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[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, that's off. Especially taken in conjunction with this:

The tickets were “allocated at no charge [0 USD] due to a prior payment issue during the checkout process,” Fifa said

So a tranche of impossible tickets shows up for sale on the World Cup site a full three months after the head of FIFA announced the games were sold out, the one guy who would know for sure but somehow did not, and are then very quietly made available much later on a single day in such a way that the buyers are making what looks like a standard purchase of tickets, except the system is also just as bizarrely set to charge them $0.

Do people actually keep checking on the official site instead of resellers for available tickets long after they're supposed to have been sold out?

Huh. I don't know enough about how FIFA ticket sales work to know with any certainty, but at first glance it looks almost like a plan that worked exactly as it was supposed to, except that some people who were not the intended recipients lucked into it as well.

It could also be something FIFA did not set up directly, but an insider or group of insiders who figured out a way to set aside some tickets, and now FIFA's collecting after the fact.

Or it could all just be a magically lucky series of coincidences. I really don't know but it's hinky as hell.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Do people actually keep checking on the official site instead of resellers for available tickets long after they're supposed to have been sold out?

Of course not! They have the bots do it.