A meme was born from the final minutes of last year’s “Avengers: Infinity War,” as Thanos tells his young daughter Gamora that he completed his goal of balancing the universe. When she asks what did it cost, he says “everything.”

Tickets to the sequel, “Avengers: Endgame," might not be costing some desperate New Jersey residents quite that much, but it might be “everything” in their bank account.

After presale tickets for the biggest Marvel movie yet took the internet by storm and caused massive delays earlier this week, people are paying literally thousands of dollars to get tickets for the opening weekend on the secondary market.

Two tickets to a 3D showing of “Endgame” on opening day, April 26, at the AMC Dine-In Theatre at Essex Green in West Orange sold on eBay for $15,000 earlier this week. You read that correctly. Fifteen. Thousand. Dollars. How much will buying a ticket to the same screening through the AMC website cost you? A cool $19.88.

Maybe $15,000 is too much for you, but you’re still willing to break the bank for the elusive tickets? There are two tickets available on eBay for a 3D screening at the AMC Dine-In Theatre in Bridgewater on April 26 for a mere $1,000 — a steal! The online auctioning service is offering financing on the tickets, $49 a month for 24 months. So, you know, a sound financial plan.

So, tickets for the opening weekend are hard to come by, but are not impossible to find. But if the screening you wanted to go to sold out, you can apparently always check out eBay.

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