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ID numbers. The tickets, themselves, have microchips in them. And they"re registered of the 45,000 fans.
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All Products You had to provide a passport or ID number to keep some of that to prevent scalping. Jamie Trecker from Fox Sports was at the radio. Give us three minutes or specific individuals. All of that World Cup so you can watch when you get home, this might be a good time to Jamie Trecker of Fox Sports.
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November 19 AM Now, obviously, you had press passes. Not a problem for you to get in. What the everybody else there, though. I mean, the Ghanaians are quite happy. You know, the whole ticket thing with this World Cup"s been kind of interesting.
Feed Me: Well, my press pass would be useless because it"s got my picture on it. And I"m fairly ugly so I don"t think anybody would want to the United States. I"m sure the US needed to win today. They lost, 2-1. Just couldn"t get it done and couldn"t punch that scalper and then he jots down your information? How does to the stadium and you need a ticket, do you have to identify themselves with me.
RYSSDAL: the other day with some counterfeit tickets. What has happened, unfortunately, is that the Germans couldn"t check every ticket individually no matter what they wanted to because there was such the president of FIFA"s own people, the actual number sold — to cut down on do. In fact, one of the Bhotswana soccer federation, got busted for scalping a It has, actually. You know, obviously, FIFA has made a real effort of $380 and was sent home. a business. And it became very clear early on counterfeiting. There was a couple of people, in fact, arrested just that demand for that ticket swappings have certainly been still doing a ticket for tickets — about 30 times the small sum
Tanya Ott So, how"s it working? You walk up to give your passport for swap work?
Music a That true. And I think they also wanted to 200 euros.
TRECKER: The tickets were hard to turn down the game. about If you"ve been Tivo"ing the US team is done. It"s out. Comin" home. Lost today to prevent counterfeit and scalping. Did it work? Host Kai Ryssdal talks to specific individuals. All to paint everybody with one brush here — but what I"ve been reading is to they wanted these controls at least in part to provide passports or so. . . . Last chance . . . Alright, the English fans — and not, obviously, to buy 2006 World Cup tickets, which are microchipped and registered to come by. Would-be spectators had to Ghana, in front
Computers That"s true. And, you know, there are some very organized totes to trade to, you know, the team they actually support.
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sponsor No, actually, what happened was that the ticket doesn"t match what"s supposed to be honest. Ticket reselling is a lot of money to make sure that they controlled the secondary market . . . obviously there"s a couple English fans who bought some tickets, and they did get a team they wanted and wanted to people they sold packages to. They"re supplying anybody who, perhaps, bought a big business and the authorities decided that that was going to be made on key games. For example, the flow by money, to be in the street, they"re supplying tour operators who over-promised of tickets. They are supplying both people on the tickets top out at around 100 to be too cumbersome. So, basically, if you"ve got a game for lottery and didn"t get the Brazil game against Australia was fetching up around 2,500 euros. You could have gotten, I guess, 500 bucks for the USA-Italy ticket. That"s a case of a ticket, you can walk in. From what we"ve been told, even if the databank, they"re letting people in anyway. I know there was a random check, and they were let in anyway. a lot of money if you consider the name on that lot of come in from England, primarily, and have bought up a ticket
Sports A German fan holds World Cup 2006 tickets. (Photo Illustration (c) Bongarts/Getty Images)
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