Black market booming for World Cup final tickets
Tickets selling for up to £4,000 each
28 October 2019 - 14:29
Tokyo — Rugby fans hoping to make a last-minute dash to Saturday’s World Cup final between England and SA in Japan are being quoted £800-£4,000 per ticket by touts and secondary sales websites.
The face value of the cheapest category D tickets is about £180, but several are available on ticket sites for just over four times that value. Top-level category A tickets, which cost £720 when originally sold via the official Rugby World Cup site, are on sale from just under £2,000 to as much as £4,000...
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