Anyone who has bought from "scalpers" via eBay highly prized tickets to the cricket Ashes series between Australia & England starting down here in November may be in for a huge disappointment:
ABC Sport - Cricket - eBay buyers face Ashes shut-out
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Cricket Australia has cancelled around 1,300 Ashes tickets that have fallen into the hands of scalpers.
Tickets for the five-Test series between Australia and England sold out shortly after they went on sale in June.
Soon afterwards they began appearing on Internet auction sites such as eBay at highly inflated prices.
Cricket Australia spokesman Peter Young says private investigators were used to track down the ticket scalpers.
He says anyone who has bought a ticket from an online auction site may be disappointed, come Ashes time.
"We have an absolute right under the contract of sale to cancel tickets which have been re-sold at higher than face value," he said.
"Anybody who has bought a ticket over the Internet needs to be aware that they are at risk of not being able to get into a venue come summertime."
The Ashes series begins at the Gabba in Brisbane on November 23. |
They've just been talking about it on our morning news show - tickets priced at less than $50 have been selling on eBay for as much as $2,000.
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