{"id":26,"date":"2006-04-17T17:41:20","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T22:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/04\/17\/my-career-as-a-scalper\/"},"modified":"2006-04-17T17:41:20","modified_gmt":"2006-04-17T22:41:20","slug":"my-career-as-a-scalper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/04\/17\/my-career-as-a-scalper\/","title":{"rendered":"My Career as a Scalper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My career as a scapler started &#8211; and probably finished &#8211; this past weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 I found myself in front of the 9:30 Club with two extra UB40 tickets (unexpected last minute bails).\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d tell you to stop snickering, but maybe you aren&#8217;t &#8211; the show was sold out, so apparently there are a number of fans around.\u00c2\u00a0 I was just about to head inside when I heard someone lamenting that there weren&#8217;t any scaplers out there, and that they were about to head home.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, the smart thing to do was turn around and offer the ticket for twice the face value, right?\u00c2\u00a0 Probably.\u00c2\u00a0 I, on the other hand, turned and offered a ticket at face value.\u00c2\u00a0 Sold! in a nanosecond.\u00c2\u00a0 This transaction (replete with me fumbling around with a pocket full of cash on V St.) brought at least three people rushing over to me to buy any remaining tickets.\u00c2\u00a0 A classic marketplace, right?\u00c2\u00a0 Clearly time for a bit of supply-side pricing pressure.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, I just picked the most excited looking person and offered him the ticket at face value, since I couldn&#8217;t very well charge him more than I had the previous purchaser, no?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve much of a future in scapling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My career as a scapler started &#8211; and probably finished &#8211; this past weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 I found myself in front of the 9:30 Club with two extra UB40 tickets (unexpected last minute bails).\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d tell you to stop snickering, but maybe you aren&#8217;t &#8211; the show was sold out, so apparently there are a number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}