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If your goal is to buy sold-out tickets to the hottest event in town, there are online ticket brokers and secondary marketplaces that promise to deliver. But you will pay dearly for it.
For example, the popular online marketplace Stubhub.com (recently bought by eBay) tacks on a 25 percent surcharge -- 15 percent to sellers and 10 percent to buyers -- to make a profit.
Ticket brokers will charge you anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars for the hottest seats in the country. So if you want sold-out tickets to the Super Bowl, World Series, The Lion King or The Final Four, be prepared to dip into your bank account considerably.
Here are some examples:
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