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Trevor Allan (34)
Remember back in February when there was lots of excitement that the Lions test tickets had sold out in 15 minutes?

Well it turns out 'sold' wasn't quite right! Bill Pulver is now quoted by Greg Growden as saying:

We actually never said the tickets sold out. What we said was that the allocations were exhausted. You allocate tickets to all the clubs, and the travel agents. On occasions some will come back. Still for Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, we expect those stadia to be full.
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Here's the announcement from the ARU in February and it's clear that we'll all have to read ARU releases very carefully to watch out for those tricky words like 'allocations' in the future as the ARU didn't actually say 'sold', although it's easy to see how that was what was reported.
 
suckerforred

suckerforred

Chilla Wilson (44)
So is there any news on when said 'unsold allocations' will be released to Joe Public?

I have all the tickets I need but know of others still chasing.
 
Braveheart81

Braveheart81

Will Genia (78)
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This is the same for just about every major ticketed event. Substantial percentages of the initial tickets don't go on sale as they are allocated elsewhere.

Often there will be a later sale of tickets if some of those extra tickets weren't actually required by the clubs/tour operators/sponsors as was the case with the Lions tests.

I don't think the ARU has done anything deceptive here. If they didn't announce that they'd sold all their ticket allocations people would get a bit miffed if they went on to Ticketek and couldn't buy tickets because it said allocation exhausted for everything.
 
JSRF10

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Dick Tooth (41)
Its something I've noticed since coming to Australia, the media reports that games are sold out then on TV I see empty blocks of seats. Perhaps in this situation we should be asking why the media didn't do 10 minutes research and they'd have probably found out that more tickets were going to go on sale, plus the tickets there were available on weloverugby etc.
 
Jets

Jets

Paul McLean (56)
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I have no issue with the ARU over this, made better as I picked up 4 tickets to the Brisbane test in the reallocation. It's just the way of modern sporting events. It's probably a sign that the global economy is changing and we wont have stadiums full of Lions supporters as we had in 2001.
 
Braveheart81

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Will Genia (78)
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Jets said:
I have no issue with the ARU over this, made better as I picked up 4 tickets to the Brisbane test in the reallocation. It's just the way of modern sporting events. It's probably a sign that the global economy is changing and we wont have stadiums full of Lions supporters as we had in 2001.
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I wouldn't be so sure. More of them will just already live here than in previous series. :D
 
Inside Shoulder

Inside Shoulder

Nathan Sharpe (72)
Braveheart81 said:
This is the same for just about every major ticketed event. Substantial percentages of the initial tickets don't go on sale as they are allocated elsewhere.

Often there will be a later sale of tickets if some of those extra tickets weren't actually required by the clubs/tour operators/sponsors as was the case with the Lions tests.

I don't think the ARU has done anything deceptive here. If they didn't announce that they'd sold all their ticket allocations people would get a bit miffed if they went on to Ticketek and couldn't buy tickets because it said allocation exhausted for everything.
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Yeah - Taylor Swift was "sold out" but they only allocated 1600 tickets to the public
 
Scoey

Scoey

Tony Shaw (54)
As far as I know, tickets to the Reds, Force, Tahs and Brumbies Tour matches are available still.
 
Braveheart81

Braveheart81

Will Genia (78)
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It was on an episode of the ABC show The Checkout (from two of the Chaser guys; Julian Morrow and Craig Reucassel).

They did a story about the ticketing industry and the myths around ticket scalping.
 
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