TNOW.com I purchased 4 tickets for the Anaheim Angels and was charged 40.00 ea. charged a 40.00 serivce charge & tickets say 22.00 ea. Crystal Lake Illinois

Brokers and other individuals have access to the presale, which happens on Thursday before the tickets go on sale to the public. The brokers will snap up all of the premium floor seats and mark them up for resale for what they think the market will bear. Fortunately, I do business with a great broker who gets me great seats, but isn't too greedy. Personally, I don't think the presales should be allowed as it doesn't give the public fair opportunity to get premium seating.

One good thing about the "legal scalpers" as opposed to the scalper on the street..you have credit card protection if something goes wrong.

Brokers and other individuals have access to the presale, which happens on Thursday before the tickets go on sale to the public. The brokers will snap up all of the premium floor seats and mark them up for resale for what they think the market will bear. Fortunately, I do business with a great broker who gets me great seats, but isn't too greedy. Personally, I don't think the presales should be allowed as it doesn't give the public fair opportunity to get premium seating.

One good thing about the "legal scalpers" as opposed to the scalper on the street..you have credit card protection if something goes wrong.

Brokers and other individuals have access to the presale, which happens on Thursday before the tickets go on sale to the public. The brokers will snap up all of the premium floor seats and mark them up for resale for what they think the market will bear. Fortunately, I do business with a great broker who gets me great seats, but isn't too greedy. Personally, I don't think the presales should be allowed as it doesn't give the public fair opportunity to get premium seating.

One good thing about the "legal scalpers" as opposed to the scalper on the street..you have credit card protection if something goes wrong.

Alot of those companies give free tickets to the politicians. They then write the laws in such a way that it is illegal for you and I to go down and buy tickets and sell them. These ripoff companies pay kids to go down and stand in line for hours and days to buy the maximum number of the most expensive tickets so they can scalp them on line. You wonder why tickets to big events are sold out in 10 or 15 minutes. Kind of makes you wonder.

The only place you would pay face value (plus shipping) is from Tickets.com or Ticketmaster. The brokers buy lots of tickets and sell the premium seats at sometimes 200-500% markup, depending on the event. That was not really a high markup compared to most. I've paid several hundred dollars for $200 face value tickets..the brokers get what the market will pay.

With baseball, basketball and other sporting events, season ticket holders will consign or sell tickets they don't plan to use to the brokers, who will then mark them up. We have season Diamond Level A's tickets and for some games, we have seen them listed for more than $400 each. Best time to get tickets for games not apt to sell out is a couple of days before..the prices are down and you can usually save by picking them up at Will-Call.