Thursday, October 11, 2007

olypi-gouging

planning on catching some men's hockey action at the vancouver 2010 olympics? got an extra grand lying around? that's right folks! it's going to cost up to $775 (not accounting for taxes or inflated scalpers' prices) to catch the men's gold medal hockey game in person! sitting behind a support column with your back against the outer wall of the arena for the same game will cost you 350 buckaroos!

the ticket prices for the 2010 games were announced today and you better start saving now!
officials say that tickets are priced to ensure people in all income brackets can see some olympic events... riiiggghhhttt... of course the most in-demand events will cost you a pretty penny and even the opening events ($175 - $1100) will cost you at least a arm if not a leg...

however, for other events (the boring ones that no one really cares about), there are 100,000 tickets for $25 and half will purportedly cost $100 or less... how about tickets for biathlon at turn 10? no, no, you don't get to see any of the shooting; you just get to see them swoosh by... ice dancing anyone?

to be nice, the vancouver organizing committee will be giving away 50,000 tickets (again, probably for the boring events no one cares about) to those less fortunate. so if you're rich, go ahead! buy as many tickets as you want! if you're poor, hold your hand out for the prospect of free tickets - hey, maybe you can even scalp them! if you're in between, shame... i guess you won't be going.

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