gradually we will have a scalping free ticketing industry. Many sports team have fan websites on the internet and these are additional platform for ticket brokers. Initially they track the fan websites and after analyzing, they buy tickets to games they believe might be the great games later in the season or when the demand will be high. Later, they sell these tickets to desperate sports fans. In the past, fans usually traded their tickets to their friends or some other fans if they have genuine problem and were not able to attend the game and that too at face value or sometimes slightly below, but now with the growth of secondary ticketing companies and ticket scalpers, every fan lists his/her tickets on a secondary ticketing website and try to sell above face value. One question that comes to my mind while celebrating Independence Day is that, are we really independent from scalpers?
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