eBay profiteers to be thwarted legally?
Out of morbid curiosity more than anything I’d been keeping an eye on eBay to see if any spare tickets for the Chelsea game found their way onto the online auctioning site. So far I’ve only seen a few “wanted” listings with some fans willing to pay £100 or more per ticket - it was rumoured one was listed for sale too, reached £85 before disappearing from the site entirely.
It was mentioned by Colin Fray on BBC Radio Nottingham on their Matchtalk programme this evening that Forest are pursuing legal avenues to prevent this, which in the light of the many inadequacies in selling the tickets, is a welcome step from the club. With so many of our committed supporters disappointed either through arriving too late or relying on the bug-ridden ticket website (which only sold 300 tickets apparently), it’s shameful to think some of those fortunate enough to acquire a ticket would be willing to exploit fellow fans in this way.
That said, I imagine that any such sellers are likely to be recipients of corporate or internal freebies rather than those of us who queued up to buy tickets. For one thing, if you bought a chunk of tickets together they’d be next to each other (well, more often than not), so you’d end up sitting with the person you’d fleeced which I’d hope even the most shameless person would be uncomfortable with.
Given the lack of listings I’ve spotted then perhaps it’s a bit of a non-issue anyway, and I’m sure there are other means for unscrupulous ticket holders to dispose of their tickets for a profit should they have such a motivation and lack of common decency.
