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World Cup online tickets on eBay?
April 27, 2005
AP — World Cup organizers renewed their warning to soccer fans
about buying tickets on eBay, saying they risk not getting into
stadiums.
Tickets for the 2006 World Cup in Germany appeared on the eBay Web site
a few days after organizers distributed the first batch made available
to fans worldwide.
"We can only warn against picking up these offers because each fan that
gets a ticket in this way has to take into account that he may not get
into the stadium," said Horst Schmidt, organizing committee vice
president.
Tickets can be passed on to someone else, but only on legitimate
grounds, such as illness, and with the approval of the organizing
committee. While the most expensive tickets officially cost $780, some
cheaper ones sell for about $1,300 on eBay, Schmidt said.
Each ticket bears the name of the purchaser and organizers will randomly
check the identities of ticket-holders. Schmidt said organizers were
aware they wouldn't be able to eradicate the black market altogether,
but were doing their best to stifle it.
In the first sale stage that ended April 15, 812,000 tickets went to
208,455 fans picked randomly by a computer from among 900,000 people who
had applied for tickets.
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