Fed up with tickets appearing on Ebay for vastly inflated prices? It is actually against Ebay policy. If you see one, you can ask Ebay to remove it . You need to be logged in to Ebay, then go to the following page:

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/contact_us/_base/index.html

Choose the right options (Prohibited (banned) items > Event tickets > Football tickets) then click the email us link. You simply paste in the item number and ebay does the rest.

The actual Ebay policy is listed below:

The resale of tickets for football matches is highly regulated in England and Wales for a number of reasons, including security at sports events. Criminal law often prohibits the resale of such football tickets. For these reasons, all listings for football tickets to association football matches occurring in England or Wales, or involving an English or Welsh national or club team playing outside England or Wales, are prohibited.

In addition, all listings for tickets to association football matches occurring anywhere in the world that are part of a competition or tournament organised by FIFA or UEFA and that an English or Welsh national or club team has participated in, or is eligible to participate in, are also prohibited.

For the avoidance of doubt this prohibition includes (without limitation) the following matches:

* English Premiership, Football League, Football Conference and League of Wales matches
* World Cup and European Championships matches (including qualifying rounds)
* International matches played in England or Wales (including friendlies)
* Friendlies involving England or Wales

eBay may allow authorised sellers to list football tickets to these matches, but only through prior written agreement with eBay.

Reporting prohibited, questionable & infringing items to eBay

there's some Dundee tink selling two on ebay. says he canna make it cause of work but they went on at the back of ten this morning and he is a new member. sounda fishy to me.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Scotland-V-France-EU...1QQcmdZViewItem

Tickets sitting at 1mil bet he's booked his tickets to the carib already

now over 2 mill

Who gives a f**k? The game is a sell out, the tickets will go one way or another.

Do we know if this guy has a prior agreement with eBay? Does anyone know what form this agreement takes?

Who is to say that someone with money prepared to pay for the tickets is any less deserving than one of these tartan wearing face painted foot-soldier types who also missed out on a ticket?

Are any of you moaning minnies actually going to the game? If so, why get your knickers in a twist?

just reported the scum bag -yes he'll get them sold one way or another but no going to make it easy for him

It's been withdrawn
Someone buying two tickets with the sole purpose of selling them on at profit is wrong and the mugs that buy them are just as bad.

So did i

The point is that one of the reasons tickets sell out so fast is because people who have no plans on actually going to the game purchase them with the sole intention of selling them for a profit. This goes equally well for concerts etc. Why does T in the Park sell out in less than an hour? Why do the tickets for the Scotland game sell out so quickly?

I am not saying they won't sell out quickly anyway. I think that if people are unable to resell them on ebay easily, in future they will not buy them, and leave them for people who actually plan to go.



It's because people cannot get tickets they are moaning.

That, in fact, has got bog all to do with Scottish games Maybe someone ought to contact eBay

Edited for being a muppet.

Nice weather we're having, eh?

Not on this thread apparently

Sounds to me like a bunch of moaning halfwits who have just dobbed someone in for doing something that is not illegal.

Would you buy a £30 Scottish Cup final ticket for your club on eBay for say, £60?

Would you be happy if some self important fanny had your winning bid invalidated because they didn't think someone had the right to sell it on? What makes football tickets (or concert tickets) sacred? Was there an outcry regarding the re-selling of Xbox 360s last christmas? Some folk bought up a few to sell on eBay, depriving others of a new games console. Surely it's the same thing?

1) Because touts are getting so out of hand it's almost impossible to see some events at the price you are meant to. Are sporting and musical events only meant to be for the very wealthy?

2) It is the same thing - that's shit behaviour too.

Then everyone's beef should be with eBay itself. Unless you don't have a problem as long as the stuff being sold is of no interest to yourself

I just reported someone who had 2 tickets going for more than a million

I guess you have to be a football fan to understand that this is wrong.

If eBay didn't think it was illegal then they wouldn't have removed them. Anyway, on the back of Scotland tickets it clearly states that the tickets cannot be re-sold for more than face value. So it is illegal. The reason football tickets are so "sacred" is because football games are one offs. If you don't get a ticket you will never be able to go to that game. But there are thousands of X-Box's made every day so you will get one sooner or later.
Anyway, if you went to all Falkirk's Scottish Cup games in a season, then lost out on a ticket to the final because some ticket tout got in first and put it on eBay, would you not be moaning to ?

Yes it does.


It's illegal to sell these tickets. Read the terms and conditions again.

Wait til just before their auction is about to end then bid a silly amount - more fun that way.

Already made a daft bid on one and will be again. Followed by a report to fleabay.

Btw, had my ticket for ages.

Any fans that dont have tickets and think they've no chance of getting one - get up to the game early and go to one of the pubs the Tartan Army drink in. I know of a few guys that have went up and got tickets off real fans at face value, even when the games have been sold out.

The eBay statement was purely outlining the law as it pertains to England & Wales

Not at all. I understand why you think it's wrong just fine. I just disagree without resorting to taking melodramatic cheap shots at you


I'd buy that ticket knowing full well that someone was making money out of me. Are you saying to me that if Airdrie made it to Hampden and you missed out on a ticket you would not purchase the eBay ticket going for £50/60?

If so, I don't believe you for a goddamn minute

I would indeed buy it. But I would rather buy it for face value and that's why these ticket touts should be stopped.

No it wasn't. Read it again.

It prohibits, IN ADDITION to the sales of tickets for matches in England and Wales, the listing of a ticket for any match in any competition for which any English or Welsh team is eligible or has competed in. Ergo, a ticket for a European Championship game may not be listed on E-Bay.

Hairy muff. So, Scottish Cup, CIS Cup and Challenge Cup final tickets are perfectly sellable items on eBay then (don't fecking mention Berwick )

It would appear so, at least as far as E-Bay are concerned. However, as these tickets normally have as one of the conditions on the back that they may not be sold for profit or may not be resold, it would still be illegal to sell these, and I'm sure E-Bay would remove the listing if it was pointed out to them.

Bloody annoying ebay, I've got two spare tickets to flog , Grrrrrrr

Doesn't really bother me if people want to go to home games join the SSC instead of just turning up for the big games like France and Italy.

im sure plenty of people on here would buy them at the original price

As an ex member of the Travel Club, I think a Scotland season ticket would be better at the start of each season or campaign.

Which is the price Id let tickets go for if I couldnt make it or had spare tickets.

Wanting anything more is just greed.

ebay is a joke.they say its illegal to sell on tickets now through ebay.however i can list tickets for scotland v france on ebay germany,www.ebay.com,ebay canada,etc.you dont have to be in those countries to list your tickets.i bought my world cup tickets on www.ebay.de,from people all over the world including uk.if you want tickets you can go onto ebay uk and place an ad want it now asking for scotland/ france tickets.i not for or against ticket selling,but it not the fault of those who want to sell them on,why not blame the suppliers who let people buy tickets in bulk

i very much doubt it,ebay have a long list of unacceptable items which they in fact tend not to enforce even if things are pointed out to them

Well you're wrong then, as E-Bay have been removing these tickets.

someone's listed some recently which are currently selling for more than twice the face value, check out the current winning bidders username

tickets

Item removed, as I said.

only because i grassed them up

Good man.