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Inauguration Tickets Pulled From eBay, StubHub, Kijiji.

EBay has agreed to pull listings for tickets to President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration from its main site, StubHub and Kijiji.

The move comes after California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, expressed concern that people were trying to sell tickets online for the January 20 event for thousands of dollars. Tickets were free and distributed through your member of Congress, but were snapped up immediately.

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“I want to thank eBay/StubHub for not allowing the sale of inaugural swearing-in ceremony tickets on any of its Web sites,” Sen. Feinstein said in a Thursday statement. “They have led the way and I hope other Internet companies will follow.”

Tickets for the inauguration are not even released until a week before the event, so people selling their “tickets” online do not have them in hand.

“Any Web site or ticket broker claiming that they have inaugural tickets is simply not telling the truth,” Howard Gantman, staff director for the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, wrote on the committee’s Web site. “We urge the public to view any offers of tickets for sale with great skepticism.”

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