The fears of World Cup organisers were realised on Friday when ticket re-sale offers appeared on eBay only hours after applicants learned whether or not they had been successful in the draw for World Cup match tickets.
"All we can do is warn people to steer well clear of such offers," said Horst Schmidt, senior vice-president of the Organising Committee. "Fans obtaining tickets in this way may find themselves denied admission at the turnstiles."A total of 812,000 tickets were drawn on 15th April, with winners and losers being notified by e-mail last Friday. Yet within hours, tickets were on sale at inflated prices.Organisers are going to unprecedented lengths to eliminate black market ticket sales for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, citing security concerns and the need to combat hooliganism.The ticket application form required a high degree of personal information from applicants, and this data will be used to personalise the tickets, which can only be transferred for a genuine reason, and with the approval of the Organising Committee.Each ticket will also contain a unique identifier in the form of an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tag.RFID tags consist of a microchip and a tiny antenna that transmits data from the chip to a reader, which will be located at electronically controlled turnstiles, allowing the validity of the ticket to be checked when presented before a match."There could be problems if the ticket and personal ID fail to match, exactly as there would be with an airline ticket," warned Schmidt. "We've said it often enough before, and we're saying it again: tickets are only transferable for good reasons – and profiteering isn't a good reason."The Committee is considering legal action against those selling on the black market."The terms and conditions of sale have unquestionably been breached, and copyrights infringed. The people making these offers do not have the right to transfer tickets allocated to them to third parties," said Schmidt.
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