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Diamonddavej
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15 Apr 2010, 10:26 pm

I can hardly believe the level of cocked-uptness. FIFA and the World Cup organisers in South Africa, in their infinite wisdom, decided to sell most of the World Cup tickets to South African citizens On-Line - in a country where most people don't have internet access or a credit card. The computer system crashed and FIFA admit the process involved in buying the tickets on-line is too complex.

So, nearly 500,000 tickets are unsold and most probably they won't be bought by cash paying poor South Africans (the ticket prices are = average weekly wage). The opening match is on 11th June.

Ticket fiasco must not dent the football carnival
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gordonfarquh ... nt_th.html


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18 Apr 2010, 6:54 pm

that is totally dumb, selling tickets in a way that is unaccessible to a lot of people.



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18 Apr 2010, 7:11 pm

This is a perfect oppurtunity to be a scalper. Just hop on a plane to South Africa, buy the unsold tickets and sell them in the cities at more affordable prices and you'll be sitting on a gold mine by World Cup's end! 8)

Of course they may have regulations over there which would prevent people from doing this sort of thing. I dunno.