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[blnchflr]

Poll #12605

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Disregarding whether it may be against race rules or not, selling your race bib number for more than you paid for it (i.e. official price):

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Cool
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Not cool
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[ell]

I think it depends, honestly. Knee-jerk reaction was to say not cool, but then I stopped to think for a minute. I can imagine situations where that doesn't seem completely unreasonable. For example, suppose you registered super early and got a reduced price, but are selling it to someone during the normal price period? Should they expect to pay what everyone else on that day would have paid? But, in general, I'd go with same price. Bad karma otherwise.

[cadenzamuse]

I feel like that's slightly different? Because that's still selling the bib at an official price point, even if it's not the price you paid for it.

I immediately interpreted this question to be about "scalping" bibs for extremely popular races that sell out--yes, I think it's fine to sell your bib if you can't run it, and yes, demand is very high so economically you can get more money for it, but man, that seems greedy to me, especially when a lot of races donate some proceeds to charities, plus it means that richer runners get to run the races they want to and runners with less money don't. Blegh.

Sorry for the late reply - analog life was all, pay attention to meee!

[blnchflr]

I still think it's being an asshole to profit on reselling a ticket bought at reduced price; but reselling at above the official price, so much no! Like we need people speculating in buying up race tickets to scalp. Grrr.