A site has been set up by VANOC for the legitimate re-sale of Olympics tickets. It starts here.

Ticket scalping is legal in Vancouver, but counterfeit tickets have been a problem at times. This legitimate re-sale site charges a commission of 20% on the face value of the ticket.

During the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, there was an office where holders of tickets they did not intend to use could turn them in for re-sale. The problem was, there was a platoon of professional scalpers in Lillehammer. They would be at the front the line when the re-sale tickets were put on sale; they would buy these re-sale tickets, and immediately try to scalp them.