Even if Ireland got there, we don’t think we’d pay that much.
How much would you pay for a ticket to the Rugby World Cup Final? €500? €1,000? Even more?
Unfortunately, when people are willing to pay over the odds for tickets for major events, there will always be people waiting to rip them off and that’s certainly the case with the Rugby World Cup.
The final may be a long way away at this stage, but already there are tickets on sale through secondary ticket websites such as StubHub.co.uk, where tickets are being sold for up to £7,500 (approximately €10,500).
A report in The Guardian earlier today suggested that a single ticket to the game was being advertised for a whopping £59,000 (approximately €82,800) although at the time of writing, the most expensive tickets we can find are Category A tickets costing £7,500.
Even the cheapest tickets on offer on the website are mightily expensive, costing well over £1,200 for a Category D seat at Twickenham.
Competition organisers are urging fans to buy their tickets through official sources and are hoping that legislation forcing secondary websites to publish the exact row and seat number of the tickets will have an effect as supporters with tickets purchased from unofficial sources can be refused entry to games.
Debbie Jevans, chief executive of England 2015 Rugby World Cup, is quoted in The Guardian as saying: “Our message is to buy those tickets through the official sources, not least to ensure that it is a genuine ticket and not a fraudulent one, and to ensure fans are not ripped off.
“The new legislation means secondary ticket websites will have to show the row, the seat and access of that ticket. That brings greater transparency which will allow us to have more exposure to who is selling those tickets and at what price.
“We will be monitoring these sites, this gives us the ability to do so to a greater degree and we do reserve the right to refuse access. Our terms and conditions reserve the right not to allow access if that ticket is sold through an unofficial source. We have the ability to track the tickets down.”
Here’s hoping nobody ended up buying that ticket worth £59,000; it would be a shame not to get into the game after spending all that money after all.
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