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Originally Posted by Messie
They do cricket matches for insects??  |
Ha, silly phone keyboard.
If a ticket website says 'tickets not surrently available' it means one of several things.
- All of the allocation of tickets already out on sale are sold but there may be more going on sale at a later date.
- The seller is waiting for sponsors and agents to decide if they will be using their full allocation. They have to inform the seller by a certain date and at that ponit the unused tickets will go back on sale.
- The seller is waiting to see how many returns they get from the public is they offer a returns service and on a given date these tickets will be put back on sale.
However, if there is a ballot or a waiting list then any availlable tickets will first be allocated to the people on this list. If after this there are still tickets available then these will go on sale.
As an example, we sell tickets for the Test match at Lord's via a ballot. If everyone in the ballot gets a ticket the rest go on general sale. Once all of those are sold we say 'tickets currently unavailable'.
A couple of weeks before the match Brit Insurance, adidas, Investec, etc. who all have sponsorship allocations of tickets may say they only need 70% of their allocation and so we then sell the rest via our website.
Then a few days before the game we will put on sale any returns from the public. They only get a refund if we actually manage to sell their tickets for them, but many venues don't even offer this service. MCC do as it cuts down on touting. This is why we always advise people to buy tickets only from us and not via ebay, as if it rains the person who bought the ticket from us gets the refund not the buyer who uses the 'secondary ticket market' as touts are quaintly called these days.