Someone is trying to sell a free Pope ticket for $5,000

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - JANUARY 16: Pope Francis waves to thousands of followers as he arrives at the Manila Cathedral on January 16, 2015 in Manila, Philippines. Pope Francis will visit venues across Leyte and Manila during his visit to the Philippines from January 15 - 19. The visit is expected to attract crowds in the millions as Filipino Catholics flock to catch a glimpse of the leader of the Catholic Church in the Philippines for the first time since 1995. The Pope will begin the tour in Manila, then travelling to Tacloban to visit areas devastated by Typhoon Haiyan before returning to Manila to hold a mass at Rizal Park. The Philippines is the only Catholic majority nation in Asia with around 90 percent of the population professing the faith. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

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Some people are looking to make a quick buck off of the Pope’s visit next week. Tickets, which were all distributed for free, are now being scalped for significant sums of cash on sites like Craigslist.

A quick search on New York’s Craigslist site brings up multiple listings. One offers four tickets at $250 each, another is asking $1,500 for a pair of tickets for Pope Francis’ Central Park procession on Sept. 25. On the Philadelphia Craigslist, one bold seller is asking $5,000 for a single ticket to the Pope’s appearance at Independence Hall. (His or her sales pitch is tempting: “Text me if you want this stupid ticket to see the stupid pope [sic].”)

The Catholic Church is not particularly happy about the reselling. A spokesman for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia reported the scalping to local law enforcement, telling the Wall Street Journal that they had intended to provide “free tickets while preventing scalping or hoarding.”