Advert for ticket tout.

ArmaniJeanss

One of the (top of page) Ads on the Soccer Forum leads to this website
http://www.euroteam.net/EN/Football-World-Cup-2010-tickets/World-Cup-2010-TST-3-tickets/56253-Follow-Ireland-tickets--South-Africa

where you can buy tickets for, say, Irelands 3 possible group games in the Fifa World Cup.
Price of ticket for Category 1 seats for the 3 games is €1796.

Can also apply to buy them at face value on Fifa's official site where the same Category 1 3gameticket would be $528.
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/organisation/ticketing/pricesandmatches.html

Big difference between 1796EUR and 528USD so the ad site is selling at 4+ times face value, ridiculous touting.

I'd like to think that no-one here would be stupid enough to pay that sort of money to a tout so it probably doesn't matter, but should boards be accepting an ad from such a vendor?

Steve

Report the post - that way the relevant mods will be notified and take action if necessary. they mightn't see this thread in time.:)

Blowfish

Steve wrote: »

Report the post - that way the relevant mods will be notified and take action if necessary. they mightn't see this thread in time.:)

It's not a post, it's an ad.

biko

If it's a Google ad we can't really do anything about it I think.
We just sell them a frame, they put anything they want in it.

cornbb

biko wrote: »

If it's a Google ad we can't really do anything about it I think.
We just sell them a frame, they put anything they want in it.

They've managed to block specific categories of ads before AFAIK (although I could be wrong here)

Steve

Blowfish wrote: »

It's not a post, it's an ad.

Yeah, sorry, I realise that now.
I think google-ads picks up on keywords in the thread and selects a related ad to display.

cornbb wrote: »

They've managed to block specific categories of ads before AFAIK (although I could be wrong here)

I remember reading something about that as well.

stovelid

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

Big difference between 1796EUR and 528USD so the ad site is selling at 4+ times face value, ridiculous touting.

I just use my out-of-the-box stupidity filtering to block myself from buying them.