To buy or hold your nerve?
The tickets are out there, but what to pay? Some have been spending £3,000 today. Watching the time expire on lots that seem more reasonable, you wonder who you can trust. A man in north London is selling two tickets for £700 that he says he was given by his father. He cannot now attend the match because of unspecified “business”. He wants the payment to be made via a money transfer.
By yesterday evening a very nice-sounding lawyer from New Zealand had come down to around £900 for one of five tickets purchased several months ago: the original asking price had been £2,000. I’m looking to do the whole trip in £1,000 so that is still beyond me, but the consensus among my fellow ticket-purchasers seems to be that prices will come down as the week progresses. Ultimately, they say, the best time to buy will be just as the match starts. The alternative view, put to me by the head of Viagogo, one of the ticket exchange sites, was that prices will spike on Friday as people get more excited about the event.
In the mean time we all have an outside shot at one last official ticket sale. Tomorrow morning the Rugby World Cup organising committee are selling a few hundred tickets that have been returned by extraordinarily honest media organisations and from countries knocked out of the tournament. As demand rather outstrips supply, they have decided not to tell anyone precisely when this sale will start, or how many tickets they have. “If we do that,” a man from the committee said yesterday, “our server will crash.”
Failing that, we are all working what contacts we have. “The New Zealand friend whose father has got tickets is most unreasonably still going to go,” a lady, looking to supply her “rugby mad husband” wrote to me this afternoon. “Have tried the Shroders banker friend, whose son my husband coaches, to no avail; left messages on answer machines of all the children’s god parents . So far no luck from the Corporate City solicitor, the City headhunter, maybe the Army Lieutenant Colonel can arrange to ‘shoot’ someone with tickets.”
2 PLACES £ 1500 CATEGORY ORANGE
germain.pinet.numericable.fr
pick up your tickets in hands in paris friday or saturday
Posted by: PINET | 18 Oct 2007 21:37:31
My 2 tickets ORANGE CATEGORY are on sell £ 1500
PICK UP IN PARIS FRIDAY OR SATURDAY
germain.pinet@numericable.fr
Posted by: PINET | 18 Oct 2007 21:34:29
There are a couple of ingenious and desperate people selling themselves (sort of) on Ebay to try and get to the final!
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[url=http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rugby-World-cup-final-tickets-for-2-Cheering-fans_W0QQitemZ220160865100QQihZ012QQcategoryZ1306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem] [u]Rugby World cup final tickets for 2 Cheering fans[/u][/url]
Posted by: Louisa | 17 Oct 2007 12:08:20
My tickets are on sell for £3,000... If somebody is interested in... xblouet@gmail.com
Posted by: xav | 17 Oct 2007 08:42:48