SCALPING

Your timely piece on ticket brokering got me where I live. My wonderful husband gave me two tickets to “The Phantom of the Opera” at the Music Center. It was a glorious production for which I would have gladly paid twice the price ($186 a piece through a legitimate ticket agency). When the tickets arrived, however, with a $50 gate price on them, I realized that the people who had produced this marvelous event would never see most of the money I’d spent to see it. That fact raised my ire.

LINDA K. PETERS

Barstow