Ticket resellers are not the business of gold

Laurence Houde-Roy / 24 HOURS

Laurence Houde-Roy

Sunday, 30 July, 2017 22:01

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Ticket resellers, who were entered for the race of Formula E were not in the business of gold, Sunday, just 30 minutes before the start of the final.

Four dealers were stationed at Berri-UQAM metro in the hope of reselling tickets to the final of the Grand prix of Formula E. one of them, met by the 24-Hours, said to have fifty tickets but had sold only 5, just 30 minutes before the final.

These tickets that he sold most of them had been bought on the street, ” explained his colleague, to persons who could not attend the race. None of the tickets sold by the dealers had been purchased more expensive than the minimum price of access sold by the promoter, or 45$, or more expensive. Some had been bought for 10$, 20$ or 30$, and then sell more expensive, but falls short of$45.

Another dealer was selling on tickets that had no price. He said he was working for another person, who had obtained these tickets free of charge, after you have purchased a large amount of tickets.

His colleague said in the 24 Hours that “a lot of the tickets had been given away for free by the promoter to fill the stands [since] this is not a big event”. It has been impossible to validate this information from the promoter, Evenko. Some car dealerships, in particular, have received several free tickets.