make a profit

"The only way I could find to make a profit on the tour - you're either going, hopefully I sell enough T-shirts to cover the debt, or you cut people's wages, or you fire band and crew, or you travel dangerously."

Richardson said he isn’t looking to make a profit through usage fees for the event venues.

The race does not make a profit - the number of runners is capped because of limited space on the track - but race director Shankara Smith says she will “keep doing it for as long as the runners want to do it”.

“The primary purpose of our limited housing supply should not be for Wall Street to make a profit,” he said.

Ticket scalping is illegal in India, and experts say that while it's possible that it's happening anyway, it's also likely that legitimate ticket-holders are selling theirs through resellers to make a profit due to the massive demand.