Scalpers are taking losses on re-selling tickets to Trump's inauguration: "Nobody wants to buy them.

[kpete]

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Donald Trump will take office as one of the most unpopular President-elects in recent history — and even scalpers may feel the pain.

Some flippers, who acquired tickets to Trump's inauguration with the intent of reselling them on the secondary market, are striking out in their efforts to peddle them and are now looking at some relatively "yuge" losses.

Yossi Rosenberg, 36, of upper Manhattan, told the Daily News he bought a pair of tickets to Friday's Washington, D.C. event from a woman in Westchester County for $700, thinking he could flip them for at least twice as much.

But nobody's biting.

"Nobody wants to buy them," Rosenberg told The News. "It looks like I'm stuck with them, I might even have to go."

more:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/scalpers-losing-money-tickets-trump-inauguration-article-1.2947620

[Vinca]

1. Didn't Trump offer free tickets yesterday?

With big draws like Cowboy Troy, who can resist????

[no_hypocrisy]

2. And because ticket scalping is illegal, they can't take off the loss from their taxes.

[HoneyBadger]

3. I see tickets on StubHub

For the Washingtonian Inaugural Ball