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Trade Me and Rugby World Cup tickets
We’ve received a few enquiries about selling Rugby World Cup 2011 tickets on Trade Me. The starting point for Trade Me is pretty simple: we really want Rugby World Cup 2011 to be a massive success, so we won’t do anything that might undermine this.
Rugby World Cup 2011 is a “major event” under the 2007 Major Events Management Act, which means that tickets can’t be sold above face value. The T&Cs of the tickets also prevent resale or transfer to anyone you don’t know personally. So to be safe, you should assume you can only pass on tickets to friends and loved ones.
However, it’s possible a secondary market will be set up closer to the event. We’re talking to the good people at RWC 2011 about ideas for this, but it’s potentially a complicated little beast, and nothing has been decided yet.
It’s also important to remember that for any event, we don’t let people sell tickets they don’t have. People won’t be in possession of their RWC 2011 tickets until about a year from now, so even if we do end up allowing ticket sales, they won’t be able to be listed until then at the earliest.
In case you were wondering, tickets are a pretty tiny part of our business, not a huge money-spinner. We’d need to do some special work to cater for the conditions around RWC 2011, but we’d like to be part of the event in a constructive way. In simple terms: if we can help, we will.
If there are any interesting developments we’ll post an update here, plus RWC 2011 has lots of useful info at rugbyworldcup.com, or you can follow them on Facebook.