I am sitting here writing this entry as I have plenty of time – I am waiting online to purchase tickets for next year’s cricket Test and one-day games between Australia and England. It is going to be a huge Ashes contest after the Poms unexpectedly beat us last year.
The tickets were released today to those who had signed up early (which I did) though there is a long wait for web pages to load on the ticketing website. If there is going to be a sellout at the MCG I want to be there. They sold out for the soccer last week and I missed out on tickets for that.
After a few hours online I eventually got the tickets I was after. It was tempting to get some extra tickets to sell on eBay – already there are many there illegally selling for greatly inflated prices. Cricket Australia is trying hard to stop the sales, but I can’t see how they can unless they can somehow find out the ticket numbers and cancel them.
Maybe they should have had a ballot system like they did for the Olympic Games tickets. The current system disadvantaged those without internet and those who did not have the time to sit around waiting for pages to load. Apparently, the phone booking system was just as slow, and you were not able to go in and book the tickets in person.
Let’s hope they can sort it out and that a fair system for all is worked out as the population and interest are just getting bigger while the ground sizes are not.
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