Learn English with the News | Taylor Swift Outrageous Ticket Sales (FREE PDF)

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Welcome back to JForrest English, I'm Jennifer,  
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and today we're going to  read a news article together.
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A news article about Taylor  Swift's concert in Toronto.
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So you can add a lot of advanced vocabulary,  
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advanced grammar and correct  pronunciation to your.
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1st I'll read the headline  People are selling Taylor.
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Swift Toronto tickets for.
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Outrageous prices?
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Days before official sale, so we're talking about.
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The Taylor Swift Swift concert  taking place in Toronto The.
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City of Toronto in Canada, which is Canada's.
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Largest city and the.
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Prices are outrageous.
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So what does this adjective tell you?
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About the prices, if I say the prices  are outrageous, well, it means.
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The prices are very high, extremely  high, and it also implies.
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Too high.
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Now the adjective outrageous means shocking.
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Shocking in this.
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Case because they're too high.
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It can also mean morally unacceptable.
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So you might be looking at one of.
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Taylor Swift's outfits,  What she's wearing and say.
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That's outrageous if you think  it's morally unacceptable.
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Now let's take a look.
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At too high because I could  say the prices are very high.
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Or I could say the prices are too high.
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If I say something that is.
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Too high, too plus adjective.
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It means that you think they.
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Should be less because that's what.
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The this word to means.
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Whereas if I just say, oh  the prices are very high,  
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it doesn't necessarily mean  I think they should be.
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Less, perhaps what you're purchasing.
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Deserves the high price and  you're just stating a fact.
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The prices are very high, but it's worth it.
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But the prices are too high.
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You think they?
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Should be less.
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Now don't worry about taking notes because  I summarize everything in a free lesson PDF,  
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so you can look for the link in the description.
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Now let's continue and find out.
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About these outrageous prices.
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So how much do you think  it will be for one Taylor?
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Swift ticket.
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Let's see if you're If you're  right, Okay on Thursday.
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Mega.
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Pop * Taylor Swift finally confirmed  that she would be bringing her.
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Sold out eras tour to Toronto.
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So sold out.
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This is an adjective to describe.
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Her tour.
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In this case, it's an adjective  because it comes before the noun.
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The noun is tour.
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You could say her tickets sold  out in 20 minutes for example.
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So in this case.
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The verb is sold out.
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Her tickets sold out in 20 minutes,  but in this case it's an adjective.
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Now when something.
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Sells out.
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It means all.
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The supply of it is gone, so 100% of the.
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Tickets are sold.
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That's sold out 100% of tickets.
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Are sold.
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Now this.
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Is a very good thing if.
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You're running any sort of event  conference, anything that people buy?
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Tickets to You want those tickets?
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To be sold out.
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This could even be a ticket on an airline.
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Oh, all the.
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All the tickets are sold out so I can't get on.
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That flight, for example.
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So in that case you can.
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Say to be sold out.
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So your verb is to be and  then sold out is an adjective.
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All the tickets are sold out.
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Are sold out to be sold out.
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Let's continue.
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So she would be bringing.
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Her Sold out heiress to her to Toronto for a  recordbreaking 6 nights at the Roger Center.
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The Roger Center is the location  where she'll be performing in Toronto  
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following months of desperate.
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Pleas so a plea is please, please please that's.
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A plea and desperate is when you have a  very strong emotion of necessity in that.
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Please please please please please a  desperate please from Canadian swifties.
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So I didn't quite know what this  was at first, but her name is.
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Taylor Swift.
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So I guess the people who are fans of Taylor.
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Swift are called Swifties.
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I like Taylor Swift music.
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But I've never heard this expression.
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I guess I probably wouldn't consider myself a.
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Swifty, I don't know.
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What about you would you consider?
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Yourself a Swifty?
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Are you a die Hard Taylor Swift fan?
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I think this expression is probably.
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Reserved for the die hard fans.
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The Die hard fans.
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This might sound negative.
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Because it has the word die in it,  but it it's not, I guess another.
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Way of A more positive way I guess would  be a the Super fans, the mega fans.
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So the die hard fans.
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Are her best fans, I hope.
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You're a die hard fan of my channel, are you?
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Put that in the comments if.
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You are, so you can say Jennifer, I'm a die hard  fan or if you want to use a different adjective.
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You could also say huge fan in addition to super.
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Or mega.
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So put that in the comments  and of course I want you to be.
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Super Mega fans.
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OK, let's continue.
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Although the official Ticketmaster verified.
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Sale is still days away.
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Resellers have already begun to list.
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Tickets for outrageous prices.
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So now you know.
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That, this, this Outrageous when I hear.
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This all, It's outrageous.
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I have a sense of I'm a little bit angry.
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About it because.
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It's too much.
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It's too much compared to what you get in return.
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So when you say it, you do  have like a negative reaction.
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Towards it.
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That's outrageous.
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Now you could use this for  someone's decision, Maybe?
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Your boss asked.
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You to come in on.
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Saturday, even though it's your son's  birthday and he knows it's your son's  
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birthday to do some work that isn't even  that important and you could say that's.
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Outrageous.
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So you are expressing your  extreme dissatisfaction.
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Towards his request.
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Are you enjoying this lesson?
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Let's continue.
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So I put this dialogue here  for you, and that's outrageous.
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This is how native speakers.
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Reply to someone's news or an event if we think it  
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is very shocking and remember  it has that negativity in it.
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That's outrageous.
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So have begun to list.
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Tickets.
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If they list tickets, it  simply means they make them.
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Available for purchase.
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So to list tickets for outrageous prices, some  of which even exceed people's rent for one month.
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OK.
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So if it exceeds, it means it's more than.
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So how much do you think  people pay for rent in Toronto?
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And if it exceeds that,  how much do you think that?
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Taylor Swift ticket is any  idea now how much these?
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Outrageous prices are.
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Put it in the comments if you have a guest.
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OKA reseller here.
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This is a person.
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But it's a person who sells something again.
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So you could be a reseller if  you buy a product on Amazon.
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Let's say or Aliexpress and  then you sell it on a different.
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That's what a lot of people do to make money.
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They're resellers.
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They buy something from one place and  they instantly sell it in another.
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Place hopefully to make money in return,  so obviously they want to buy it for  
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less than they sell it.
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For So that's a reseller and that's someone's.
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Job or hobby, They've begun, so  the present perfect because it's  
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in progress now, it started in the  past, continues until the present.
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All right, Exceed.
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Remember, this means more than more than  more than people's rent for one month.
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More than it comes as no surprise  that the majority of these.
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Speculative listings now Don't worry.
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About what's a speculative listing,  
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well, we'll find out because they  provide a definition of it below.
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These speculative listings come  with a staggering 4 figure.
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Price tag.
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OK, so if something comes with a price.
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That's just another.
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Way of saying what the price of it is.
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Oh, I went on this amazing vacation.
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But it came with.
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A steep price tag.
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I just said a steep price tag.
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That is another way of saying a high.
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Price tag.
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So it came with a.
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Steep price tag now if you don't want.
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To use price tag and you just want to use.
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Price You actually have to change the preposition.
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You can say it came at A.
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Steep Price or Cost?
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So here, notice it came at.
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I'm changing the preposition from  with to at and this is when you.
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Just use price or cost.
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If you want to use tag then  it's come with it came with.
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A steep price tag.
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An outrageous.
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Price tag A staggering price tag.
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A staggering 4 figure price tag.
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So now you know how much the price.
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Is right because it's a four figure price tag.
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So notice it's.
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For figure price tag it's not for.
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Figures with an S on.
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Figures because this is  functioning as an adjective.
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So you could say there are four figures,  but here it's a four figure price tag.
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Now what?
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Is a four figure price tag?
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Well, you can think of a figure as a number.
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So right here.
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If her ticket sold for one.
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Dollar that would be a one figure.
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Price tag because there's  literally 11 Figure 1 number.
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If it were $10.
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That's a 2 figure price tag, 3 figure price tag.
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4 Figure Price tag OK And then this would be.
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A5 Figure price tag.
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Thankfully, it's hard to read  without the comma I find.
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So thankfully, it's not $10,000.
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But because it is 4 figures a four  figure price tag, we know that.
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The price is about $1000,  
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which is what some people are paying  for one month in Toronto for the rent.
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All right.
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So that's four figure a four figure price tag.
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Staggering.
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This is similar to outrageous.
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It means shocking.
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A staggering.
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4 Figure Price Tag Shocking or surprising?
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So are you shocked by?
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This price for one ticket 1 ticket.
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So if you want to take your girlfriend,  boyfriend, husband, wife, friend, me, you can.
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Take me to Taylor Swift.
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That will be at least $2000 for you  come with a staggering 4 figure.
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Price tag just to sit up in  the nosebleeds in an arena.
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The Nosebleed section is the  highest section, so they're the.
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Worst seats, and we refer to that  section commonly as the Nosebleeds.
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That's not the official name of it.
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That isn't the name that Ticketmaster,  the website selling the tickets.
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They wouldn't use that because it doesn't sound.
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But that's just the common name for it.
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So someone might ask you oh.
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Where are you sitting?
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And you say, oh, I'm in the  nosebleeds and that's not a good.
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Place to sit.
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It's the worst seats.
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They're the highest up, and if  they're the highest up, it means.
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You're the farthest away from the.
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Stage okay, so I'll write that for you.
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Let's continue.
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The US leg of the tour.
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Leg of the tour in this.
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Case leg simply means section or.
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So when the tour was in the US, that's one leg.
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Of the tour, so she has her entire tour  
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where she's going to many different  locations, so when she's in Europe.
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That would be 1.
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Leg of the tour, one part.
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Of the tour and then if.
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She goes to Africa.
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That would be another.
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Leg of the tour, so it would be the African leg.
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The European leg, The American leg, for example.
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The US leg of the tour was  met with unprecedented demand.
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If something is unprecedented, it  means it hasn't been experienced.
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Before, excuse me, so it.
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Suggests that there has been  more demand than experienced.
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Before, so obviously an extremely.
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High level of demand and  even crashed Ticketmaster.
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'S website immediately after the first batch of.
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Tickets went live in November 2022.
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OK, I'm sure you know the  verb crash to crash a website.
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Because we've all experienced this,  
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when a website crashes, it means it  stops functioning because of a problem.
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If your computer crashes, your  computer stops functioning,  
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and that's a sign that there's  some sort of a problem.
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So a website could crash.
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But your device, such as your  computer, laptop, iPad, phone could.
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Also crash.
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So an example you could say my computer crashed  and now I have to start the report from scratch.
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When you start something from scratch,  you start it from the very beginning,  
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because if your computer  crashes, everything freezes or.
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Your computer restarts and then it won't save the  document you were working on most of the time.
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All right, according to Ticketmaster.
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A speculative listing.
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Now we know this definition of  speculative listing is when unofficial.
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Sellers list tickets for sale,  even though they do not actually.
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Have those tickets.
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So remember I.
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Taught you what a reseller is?
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Well, in this case, they're selling  the product before they've even.
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Purchased the product, so  they don't actually have.
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The product yet that they're selling to  someone else, so could you imagine paying?
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For figures for a ticket that doesn't technically.
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Exist because the person selling  it doesn't actually have.
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The ticket yet?
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Ooh, that's a little risky.
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I would say they are betting or speculating.
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They This is the resellers.
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The resellers who are selling the tickets  that they don't actually have yet.
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So they, the resellers are betting or speculating.
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So this is.
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Where the word comes from the speculative listing.
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Is because they're betting that they.
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Will be able to get the tickets.
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They're speculating and then resell them to fans.
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So resell.
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Sell again.
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Remember.
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Sell again to fans, Ticketmasters.
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Website reads.
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I did not know this was a thing.
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I don't buy a lot of concert.
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What about you?
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Have you heard about this?
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Where someone?
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Does this speculative listing  where they sell a ticket that  
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they don't actually own yet  seems a little risky to me?
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What?
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About You all right.
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Tickets on StubHub are  currently priced at a minimum.
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Of $1800.
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So here you can read this as 1800  or 1800, so a minimum of 1800.
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So that's almost 2000  obviously, but remember before.
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It just said four figure, so a four figure.
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Goes up to 9009, nine, nine, because  once you get to the next, it's now.
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A5 Figure because you'll add  1 digit right 10,000 is 5.
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Figures but 1000 two 9999.
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Is 4 figures, so the tickets aren't  actually $1000, they're eighteen $101,800.
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Each for seats in the 500 section.
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This is the Nosebleed section,  so you're paying $1800 for the.
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Worst seat in the arena?
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Would you pay that now?
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This is outrageous.
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Can you see?
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And remember, there's a little bit of anger in it.
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That's outrageous.
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Would you agree with that?
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If you agree with that, then put.
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That's outrageous in the comments below.
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And remember, if you include an emoji, which?
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Is useful to show emotion.
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The emoji has to be some sort of angry or  type of emoji, so you can include that with.
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That's outrageous if you want as well.
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Who knows, maybe you think.
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This is totally worth it to see  Taylor Swift because you're a Swifty.
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You're a die hard.
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Taylor Swift fan You're a super fan.
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And you would gladly pay.
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This money to see Taylor Swift.
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That is entirely possible for.
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Some people and in that case.
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It wouldn't be outrageous.
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To them for each seats, for each for.
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Seats in the 500 section.
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Remember this is the nosebleeds on the  first night of the tour in Toronto.
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The majority of 100 section tickets, so the  lower the number the closer you are to the stage.
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So the 100 section would be  perhaps the closest to the stage.
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Certainly a lot closer than the 500 section.
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The majority of 100 section tickets are.
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Priced between Whoa, whoa, here we go this.
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Is even more outrageous.
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Perhaps 2.
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$1700 or $2700 to a mind boggling $12,000.
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Wow.
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What do you think that's outrageous or?
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I'm a Swifty so.
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I'm going to gladly pay 12.
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1000 dollars to see Taylor Swift.
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You're probably wondering about mind boggling.
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Mind boggling?
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This is an adjective.
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It means extremely surprising or  difficult to understand or imagine.
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So if I say like that's mind boggling,  
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it means I'm having a hard time even  understanding how 1 ticket could cost.
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$12,000 is mind boggling, so it's  similar to outrageous, but it.
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Also implies that you just.
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You're having a difficult time even  understanding how this could be.
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So what do?
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You think that's outrageous?
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Or you could also.
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Say in the comments section.
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That's mind boggling.
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That's mind boggling.
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What do you think?
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Or you can say I'd pay that.
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I'd pay that because I'm a Swifty.
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How did they spell it, Swifty?
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I'd pay that because I'm a  Swifty, so those are your.
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I'd pay that because I'm a Swifty.
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That's mind boggling.
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That's outrageous.
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Put your choice.
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In the comments.
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The most expensive tickets currently available  on StubHub are running for $13,214 each.
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It just.
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Keeps getting more and more expensive  now, so 13,214 dollars because you see.
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The dollar sign after each All right, who's?
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Taking me to Taylor Swift and  I want the 100 section tickets.
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I don't want the Nosebleed tickets, please.
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In general, ticket prices seem to  decline as the tour in Toronto goes on.
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When something goes on, it means  progresses as the tour progresses.
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As it goes on, so I'll write that there for you.
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As the Tour in Toronto goes on, but so far there.
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Doesn't even seem to be any seats  available for less than $1000.
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Now you know why some people some people  are saying that's outrageous, Other.
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Perhaps?
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Not because they're Swifties.
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So now what I'll do.
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That's the end of the article.
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So what I'll do now is I'll read  the article from start to finish  
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and this time you can focus on my pronunciation.
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People are selling Taylor Swift Toronto tickets  for outrageous prices days before official sale.
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On Thursday, Mega Pop * Taylor Swift.
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Finally confirmed that she would  be bringing her sold out heiress.
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Tour to Toronto for a record.
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Breaking six nights at the Rogers Center following  months of desperate pleas from Canadian Swifties.
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Although the official Ticketmaster  verified sale is still.
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Days away resellers have already.
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Begun to list tickets for outrageous prices?
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Some of which even exceed  people's rent for one month.
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It comes as no surprise that the majority of these  
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speculative listings come with  a staggering 4 figure price tag.
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Just.
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To sit up in the nosebleeds.
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The US leg of the tour was met  with unprecedented demand and  
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even crashed Ticketmaster's website immediately.
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After the first batch of tickets  went live in October 2022,  
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according to Ticketmaster, a speculative listing  is when unofficial sellers list tickets for sale.
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Even though they do not  actually have those tickets.
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They are betting or speculating.
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That they will be able to get.
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Tickets and then resell them to  fans, Ticketmasters website reads.
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Tickets on StubHub are currently  priced at a minimum of $1800 each.
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For seats in the 500 section on the  first night of the tour in Toronto.
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The majority of 100 section tickets are priced  between $2700 to a mind boggling $12,000.
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The most expensive tickets currently available  on StubHub are running for 13,214 dollars each.
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In general, ticket prices seem to  decline as the tour in Toronto goes on,  
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but so far there doesn't even seem  to be any seats available for less.
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Than $1000.
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I hope you enjoyed this lesson.
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Share it with your friends and I'm also.
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Interested to know what you  thought about those ticket prices?
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Did you think they were outrageous?
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Mind boggling.
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Juggling.
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Or maybe you're a super fan, a die hard fan.
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So you are ready.
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And excited to pay that.
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Let's find out and you can get  this free speaking guide where  
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I share 6 tips on how to speak  English fluently and confidently.
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