A Vancouver woman has sold three tickets to the men’s gold-medal hockey game for $18,888.
“It was three hours at Canada Hockey Place or two weeks on the beach,” said the reseller, who asked that her name not be published.
She decided to post her three $800 Class-A hockey tickets on VANOC’s official resale website in late December.
“We tried to come up with an average of what other people were asking for three tickets,” she said. Her dad eventually suggested asking for $18,888 for three seats together.
There were no takers until last Thursday. VANOC gets a 10 per cent cut.
“The worst that could have happened was us going to the game,” the seller said. She will receive her money from VANOC after the Paralympics.
On Thursday, some tickets to the gold-medal game on VANOC’s resale website were going for as much as $20,000 each.
