Scalping

I was at the bank earlier today and there was a guy talking to the security guard about going to a game. From what I gathered, he must've bought his tickets from ebay or something like that, because he was talking about how it doesn't make sense that you can sell things like that online for a ridiculous amount of money and get away with it. "Shouldn't that be illegal? I guess since you're making money off of it, it's considered a business, huh? That's seems unfair that just because it's a business, that makes it legal..."

I started laughing to myself, because A) Selling tickets for whatever amount of money that you want to is legal, so long as it's a certain distance away from the venue. I read an article about this a while back. B) Not many people would know that, but to justify scalping's legality because it's a business...that's stupid. If that were the case, drug dealers would be free to do as they please. Same as child porn rings, slave trade, coyotes, and basically, anything, since everything's done for money. Snatching a lady's purse or robbing a bank, by that rationale, would be legal. The whole world would turn upside down. It would be opposite day.
C) If it weren't for scalping, there's a big chance he wouldn't have the tickets to go to this event that he obviously wanted to go to. D) I'm pretty sure he was talking about the UCLA vs USC game that was today. That being the possible thing, he deserved to pay a shit ton. This game is "the game." The one you could go to the grocery store and just turn to the guy next to you and ask, "You see the game?" And without a doubt, he knows what game you're talking about. People go to it or watch it just to say they went to it. "Did you see the game?" Like a dorky guy who probably doesn't even like football, let alone know about it watches the game because the rest of the dorks in accounts receivable are watching it. These are all just my prejudiced opinion, but it keeps me happy.