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August 14, 2016 07:07 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/_A8L_bFiPrQ/scalpers-drive-harry-potter-pl.html
Scalpers drive Harry Potter play prices from 140 to 8,327
What do you get when you combine fantastic wealth-inequality with winner-take-all entertainment economics and high-speed trading algorithms? The Viagogo marketplace, where botmasters who've harvested every available ticket for the new Harry Potter play, Harry Potter & the Cursed Child are auctioning them off to the war-criminals and financiers who've colonized London since the Blair years -- with Viagogo trousering a healthy 1,772.53 transaction fee on each ticket. (more…)
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