Seen any World Cup Price gouging starting? Best example is SAA: Need to go to Johannesburg from Cape Town for business during the world cup? It's going to cost you R7 280!
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Sepp Bladder
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Fresnaye, Avenue de Berrange, 4 bed house, all the crap and oh, 5 minutes walk to the FIFO(Fit In Or Fuck Off) 2110 Word Cub soccer stadium.
Gouge all you want, buy as many tickets as you can - they ain't coming. First FIFA releases bed-nights back to hotels from MATCH and now they release cheap tickets to the South Africans that the overseas people aren't buying.
There will be full stadiums come June, just full of South Africans.
As for the people hoping to get rich quick, Sorry for you!
Rumour has it that the top 5 B&Bs in Newlands have had one - ONE - World Cup booking between them so far. The rest have had zilch, not even local bookings as people are staying in their bunkers until the gouging stops.
Last night I had dinner with two other couples. Both had "won" in the WC ticket "lottery" - got sets of double tickets for both games they applied for. When 100% of the people who applied for tickets get 100% of the tickets they applied for, that ain't a lottery. That's desperate FIFA profiteers looking to flog everything they can before it all goes poof.
The lottery was real but only for the cheap R140 category 4 seats. I've applied multiple times for the cheap stuff but only got two games out of perhaps 10 requests.
However my friends who have applied in category 3 have literally got every seat they asked for including a friend who got tickets to every knockout game including semis and finals up in JHB.
Also I should add is that according to the FIFA website you can't buy any more tickets for the Cape Town games (the only city thats sold out so far). Perhaps more will come out when last minute over-the-counter sales start in April.
But there are some great games: Protugal Vs Cote' D'Ivoire in PE. Greece Vs Nigeria in Bloem, Serbia vs Ghana & USA vs Algeria in PTA, Greece vs Argentina in Polokwane & France vs Mexico, - that still have plenty of cheap tickets available.
I don't know about you guys but I REFUSE to buy a WC ticket. I've paid for the whole thing already out of my rates and taxes, not to mention the fallout from the social deficit (crime, lack of services, deranged jobless people) I will have to cope with in daily life thanks to this FIFA abortion.
Speaking to someone who is involved in the Brazil World Cup in 2014 and the government REFUSED to build more stadiums for FIFA. They said "that's what we got". Our government built 9! 9 multi-billion rand stadiums! All of them to never be used at capacity ever again.
Greece hosted both the Euro in 2004 and the Olympics and spent money on public infrastructure and now the country is bankrupt.
I have a feeling we will pay for this world cup for the next 50 years.
I think the Vuvuzelas were a big marketing error - I find the noise on the TV very annoying - the last thing I would want is to actually be in the stadium with all that racket - I predict that it will become a big issue as the matches start to be played - I suspect there is going to be a backlash from global football fans.
I'm waiting until after the world cup to move into a cape town apartment,
I'm hoping there will be a lot available for rent. I think by August 25% of the apartments that are on offer for a few thousand rand a day for the world cup will be in the long-term rental marketplace.
Hopefully there'll be enough owners with their fingers burned that I can snap up a great deal.
Would be great if you could do a post about this. Cool blog.
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Fresnaye, Avenue de Berrange, 4 bed house, all the crap and oh, 5 minutes walk to the FIFO(Fit In Or Fuck Off) 2110 Word Cub soccer stadium.
R 680.000/month.
http://is.gd/8Oa2s
http://london.thesouthafrican.com/sa-property/Top-5-most-expensive-World-Cup-rentals
Gouge all you want, buy as many tickets as you can - they ain't coming. First FIFA releases bed-nights back to hotels from MATCH and now they release cheap tickets to the South Africans that the overseas people aren't buying.
There will be full stadiums come June, just full of South Africans.
As for the people hoping to get rich quick, Sorry for you!
Rumour has it that the top 5 B&Bs in Newlands have had one - ONE - World Cup booking between them so far. The rest have had zilch, not even local bookings as people are staying in their bunkers until the gouging stops.
Last night I had dinner with two other couples. Both had "won" in the WC ticket "lottery" - got sets of double tickets for both games they applied for. When 100% of the people who applied for tickets get 100% of the tickets they applied for, that ain't a lottery. That's desperate FIFA profiteers looking to flog everything they can before it all goes poof.
The lottery was real but only for the cheap R140 category 4 seats. I've applied multiple times for the cheap stuff but only got two games out of perhaps 10 requests.
However my friends who have applied in category 3 have literally got every seat they asked for including a friend who got tickets to every knockout game including semis and finals up in JHB.
Also I should add is that according to the FIFA website you can't buy any more tickets for the Cape Town games (the only city thats sold out so far). Perhaps more will come out when last minute over-the-counter sales start in April.
But there are some great games: Protugal Vs Cote' D'Ivoire in PE. Greece Vs Nigeria in Bloem, Serbia vs Ghana & USA vs Algeria in PTA, Greece vs Argentina in Polokwane & France vs Mexico, - that still have plenty of cheap tickets available.
I don't know about you guys but I REFUSE to buy a WC ticket. I've paid for the whole thing already out of my rates and taxes, not to mention the fallout from the social deficit (crime, lack of services, deranged jobless people) I will have to cope with in daily life thanks to this FIFA abortion.
Speaking to someone who is involved in the Brazil World Cup in 2014 and the government REFUSED to build more stadiums for FIFA. They said "that's what we got". Our government built 9! 9 multi-billion rand stadiums! All of them to never be used at capacity ever again.
Greece hosted both the Euro in 2004 and the Olympics and spent money on public infrastructure and now the country is bankrupt.
I have a feeling we will pay for this world cup for the next 50 years.
I think the Vuvuzelas were a big marketing error - I find the noise on the TV very annoying - the last thing I would want is to actually be in the stadium with all that racket - I predict that it will become a big issue as the matches start to be played - I suspect there is going to be a backlash from global football fans.
Thanks go to Pedro Espi Sanchis (of Pedro the Musicman fame) and his vuvuzela orchestra
http://vimeo.com/3854584
Dont complain about the noise of the vuvuzela, come help us make music with it.
www.vuvuzelaorchestra.co.za
0027 842300683
I'm waiting until after the world cup to move into a cape town apartment,
I'm hoping there will be a lot available for rent. I think by August 25% of the apartments that are on offer for a few thousand rand a day for the world cup will be in the long-term rental marketplace.
Hopefully there'll be enough owners with their fingers burned that I can snap up a great deal.
Would be great if you could do a post about this. Cool blog.
@ previous anonymous
You read my mind china.
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