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Monday, October 2, 2006
Cricket World Cup commercial manager Stephen Price has warned that tickets bought for the Cricket event next year on internet auction sites or from other third party outlets will not be honoured. The Tournament organizers have announced that only tickets sold through authorised travel agents and the International Cricket Council's public ticketing programme would be valid for entry . Were trying to protect people from price gouging, Price said, as he explained that tickets bought on E Bay would not be acceptable. According to reports, tickets posted on that popular auction site were drawing bids of more than twice their actual face value. Organizers started noticing unauthorized ticket sales on eBay and sites, such as worldticketshop.com, in late August. On one such site, a package of four tickets for matches in Barbados with a face value of US$900, had attracted bids higher than US$1,900. According to Price, World Cup Officials were working with the site managers and other Internet Monitoring services to identify the vendors. About 800,000 tickets are officially on sale for the tournament. Organizers will begin mailing tickets in January.
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