Resource Tycoon Reborn
Chapter four hundred and forty-eight sky-high ticket
Chapter 448: Sky-high Price Tickets
"Hey, look, someone has passed by!" Chai Jingyu, who was walking arm in arm with Zhao Ya and Feng Qian, whispered to them.
Sure enough, as she said, a man whose age was half-covered by the hood of his down jacket came over and started talking to the young man holding up the banknotes.
"That person must be a patchwork guy!" Chai Jingyu said with a smile.
"Patchwork?" Jiang Leshan said strangely. He had never heard of this word before.
"It's what you call scalpers. In the old saying in the capital, they're called patchworkers!" Liu Yong said with a smile.
"This is quite an experience! This is the first time I've heard that people in the capital call this patchwork?" Jiang Leshan smiled and said, "Patchwork... this word is quite appropriate!"
"Only the old people in the capital know that. Now, hey, it's generally called speculation!" Fang Mingyuan said with a smile, "But usually, no one cares about it!"
"Well, the same is true here in Shanghai." Jiang Leshan nodded. Although everyone knew that this was not in line with the national policy, it was banned repeatedly.
"Huh? Look, that young man seems to have failed to buy it?" Zhao Ya pointed at the two people and lowered her voice.
Everyone looked in the direction of her finger. Sure enough, as she said, the man had turned and walked away. The young man was still standing there waving the banknotes and continuing to shout. "You can't even buy it for one hundred and fifty."
Aren't these people too greedy?" Jiang Leshan couldn't help blurting out.
Liu Yong shook his head slightly in disapproval. Just as he was about to speak, Fang Mingyuan shook his head slightly, and Liu Yong swallowed what he wanted to say.
The emergence of scalpers is not a social phenomenon unique to China. In developed countries in the United Kingdom and the United States, you can watch every major sports event or superstar concert outside the stadium or at the concert venue.
See those foreign scalpers. Although most developed countries have laws strictly prohibiting vote scalping, scalpers still continue to prohibit it.
Moreover, ticket sellers who resold train tickets have also appeared in the United States. However, that was at the end of the 19th century and the early 20th century. The American scalpers at that time had a very popular name - ticket brokers.
This is because the number of low-price train tickets at that time was far lower than the market demand, and many people rushed to buy them in advance and then resold them at high prices. Due to the imperfect laws at the time, many real ticket buyers had nowhere to appeal, and many conflicts occurred.
Case. This point, it seems, is similar to the difficulty of getting train tickets in China.
It was only because the personal vehicle ownership rate in the United States increased year by year, people generally chose to drive for short distances, and fly for long distances. People paid less and less attention to trains, and the attendance rate kept hitting new lows, so the ticket seller industry declined.
However, train tickets have fallen out of the sight of these ticket brokers, and these people have turned their attention to other fields. As professionals who deal with tickets, ordinary people are naturally not their opponents. Tickets for concerts or popular sports events often cost a lot of money.
From the moment it is put on sale, within a few minutes, it will be sold out by these people. Then it will be resold at five to ten times the price.
For this reason, many state governments in the United States have even declared ticket scalping illegal. It is said that Washington State passed a bill prohibiting the resale of tickets for a price that exceeds the ticket price by five dollars.
Another example is the United Kingdom, another developed country. The British government’s crackdown on scalpers is one of the strictest in Western countries. According to British law, reselling football tickets is a crime. Therefore, many fans rarely buy tickets if they have not purchased them in advance.
It is possible to buy tickets before the game through scalpers outside the stadium.
In the next century, after iPhone 4 was launched in the UK, there were always long queues of people outside Apple stores, but many of them were "errands" - they could get dozens of pounds for every iPhone 4 they bought.
Commission. It can be seen from this that as long as something is not fully supplied, it is impossible to eliminate scalpers!
"I think that if that person queued up and bought the ticket by himself, it would be normal not to sell it to him at this price!" Chai Jingyu said thoughtfully, "Now each person is only allowed to buy two tickets at the ticket office of the cinema.
, and you have to wait in line for a long time. There is also a possibility that by the time you get to the window, the tickets for the show you want are no longer available! If all these are included in the cost, I don’t think it’s 150 yuan.
high!"
Jiang Leshan was startled for a moment. He calmed down and thought about it, and had to admit that Chai Jingyu was right.
"Hey, isn't that Liu Yuyan?" Liu Yong suddenly patted Fang Mingyuan on the shoulder and pointed not far away. Looking in the direction he pointed, he saw Liu Yuyan and two girls standing there.
Not far from the ticket office, I was waiting anxiously.
"Yuyan, you said that if the nightclub at eight o'clock in the evening is gone and there is only the nightclub in Tongxiao, what will you do?" A girl with a round face and dots of freckles standing next to Liu Yuyan stamped her feet.
He stood on his feet and said anxiously.
"Then today is all for nothing! It's already three or four o'clock at night after watching the movie, and there are no buses. And the doors of the dormitory building must be closed!" Before Liu Yuyan could say anything, another woman next to her
The child has already spoken.
Liu Yuyan lightly tapped her feet, not only because of the cold, but also because her feet were very tired after standing here for a long time. This time, the two roommates in their dormitory went out to watch a movie with their boyfriend.
I wanted to pull her. She was also curious about "Titanic" and wanted to know what the movie would look like after spending more than a billion dollars, so she agreed.
Finally, when everyone gathered together, she discovered that the other party actually had a solitary boy, so they just made three couples.
But none of them expected that when a group of them arrived, they found that the number of people queuing up to buy tickets in front of the cinema was far beyond their imagination! They originally wanted to watch the 1:30 pm movie, but they had arrived early
It took four hours to get here, so there should be no problem. But when I got here, I saw that the queue in front of the ticket gate was nearly a kilometer long! If I hadn’t found out later, many of the people in the queue were
They came to buy movie tickets for the next few days in advance, and they were ready to go back home.
The six of them took turns to line up, and it turned out that they have been queuing up until now. Not to mention the 1:30 movie that will start soon, there are no tickets for the 5 p.m. movie. They can only pray now.
, God gave face and allowed them to buy the one after eight o'clock.
Although there were so many people watching the movie, the person in charge of the cinema would not let go of this opportunity to make a lot of money and opened a night show. However, the show only started at twelve o'clock in the evening, and it was already three o'clock in the morning after watching it.
There was too much, and there was not even a place to stay. Moreover, Liu Yuyan could be said to have been bitten by a snake once and was afraid of well ropes for ten years. Naturally, it was absolutely impossible for her to agree to spend the night outside. However, they just gave up and returned to school.
I feel unwilling to do so. What’s more, I’m about to face the final exam, and it’s not easy to find time to watch movies. Just listening to my classmates and friends talking about "Titanic" every day is also psychological.
a kind of torment.
"It's all Zuo Lijun. I've told him a long time ago to ask him to come and buy tickets one day in advance!" the girl with round face and freckles said angrily. Standing here is not only cold, but also very tiring. They want to find someone.
It is a place where you can rest in the lee, but all the places where you can rest near this movie theater are now so crowded that it is difficult to find a seat!
"You can't blame Xiao Zuo for this. Even if he comes, he still has to queue up. And when he comes, he can only buy two!" Liu Yuyan said softly.
"Look at that guy, he's been shouting for a long time and no one has sold him a ticket." Another girl pointed at the young man in the crowd whose voice was getting quieter and his face was getting more and more anxious.
"Whoever sold it to him is weird! It's a cold day, and you have to wait in line for so long, and you may not be able to buy it. No one wants to suffer this second time!" The freckled girl curled her lips and said, "
Isn't it just an extra eighty yuan? Who can be willing to watch "Titanic"?"
Liu Yuyan smiled bitterly in her heart. Her roommate's mother was self-employed, and her monthly pocket money was only a few hundred yuan, seventy or eighty yuan. She really looked down upon her! But in this society, people who have no money
, after all, it was still the majority. Spending three hundred yuan to watch a movie for two people, she couldn't afford that money anyway!
"I just asked the ticket sellers, and now a ticket costs at least 180 yuan!" The freckled girl lowered her voice, "If you say two consecutive tickets in a good location, it will cost more than 400 yuan!"
"Four hundred yuan! So expensive!" Both Liu Yuyan and Liu Yuyan were shocked. Even if they work in a good unit, this is almost half a month's total income!
"Yes! It's really too expensive!" the freckled girl said helplessly. If it were 150 yuan a ticket, she would be so cruel that she would buy tickets from the scalpers. But if one ticket is 200 yuan, two tickets are four.
One hundred yuan, even though she always had a loose pocket money, she felt heartbroken, let alone Liu Yuyan and the others!
While the three of them were talking, they saw a young man squeeze out of the queue at the ticket gate and hurriedly came to them.
Liu Yuyan quickly asked: "Xiao Zuo, have you bought the ticket?"
The young man shook his head and said: "The tickets for eight o'clock will be sold out soon. They asked me to come out and ask if we can watch the nightclub?"
The faces of the three girls suddenly fell down in unison, they were really afraid of what they were getting!
"What time is it? It's not even 1:30, and the tickets for eight o'clock in the evening are gone?" Jingjing, the freckled girl, said in disbelief. This cinema is also a famous large cinema in Shanghai, with nearly a thousand people inside.
A seat.
"A lot of tickets have been bought a few days ago!" Zuo Lijun said with a wry smile, "Now there are ten more people coming to us, what should we do? Should we buy a nightclub, or should we see which day is suitable in the future?
"
The three of them, Liu Yuyan, were immediately torn between buying a nightclub. They really didn’t want to be unable to go home at night, but what day next? They will start preparing for the final exam. It might not be easy for them to get time together again.
Got it!
"How many days in advance will tickets be sold at the ticket office?" Liu Yuyan asked quickly.
"Three days!" Zuo Lijun said.
"Three days!" Liu Yuyan looked at her two roommates and said awkwardly, "I have classes tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, Professor Lu and Professor Chen!"
"Black-faced Lu?" the two women said in unison.
Liu Yuyan nodded. Professor Lu is quite rigid and stubborn. He hates students who arrive late and leave early. He will also take roll call in every class! Even in a large class with hundreds of people, random checks will be carried out! Once he is found to be absent from class for no reason, he will
For one subject, you can only get a passing grade. If there are more than two absenteeism records in one semester, congratulations, you can prepare to make up the exam!
"What about Professor Chen?" Jingjing asked. She had no class the day after tomorrow.
"It's Professor Chen Nanshan! I like listening to his class very much!" Liu Yuyan's words left everyone speechless. Not to mention Liu Yuyan, they all also liked listening to Chen Nanshan's class.
"Then what should we do?" Jingjing asked anxiously. The day after tomorrow, she would also have to take Black Face Lu's class.
"Hey, girl, I have a suggestion!" A man's voice came from the side, startling several people. They turned around and saw a young man in his twenties, fourteen or five years old, with a bit of arrogance standing there.
A few steps away.
"What suggestions do you have?" Jingjing asked in surprise.
"I have two tickets here for the 5 o'clock show. You can buy the tickets for the 8 o'clock show tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and then bring them over. Add 80 yuan to each ticket and exchange them for these.
Tickets. In this case, can't you all watch a movie today?" The young man smiled and said, "In this way, you will have the best of both worlds!"
"If we exchange a ticket from you, you'll charge eighty yuan?" Jingjing shook her head repeatedly, "It's too expensive. If we exchange an eight o'clock ticket for a five o'clock ticket, it would be an even bigger loss!"
"Eighty yuan, that's not much!" The young man said with a careless smile, "Otherwise you would have to come here in two days, and the round trip fare and time wasted, have you forgotten it? And there seem to be a lot of you.
By then, will you be able to spend your free time together? If you don’t believe me when you say my price is expensive, ask someone else. In a situation like yours, each ticket will cost you a hundred and eighty yuan, but it’s just a little bit.
Not much!" Jingjing looked at Liu Yuyan, and Liu Yuyan looked at Zuo Lijun. The four of them looked at each other with big eyes and small eyes. For a moment, it was difficult to make a decision.
"How about we buy the tickets first and figure out what to do later?" Zuo Lijun looked back at the ticket booth and said anxiously.
"Okay!" Jingjing nodded. After queuing for such a long time, if he came out without buying anything, he would really lose money!
Zuo Lijun hurried back, and Liu Yuyan and the other two started bargaining with the young man again.
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