Culture: Obviously: People trying to sell free Joe Paterno memorial tickets on eBay
- 16,000 number of free tickets given out for Joe Paterno’s memorial, which happens this afternoon
- $98,000 the amount some of the tickets have gone for on eBay — before eBay took the sales down source
- » Greed over grieving: With Paterno so highly regarded in the Penn State community, it only makes sense that there’s a lot of demand for these tickets. “It took only minutes more for pairs of the tickets to start showing up on eBay,” the Centre Daily Times pointed out. But, thing is, eBay has a rule where you can’t sell tickets you got for free for money. So many of the ticket sales got taken down. Suggestion to all: Don’t sell tickets for a memorial. A guy died. It’s not the Super Bowl. (Thanks Time’s Moneyland for the tip)