Tickets for Argentina vs Brazil: Not so hard-to-get as they could be
Tuesday, 19 August 08, 01:40 AM · Comments(0)
BEIJING (CHINA) - Brazil vs Argentina in a World Cup would be Premium football tickets. In Beijing, the semifinal in the Summer Olympics Games football competition is not so hard to get a ticket as they could be.
Popular, but not so much in China, football is also not a really winning medal sport to the hosts, which keep beating hard the Americans in the overall gold medal standings.
I have my own media pass to the game but I decided, in the name of this blog, walk around and talk to some of the guys selling tickets on major venues. Suprisingly, I could find many people selling them. No so cheap, of course, but I saw at least 30 tickets in less than 15 minutes.
The guys selling, with one or two exceptions, are Chinese guys and they definately don't look like professional resellers. They probably bought those tickets long time ago to make some money. I say that cause you could see one ticket only from each kind in thier hands, mostly of athletics and table tennis and badminton, very popular sports in China.
The football ticket official price category C costs 200 yuan. This is about U$ 33. The first guy that I met with a ticket told me he would sell it for 3,000 yuan. 1400% overprice (about U$ 500). I tried to negotiate but he said no.
I moved on and a couple of blocks away I found a pair of tickets. This time the guy said he would make 5,000 yuan for both. A better offer indeed. This guy could speak English a little so I tried, not to negotiate, but ask why those tickets were so ‘expensive’.
He probably knew about football as much as I know about badminton. Anyway, he was smart enough to buy those too a month ago e even smarter to study about the game he was seelling. He told me: “This game is better than the final.”
As we can see, the Chinese don’t necessarily need to know anything about what they are selling to make good business.
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mautex
São Paulo, BR
Mauricio Teixeira, editor do OleOle no Brasil, fala sobre os bastidores do futebol brasileiro e mundial. Vídeos, games, opinião, links bacanas e mais
