'Nobody wants to buy them': Frustrated scalpers losing big money trying to sell inauguration tickets

[DonViejo]

ERIN CORBETT
16 JAN 2017 AT 17:20 ET

With just four days left until President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, scalpers are rushing to sell the remainder of their inauguration tickets and they’re having a hard time doing so, the New York Daily News reports.

Yossi Rosenberg, a 36-year-old Democrat who voted for Hillary Clinton, told the outlet that he had purchased two tickets to Friday’s inauguration from a woman in Westchester County who sold them for $700. Rosenberg thought he would be able to sell them on the secondary market for at least double the price, but the task has proven difficult.

“Nobody wants to buy them,” he said. “It looks like I’m stuck with them, I might even have to go.” Rosenberg purchased the tickets thinking they would be “in demand.” He told the Daily News, “I got offers before I got them, but then I get them and everybody balked.”

After receiving no interest in the tickets, Rosenberg advertised the tickets on white supremacist websites, according to the Daily News. There was no interest there either.

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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/betting-website-gives-trump-4-1-odds-of-being-impeached-within-six-months/

[Thinkingabout]

1. Refuse to pay for the tickets, this would be the Trump way.

[Different Drummer]

2. ...

[pscot]

3. SAD

nobody profits off Trump but Trump.

[KittyWampus]

16. I think comedians will have a rich harvest off his arrogance and stupidity.

[WinstonSmith4740]

23. I couldn't agree more.

Personally, I'm thinking about investing in popcorn,

[physioex]

28. I am going with Impermeable Mattress Liners. EOM

[Rex]

4. .

[coco22]

39. I was talking about old cartoons with a friend of mine..

we couldn't remember this dogs name or the name of the cartoon,what is it?

[dflprincess]

41. Was it Muttley?

I just loved his laugh.

[A HERETIC I AM]

46. Yes it was Muttley.

He was Dick Dastardly's sidekick

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muttley

[Lucinda]

49. Muttley

[madokie]

5. Only fools go to a tRump ignorguration

[dalton99a]

6. OVERRATED.

[lpbk2713]

8. Bad investment.

As is anything else associated with Trump.

[LuvLoogie]

9. I'm glad that fool got burned. Shame on him for trying to profit on America's misfortune.

Guys like him are why we lose.

[BainsBane]

13. He voted for Clinton

So guys like him are not why we lose.

[LuvLoogie]

19. Karma. I'm glad he had 1400 dollars to blow.

[NCjack]

10. SO SAD

[rug]

11. I'd like to see Yossi Rosenberg's ad on white supremacist websites.

[hibbing]

15. No doubt n/t

[Maru Kitteh]

43. Right? That was my first thought. If he put a Pepe logo next to his name he

could probably get away with it though. They would probably just think he was being ironic.

[Gothmog]

12. Boo Hoo

[raccoon]

14. Bwaaaaaa....nt

[TeamPooka]

17. Only a fool buys tix to an event that has headlines everyday for who is boycotting it. nt

[dionysus]

25. Or, a trump fan with cash... yeah, you're right, fools, lol

[Mc Mike]

18. There are ads for free tickets to the biggest loser's inauguration on the site.

What a miserable failure he is, in every way. The 'great showman', can't get anyone to come see his biggest show without paying them.

Par for the course, in terms of repug 'leadership' offerings.

[Ruby the Liberal]

20. He paid $700? Trump has been offering them for free since the 13th.

https://www.58pic2017.org/reserve-your-tickets/

[HipChick]

34. I should reserve a few hundred or so..

none of my family have any intent on attending though..

[Ruby the Liberal]

37. LOL!

But then you are feeding right into Breitbart's hands. You KNOW they have queued up arial shots from 2009 to post as Drumpf's "crowd".

[Metro135]

21. The President Nobody Wants

Sad

[mcar]

22. Perfect!

[TheCowsCameHome]

24. Think of it as a bad investment, Yossi.

Next time, do your homework. You're 0 for2.

[jmowreader]

26. Here's the funny part of this whole thing

If you go to the ignoration website, the "tickets" you can get for free are commemorative and "suitable for framing." (Preferably in a frame styled to look like prison bars.) You need no tickets to get into the ignoration and the parade.

[4139]

27. The tickets are free, whomever sold them to Yossi cashed in!

[LongTomH]

29. This is likely to be the response to The Donald's Inaugural Speech.......

[AllaN01Bear]

30. hem

[Best_man23]

31. Are you Familiar With the "Broken Windshield Game" Concept, Yossi?

This was a term coined by sports handicapper Pete Axthelm back in the 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Axthelm

The "broken windshield game" was this...take two tickets to a particular game between two really poor teams (we'll go with 2016 Cleveland Browns vs San Francisco 49ers) and you put them on the dashboard of a car located in the parking lot of the stadium where the game is going to be played.

You then leave the car for a few hours. When you come back, the windshield will be broken and FOUR MORE tickets will be sitting on the dashboard next to the two tickets you put there.

Yossi, you have tickets to a "Broken Windshield Inauguration". Feel free to park a car in DC and place those two tickets on the dashboard. You'll soon have more that you won't be able to sell.

[tclambert]

32. Hey, they say it's gonna be a great show. I hear they're gonna have mimes.

These mimes won't try to get out of the invisible box, though. They will wanna stay in.

[idahoblue]

33. Inauguration tickets are free.

Is this fake news?

[sarcasmo]

35. Ha. It's like the dummy who couldn't sell all the Hatchimals. LMFAO.

[mwooldri]

36. They didn't read DU.

There's been ads here offering free inauguration tickets.

[Cha]

38. Poor scalpers!

[dflprincess]

40. Makes me think of the clerk at Macy's

who, when I was coat shopping, tried to push an Ivanka Trump number on me and, when I gave her "a look", said "We can't give those away." (and, to be honest, it was not a bad looking coat, but I was heartened to hear people weren't buying - and this was before the election.)

[calimary]

48. Beautiful!!!

I noticed a lot of her stuff is of the "knockoff" variety - a cheaper version of some haute couture item, changed ever so slightly to avoid accusations of outright plagiarism.

There was a side-by-side comparison I once saw of a pair of high-heeled sandals that were almost-but-not-quite identical to a really high-end pair, but the tassels on the end of the ankle laces was ever-so-slightly smaller than on the pricey pair. As I recall, it was a magazine feature on "how to get the haute couture look for less".

[Grammy23]

58. Saw several Ivanka handbags for sale at TJ Maxx a few weeks ago.

[volstork]

42. All I can say is:

[Takket]

44. no one shows up at the stadium to see a losing team

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[dixiegrrrrl]

45. "No interest at white supremacist websites....."

For some reason that is striking me as hysterically funny
and very very ironic.

You know you've gone ever so low when the neo nazis don't want to go the installation of one of their own.

[calimary]

47. Link is here:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/scalpers-losing-money-tickets-trump-inauguration-article-1.2947620?utm_content=buffere0167&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw

But the Raw Story item about the betting on IMPEACHMENT is sweet!

[yortsed snacilbuper]

50. Too bad,

sue trump.

[Doreen]

51. I am just plain mean because I am laughing at them.

I hear they are expecting 7,000 inauguration attendees and 3,000 protesters. I would laugh my ass off if the numbers got turned around and they got 3,000 attendees and 7,000 protesters. In my wicked way I am hoping for that...sweet revenge.

[Pachamama]

52. Toilet Paper...

.... That's all those tickets are good for...

[MFM008]

53. lol

[DeminPennswoods]

54. Inaguration is free, but events need tix

I was at Clinton's 1992 inauguration. Anyone can go and stand on the Capitol grounds to see the ceremony and then stay for the parade, but you need tickets for the indoor events. I'm sure that's what this guy bought and now can't unload.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

56. The tickets referred to here are marked,"Admit bearer to Union Square of Capitol,"

and, "This ticket does not admit to Capital Building." If these tickets are legit, entry to certain outdoor areas is restricted to those with tickets. Probably given out for free, but being scalped, or attempted anyway.

There's a high res image at the link below (I guess DU has restrictions on large image files displaying in posts, so you'll have to click to see it.)
http://www.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2947618.1484590638!/img/httpImage/image.jpg

[DeminPennswoods]

57. Yes, need tickets to get close

In 92 I was an early arrivee and was near the front of the regular crowd, but there was snowfencing/bike racks up separating the open viewing area and the area much closer to the ceremony. You needed to have tickets to get to the really good seats/views.

[Sid Fishes]

55. Awww!