Where to sell spare Rugby WC final tickets

Where to sell spare Rugby WC final tickets

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BigBen

Original Poster:

11,742 posts

235 months

Monday 19th October 2015
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Hello,

Seems one can no longer sell event tickets on ebay and have to use their sister company 'stubhub.'

Any other suggestions in case none of my mates are keen? they are for the Rugby Final and for the last few weeks I have become less and less interested in attending for some reason!

Ben

MrBarry123

6,037 posts

126 months

Monday 19th October 2015
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You'd probably get some interest on here.

I would be interested, depending on how much you'd want for them of course...

toastybase

2,235 posts

213 months

Tuesday 20th October 2015
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How much are you after?

BigBen

Original Poster:

11,742 posts

235 months

Tuesday 20th October 2015
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As I said selling them would be plan B if none of my friends would like them. Have not thought of a price, I guess whatever stub hub want less a bit if I wasn't paying their 'healthy' commission.

anonymous-user

59 months

Tuesday 20th October 2015
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Face value tickets were

715 / 515 / 315 /150


Tickets available at 415 + fees from stub hub and 460 plus (slightly smaller) fees on viagogo.


Cat C ticket and hotel £560 on viagogo


Thousands available. Can't see prices going north due to lack of British/Irish interest.



Du1point8

21,662 posts

197 months

Tuesday 20th October 2015
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Sorry to be harsh but your post smacks of an advert for selling your tickets.

The first post... that was fine.

It was as soon as you said you don't want face/trade value, you are touting them at just under the price that you can get on stubhub.

Sounds like you want to sell them to a PHer as you don't trust stubhub.

Bluebarge

4,519 posts

183 months

Tuesday 20th October 2015
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Du1point8 said:
Sorry to be harsh but your post smacks of an advert for selling your tickets.

The first post... that was fine.

It was as soon as you said you don't want face/trade value, you are touting them at just under the price that you can get on stubhub.

Sounds like you want to sell them to a PHer as you don't trust stubhub.
This. Proper rugby fans sell at face value.




JCB123

2,265 posts

201 months

Tuesday 20th October 2015
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Bluebarge said:
Du1point8 said:
Sorry to be harsh but your post smacks of an advert for selling your tickets.

The first post... that was fine.

It was as soon as you said you don't want face/trade value, you are touting them at just under the price that you can get on stubhub.

Sounds like you want to sell them to a PHer as you don't trust stubhub.
This. Proper rugby fans sell at face value.
Proper rugby fans sell their wives / children to go. No amount of apocalypse would prevent me from going, should I have a ticket.....

anonymous-user

59 months

Tuesday 20th October 2015
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I have just checked the office site and tickets still available

So for as long as official tickets are available i'd say secondary market ones need to be discounted.

BigBen

Original Poster:

11,742 posts

235 months

Tuesday 20th October 2015
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JCB123 said:
Bluebarge said:
Du1point8 said:
Sorry to be harsh but your post smacks of an advert for selling your tickets.

The first post... that was fine.

It was as soon as you said you don't want face/trade value, you are touting them at just under the price that you can get on stubhub.

Sounds like you want to sell them to a PHer as you don't trust stubhub.
This. Proper rugby fans sell at face value.
Proper rugby fans sell their wives / children to go. No amount of apocalypse would prevent me from going, should I have a ticket.....
Should I have lied when someone asked how much I was looking for?

Proper fans play for their village team every weekend (which I do) and spend a lot of their spare time helping run said team (which I do) or would rather go to every England six nations fixture instead of a final in where they don't have a horse in the race (which I would prefer.) Still I am sure you are right.

If the final tickets were vaguely reasonably priced I would probably still go for a day out, but they weren't so it is difficult to justify in these austere times.

Ben







Aquarius909

99 posts

170 months

Tuesday 20th October 2015
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Real rugby fans transact purchases/sales at face value only. This isn't soccer.

Du1point8

21,662 posts

197 months

Tuesday 20th October 2015
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So because they might cost £750 a ticket... I WANT £3k A TICKET TO JUSTIFY IT....

Dude... you aint going to get anywhere trying to justify your price hike from face value at all here...

In fact I would not be surprised if you offered them to you rugby club at x3 the value and they all told you to do one.

Why, if you are a member of a rugby club are you not giving them first refusal at £400+ for the cheapest ticket?

Why do they not want your £150 tickets?

BigBen

Original Poster:

11,742 posts

235 months

Tuesday 20th October 2015
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Du1point8 said:
So because they might cost £750 a ticket... I WANT £3k A TICKET TO JUSTIFY IT....

Dude... you aint going to get anywhere trying to justify your price hike from face value at all here...

In fact I would not be surprised if you offered them to you rugby club at x3 the value and they all told you to do one.

Why, if you are a member of a rugby club are you not giving them first refusal at £400+ for the cheapest ticket?

Why do they not want your £150 tickets?
Sorry not sure I follow most of that. Perhaps go back and try reading my posts about my tickets being on sale IF my friends don't want them.

Or stick to posting conjecture, whatever floats your boat. Dude.

Ben

Cheib

23,605 posts

180 months

Tuesday 20th October 2015
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There have been plenty of tickets available at face value (since England went out!)....there were tons of tickets at face value and less for the Wales game last weekend ( I was offered tickets at 50% of face late on Friday). I was offered tickets for SA v NZ yesterday at face value too.

Exactly the same the last time England hosted the World Cup....loads of face value tickets available for the semi's then but then they were £100 a pop and not the fking mental prices these were sold for.

castex

4,973 posts

278 months

Tuesday 20th October 2015
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No amount of playing for your village team is going to change the fact that nobody cares about the rugby world cup anymore. You bought them, go watch it.

Simon Brooks

1,520 posts

256 months

Wednesday 21st October 2015
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BigBen said:
JCB123 said:
Bluebarge said:
Du1point8 said:
Sorry to be harsh but your post smacks of an advert for selling your tickets.

The first post... that was fine.

It was as soon as you said you don't want face/trade value, you are touting them at just under the price that you can get on stubhub.

Sounds like you want to sell them to a PHer as you don't trust stubhub.
This. Proper rugby fans sell at face value.
Proper rugby fans sell their wives / children to go. No amount of apocalypse would prevent me from going, should I have a ticket.....
Should I have lied when someone asked how much I was looking for?

Proper fans play for their village team every weekend (which I do) and spend a lot of their spare time helping run said team (which I do) or would rather go to every England six nations fixture instead of a final in where they don't have a horse in the race (which I would prefer.) Still I am sure you are right.

If the final tickets were vaguely reasonably priced I would probably still go for a day out, but they weren't so it is difficult to justify in these austere times.

Ben
same here, spend most evenings and every weekend with own club and county commitments, however wouldn't dream of asking for more than face value

BigBen

Original Poster:

11,742 posts

235 months

Tuesday 27th October 2015
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Simon Brooks said:
same here, spend most evenings and every weekend with own club and county commitments, however wouldn't dream of asking for more than face value
Which club / county ?

To bring this thread to a conclusion I found a friend to go with so will be attending the final, must admit I was partly swayed in that direction by this thread and by the fact if I keep waiting for England to reach another final I may be too elderly to enjoy it.

Is it good form to wear an England shirt rather than the colours of either team that is playing?

LivingTheDream

1,760 posts

184 months

Tuesday 27th October 2015
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Don't want to break any rules so apologies to mods if I do and please remove if necessary

I have 4 tickets to the bronze final for which I and the family can no longer attend - would hate to see them go to waste but I can't sell them on stub hub as its too close to the event.

Any ideas? I've facebooked etc

Googie

1,313 posts

131 months

Tuesday 27th October 2015
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You could try via the official RWC website which has a resale service but if no takers you are stuck with them- its showing limited availability so depending on the price point you might have some luck with a block of 4. New buyer prints off tickets on purchase but could be a hostage to fortune if you have posted them elsewhere too.

LivingTheDream

1,760 posts

184 months

Wednesday 28th October 2015
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Thanks for that - I have stuck them on the resale site but it says they will be available in 72 hours which makes it rather pointless.

Looks like they will be empty seats now. So annoying.