According to the daily Metro, a Vancouver woman sold three tickets to the men’s gold-medal hockey game for $18,888 through VANOC’s fan-to-fan marketplace.

“It was three hours at Canada Hockey Place or two weeks on the beach,” said the reseller, who asked that her name not be published.

She decided to post her three $800 Class-A hockey tickets on VANOC’s official resale website in late December.

“We tried to come up with an average of what other people were asking for three tickets,” she said. Her dad eventually suggested asking for $18,888 for three seats together.

There were no takers until last Thursday. VANOC gets a 10 per cent cut.

After VANOC’s cut on both buyer and seller, that’s a $3,777.60 windfall for changing ownership of a ticket they already received full sale price for. Maybe this internet scalping thing is the next big money maker.

At a price of $6,296 each, let’s hope the buyers get their money’s worth. The face value of the tickets are listed at $800 each, which means that for a $2,400 investment, the Vancouver woman made a profit of $16,488 minus VANOC’s 10% cut.