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Whether they bought them to scalp or just saw a chance to make a few extra bucks, a number of W.W. D.C. ticket holders are selling those tickets online at a pretty big markup.

CNET did a quick cruise of eBay yesterday and found 10 passes to Apple's worldwide

developers conference up for bids, though they say more had been available earlier in the week.

Prices spotted by CNET and Computer World put sales between 3,000 and 4,600 dollars, well above

the $1,59 for which people could buy the tickets for a really short time earlier this week.

But it's not as simple as buying a ticket from a guy on the corner.

According to seeing that, Apple's system requires that

W.W. D.C. attendees be a registered developer with the company to activate the code that was given out to those

who managed to snag tickets.

That code is what's being sold as part of these auctions.

Even then, says the piece.

Such a detail is unlikely to stop someone who's willing to pay double or even triple the asking

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