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Needless to say some profiteering occasionally takes place in connection with the ostraka, a fellow buying a few for a given price and then trying to sell them for higher prices later outside, say, the stadium or theater. - (Kajira of Gor, Chapter 6, Sentence #324)

If the event or performance is an important one, and the ostraka are limited, their number being governed by the seating capacity of the structure or area in question, it is unlikely that they will be publicly displayed until after the event or performance. It is too easy to snatch them from about the neck in the market place. Too, sometimes rich men have been known to set ruffians on people to obtain them. Needless to say some profiteering occasionally takes place in connection with the ostraka, a fellow buying a few for a given price and then trying to sell them for higher prices later outside, say, the stadium or theater. "How much did they cost?" I asked. "Together," he said, "a silver tarsk". "That is more, I recall," I said, "than you thought I might go for if I were sold for myself alone, as a slave". - (Kajira of Gor)