One of the sights at the Beijing Olympics that greeted television viewers around the world was empty seats at supposedly sold out events. Outside the venues, scalpers were trying to unload tickets, sometimes in full view of police. Will the same thing happen in Singapore?
The Singapore Grand Prix is sold out with a few hospitality spots left. However, a quick search of the eBay Singapore website throws up 61 “fans” trying to unload tickets ranging from walkabout to pit grandstand tickets. Judging by the prices, some of the scalpers are trying to reap close to 100% profit on their tickets.
What is more interesting is the lack of bids for most of the tickets. Out of the 61 items, only 15 had bids. If that’s the state of affairs come Friday morning, the day of the first practise session, the Singapore Grand Prix won’t be so grand after all for these opportunists.
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Oh, I see! I never bought anything on eBay before. Thanks for enlightening me. 🙂
The thing about Ebay is that most ‘veteran’ Ebayers do not place their bid until the very last minute! Its a tactical online battle. I was helping a friend sell a couple of GP tickets on Ebay and it was very quiet on the first 2 days. On the third and final day, however, the dozen of ‘Watchers’ suddenly came alive and the final minute saw a surge of frantic bidding and the winner is but the lucky one who placed the highest bid in the very last second!