Fan pays £2,050 for ticket stubs in bid to get Capital One final tickets (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)
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Fan pays £2,050 for ticket stubs in bid to get Capital One final tickets
9:00am Tuesday 12th February 2013 in Capital One Cup Final – Bradford City v Swansea
By Hannah Postles, T&A Reporter
David Baldwin
Two stubs of complementary Bradford City tickets were last night sold for more than £2,000 on eBay as desperate fans scramble to get tickets for the Capital One cup final at Wembley.
City bosses last night condemned as ‘disgraceful’ those fans selling their Bantams’ ticket stubs for hugely more than the original face value.
Listings for stubs started appearing on internet auction site eBay last weekend, shortly after City announced that anyone wanting to buy any of the remaining 2,500 tickets for its Capital One Cup final against Swansea must produce a stub from a home league game this season.
Last night, one fan had bid £2,050 for the home match ticket stubs from Saturday’s game against Gillingham which were put up on the auction website for just 99p... which may not even get the bidder a cup final ticket.
Four more ticket stubs had gone well over £1,100 last night, and at least seven other sets of tickets were being auctioned.
Other fans turned to social networking sites Twitter and Facebook to offer their ticket stubs, saying they were willing to accept offers.
But David Baldwin, Bantams’ director of operations, yesterday branded it “disgraceful behaviour” and vowed to take action against those caught buying and selling stubs.
“We will take any means possible to sift them out to make sure genuine supporters can come to the final,” he said.
“It’s not in the spirit of what this is about.”
He also reiterated that having a stub did not necessarily mean supporters would be able to buy a ticket for the final on Sunday, February 24. The demand is far greater than the amount of tickets available,” he said.
The club has revealed details of how it will oversee the general sale of Wembley tickets. Fans will be able to buy a maximum of two tickets each, on a first come, first served basis at the ticket office.
Comments(47)
OutOfBradford
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9:16am Tue 12 Feb 13
The bidding was inflated with no intention of paying up. Nobody has actually paid £2k for these stubs.
Don't be so naive T&A!
tyker2
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9:37am Tue 12 Feb 13
OutOfBradford wrote:are you certain?
This listing was hijacked!
The bidding was inflated with no intention of paying up. Nobody has actually paid £2k for these stubs.
Don't be so naive T&A!
OutOfBradford
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9:45am Tue 12 Feb 13
tyker2 wrote:The last 11 bids on this listing came from people without Zero feedback. Accounts probably opened just to bid on this auction.
OutOfBradford wrote:are you certain?
This listing was hijacked!
The bidding was inflated with no intention of paying up. Nobody has actually paid £2k for these stubs.
Don't be so naive T&A!
It's common. It happens with Concert/Festival Tickets all the time. Face value under £100, "sell" on Ebay to new accounts with Zero feedback for thousands of pounds.
I don't believe for a second that someone has actually handed over £2k for these tickets.
BigFigure
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10:07am Tue 12 Feb 13
And the sellers had also made the sales cash on collection....so no guarantee of payment or Paypal protection either. Bet they didn't collect!
Thee Voice of Reason
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10:09am Tue 12 Feb 13
What a joke this story is.
Anyone can see this was a hijacked auction by City fans who were disgusted in people trying to make a quick profit.
No one paid £2k for tickets, for £2k they could buy club wembley tickets and enjoy the game from a box.
Pi55 poor reporting.
BigFigure
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10:09am Tue 12 Feb 13
Prisoner Cell Block A
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10:25am Tue 12 Feb 13
But, as above, and after reading twitter comments, the stupid prices are due to disgusted fans making a mockery out of those who have tried to profit by hijacking their ebay sales.
Edinburgh -bantam
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10:43am Tue 12 Feb 13
Next week we'll have " The arrival of overseas Bantams", followed by "The Players' Wives' Cup Final hairstyles"
Tomorrow " The start of the queue" then "The hard luck story-I was next but they'd all been sold"
Prisoner Cell Block A
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11:01am Tue 12 Feb 13
Edinburgh -bantam wrote:My wife has just pulled the 'dog got your tickets' on me, she called to say they had arrived but then really downbeat said
City's cup final is proving a boost to journalists who have to fill column inches.I'm just waiting for "the dog ate my ticket story"
Next week we'll have " The arrival of overseas Bantams", followed by "The Players' Wives' Cup Final hairstyles"
Tomorrow " The start of the queue" then "The hard luck story-I was next but they'd all been sold"
"sorry but the dog got them"
believable until I remembered they came registered post.
Cow. :)
gentlemanbob
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11:39am Tue 12 Feb 13
Time to change the wife....laugh
They can be buggers sometime.!!!!
Yours
Gentemanbob
gentlemanbob
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12:13pm Tue 12 Feb 13
Time to change the wife....laugh
They can be buggers sometime.!!!!
Yours
Gentemanbob
seasonticketholder
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12:18pm Tue 12 Feb 13
Madness
Hund01
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12:24pm Tue 12 Feb 13
Why didn't they just temporarily close registration and allow the registered fans to buy tickets online?
There is nothing to stop season ticket holders from turning up on Thursday morning with a stub to buy an extra couple of tickets.
This ticket stub and proof of identity is a complete, amateurish farce. They should have also said that Gillingham stubs would not count.
And yes the ebay bidding for stubs was sabotaged, any idiot can see that.
Quite honestly I would be even tempted to sell my genuine ticket for a grand or two. But those with that kind of cash to splash can easily obtain genuine tickets in the Club Wembley seats, there are enough members desperate to get rid of their seats because they have no interest in Swansea or a League 2 club.
silverbantam
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12:26pm Tue 12 Feb 13
That is those who have had season tickets in the past.
Asking for stubs just encourages selling on the black market.
cheekymofo
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12:53pm Tue 12 Feb 13
om
Good story though T&A. Keep up the good work.
Pricey878
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1:03pm Tue 12 Feb 13
tickets only
Pricey878
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1:03pm Tue 12 Feb 13
tickets only
Old Peculiar
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1:09pm Tue 12 Feb 13
Thee Voice of Reason
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1:13pm Tue 12 Feb 13
cheekymofo wrote:What does the editor of this paper do? Seriously letting this go to press is embarrassing.
Deffo fake bids after a facebook idea from a bradford city fan group. Why would anybody pay 2k when you can get £100 seats for the big game for £425 from footballseatfinder.c om Good story though T&A. Keep up the good work.
markthemenace
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1:29pm Tue 12 Feb 13
thing to sell papers!!!
There are a number of ticket stubs on ebay, mostly at 99p, although some people just don't read because most of them are cup tickets from the Arsenal & Villa games...DOHHH!!!!
Bradford City should identify the culprits and not allow these tickets to be used because the majority of them you can see the block, row & seat number and some have their membership numbers on!
Michael Clayton
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1:31pm Tue 12 Feb 13
silverbantam
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1:59pm Tue 12 Feb 13
loftyme
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2:10pm Tue 12 Feb 13
Prisoner Cell Block A
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2:44pm Tue 12 Feb 13
gentlemanbob wrote:If only Bob, if only ;)
Hi Gents
Time to change the wife....laugh
They can be buggers sometime.!!!!
Yours
Gentemanbob
hahaha
Pricey878
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2:53pm Tue 12 Feb 13
Chillum Bantam
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3:24pm Tue 12 Feb 13
silverbantam
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4:22pm Tue 12 Feb 13
silverbantam
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4:53pm Tue 12 Feb 13
Potentially they could get into the hands of Swansea supporters which must be dangerous.
The club must scrap this stub ruling and only accept sales from those already on City's database which includes previous season ticket holders.
Plastic Bantam
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4:55pm Tue 12 Feb 13
Pricey878
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5:18pm Tue 12 Feb 13
tinytoonster
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5:43pm Tue 12 Feb 13
use the cup run money and pay em back!
i'm not one by the way.
Andy2010
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6:48pm Tue 12 Feb 13
Pricey878 wrote:Apparently nobody knows for sure. Depending on who you speak to in the ticket office you get a different answer everytime.
Compliamentary tickets do not count, I got that from ticket office.
Anyway obviously this was a hijack but cant understand why some fans are shooting down those that sell their stubs. Was a stupid idea (stubs) in the first place but whats wrong with some fans making a little money? Whats the difference between that and them buying 3 tickets and selling one to a work colleague for example which has been rife
silverbantam
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8:03pm Tue 12 Feb 13
There is confusion over which stubs are acceptable or not. Can you use a Complimentary ticket stub ? Or a future home match ? On ebay someone was selling a Wycombe home match stub which was postponed and not played yet ?
Also which postcodes are acceptable for buying a ticket ? Only Bradford or all of West Yorkshire or even further afield?
If these points aren't clarified by the club before Thursday there are gonna be some irate people getting upset after queuing for hours then finding they can't buy a ticket on some technicality !
undercliffebantam
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8:10pm Tue 12 Feb 13
5:43pm Tue 12 Feb 13
not in the spirit of the club, neither's letting people get 25 year season tickets then screwing em!!
use the cup run money and pay em back!
i'm not one by the way.
Great post.
I am one by the way.
Statler4
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8:44pm Tue 12 Feb 13
silverbantam wrote:Yes, you can definitely use the stubs from the postponed Wycombe game. I have those and I checked with the club yesterday.
Does anyone know if you can use the ticket stub from the next home match v Dagenham or the postponed home match against Wycombe ?
seen it all before
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9:45pm Tue 12 Feb 13
Get a life, is paying a foriegn numb nut £200,000 per week in the spirit of the game.
bet you could get as many tickets as you want at Wembley £200
seasonticketholder
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11:13pm Tue 12 Feb 13
Next it will be City trolley bus found on the moon!
Bradford_city_fan
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12:03am Wed 13 Feb 13
TirNaNog
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12:39am Wed 13 Feb 13
JamesRobertshaw
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12:57am Wed 13 Feb 13
Statler4
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8:19am Wed 13 Feb 13
TirNaNog wrote:The reporter does not simply write the story then put it in the paper. It is gone through by sub editors and chopped and changed. Even some of the leading journalists in the land can open their newspaper and read an article purportedly written by them but which bears very little resemblance to the one they wrote after the sub editors have been at it.
How naive is this reporter? Does she sit at the computer all day believing tales from Facebook/Twitter? I've heard a story she might be interested in. Apparently a young, attractive girl is being kept locked up and forced to do housework whilst her 2 sisters go out all the time and they're right munters. I've heard that Billy Pearce is involved somewhere along the line. The T&A should send her out to investigate.
cityfan608
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9:43am Wed 13 Feb 13
Andy2010
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12:05pm Wed 13 Feb 13
Bradford_city_fan wrote:Whilst I can understand your sentiment, what you encouraged others to do was wrong. Its called Shill bidding and what gives you the right to say who can and cant sell their OWN possessions
Just to clarify nobody actually paid over 2 grand for any Stubbs I run a Facebook page called Bradford city fan (feel free to take a peek) and it was my idea to get members to setup fake eBay accounts and bid them upto stupid amounts as we think its a horrendous thing to do to people. Do the T&A not research things? So relax mr Baldwin all is good. By the way can you not trace the tickets as each auction has photos showing the member number. Why should innocent people be ripped off? Remember check out Bradford city fan on Facebook we show the latest news and have debates/discussions about things happening at Bradford city!!!!
If someone is willing to pay and someone willing to sell what business is it of yours or anyone elses.
TirNaNog
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12:39pm Wed 13 Feb 13
Andy2010 wrote:Erm , no it isn't! If he was selling the tickets and getting people to artificially bump up the price THAT would be shill bidding. He's merely wrecking some chancers auction - and rightly so! I have a photo of some tickets taken from ebay that clearly show the ticket details if BCFC are interested in tracing the culprits!
Bradford_city_fan wrote:Whilst I can understand your sentiment, what you encouraged others to do was wrong. Its called Shill bidding and what gives you the right to say who can and cant sell their OWN possessions
Just to clarify nobody actually paid over 2 grand for any Stubbs I run a Facebook page called Bradford city fan (feel free to take a peek) and it was my idea to get members to setup fake eBay accounts and bid them upto stupid amounts as we think its a horrendous thing to do to people. Do the T&A not research things? So relax mr Baldwin all is good. By the way can you not trace the tickets as each auction has photos showing the member number. Why should innocent people be ripped off? Remember check out Bradford city fan on Facebook we show the latest news and have debates/discussions about things happening at Bradford city!!!!
If someone is willing to pay and someone willing to sell what business is it of yours or anyone elses.
Andy2010
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1:11pm Wed 13 Feb 13
TirNaNog wrote:OK fair enough but what business is it of his or others in his little gang to wreck other peoples auctions?
Andy2010 wrote:Erm , no it isn't! If he was selling the tickets and getting people to artificially bump up the price THAT would be shill bidding. He's merely wrecking some chancers auction - and rightly so! I have a photo of some tickets taken from ebay that clearly show the ticket details if BCFC are interested in tracing the culprits!
Bradford_city_fan wrote:Whilst I can understand your sentiment, what you encouraged others to do was wrong. Its called Shill bidding and what gives you the right to say who can and cant sell their OWN possessions
Just to clarify nobody actually paid over 2 grand for any Stubbs I run a Facebook page called Bradford city fan (feel free to take a peek) and it was my idea to get members to setup fake eBay accounts and bid them upto stupid amounts as we think its a horrendous thing to do to people. Do the T&A not research things? So relax mr Baldwin all is good. By the way can you not trace the tickets as each auction has photos showing the member number. Why should innocent people be ripped off? Remember check out Bradford city fan on Facebook we show the latest news and have debates/discussions about things happening at Bradford city!!!!
If someone is willing to pay and someone willing to sell what business is it of yours or anyone elses.
none whatsoever. would it not be the same as for example if I objected against someone selling something they owned simple because I didnt like the idea?
Like i said I understand the sentiment and grievance but it was not his/her or any of their little gangs business to get involved
dannbradfc
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2:00pm Wed 13 Feb 13
Prisoner Cell Block A wrote:For real my wife had put my Villa home tickets in the recycle bin. I couldn't find them on the morning of the game, the same day the bins were put out for collection.
Edinburgh -bantam wrote: City's cup final is proving a boost to journalists who have to fill column inches.I'm just waiting for "the dog ate my ticket story" Next week we'll have " The arrival of overseas Bantams", followed by "The Players' Wives' Cup Final hairstyles" Tomorrow " The start of the queue" then "The hard luck story-I was next but they'd all been sold"My wife has just pulled the 'dog got your tickets' on me, she called to say they had arrived but then really downbeat said "sorry but the dog got them" believable until I remembered they came registered post. Cow. :)
Thus had i not checked and waited till i got home they wouild have gone and quite possibly so would have the wife.......
tyker2 says...
9:14am Tue 12 Feb 13