I found an interesting article in the tech section at smh.com.au. I don’t normally read the tech section, but I found this and decided to take a look.

I have to applaud Cricket Australia for their decision to cancel a reported 1300 tickets for this summer’s (Australian) Ashes series that have been bought from auction sites such as ebay. It is always frustrating when you wait hours upon end to buy tickets online only to miss out, but no more than 5 minutes later the tickets are up on the auction sites with asking prices that, at a minimum, are twice the face value of the original ticket price.

The headline following England’s first ever cricket defeat

Ever since the English regained the Ashes for the first time since 1989, the rematch in Australia this year has been one of the most anticipated sporting events, for both countries, in recent memory. Cricket Australia has done the right thing by trying to ensure that the action will be available at a reasonable price for those who are lucky enough to get tickets, but hopefully they will learn from the mistakes they made while selling the tickets online and implement new systems in the future that ensure the general public, and not online scalpers who are out to exploit the public, get the best access to these tickets.

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