Ticket monopoly brings one man big profit monopoly, profit, Ticket, big, brings

快樂牛郎

It's a safe bet that few Americans headed north for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics have ever heard of a secretive New Jersey multimillionaire named Sead Dizdarevic.

But he's very well-acquainted with their money.

You can't buy an official ticket to the Games without ringing the cash register for Dizdarevic, a longtime Olympic insider who has spent tens of millions of dollars to become the official "hospitality provider" for February's Games. His exclusive contracts give him a monopoly to sell tickets and hotel packages at steep markups in the United States.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/olympics/2010280290_olytickets16.html