Forgive me if I am wrong but I believe the rules are pretty clear.
No profiteering from the sale or purchase of tickets from this forum.
Whatever anyone does outside this forum is fine, including anyone selling on auction sites, any other sites and people who receive private offers for tickets. I believe Smokie has made that clear.
I believe Joe90 never offered the tickets here, but other people on the forum pointed out what was happening elsewhere, which was clearly outside of the forum. For some reason, this created a certain amount of near hysteria.
As far as I am aware, Joe 90 did not advertise his tickets here and did not breach any forum rules.
SimonKE was offered money off line for his tickets. (from a forum member no less) However, in my opinion, he did not break any forum rules, even if he chose to accept the exceptional offer.
If someone I willing to sell something, and someone is willing to buy it, at a mutually agreed price then that is down to them. As long as they do not break forum rules by advertising it at inflated prices or offering to buy items at inflated prices on the forum.
It is common knowledge that the ACO are a shambles as far as ticket ordering and allocation is concerned. Too many tickets are allocated to the major ticket agencies (P&M, MRI Just T’s) who sell them on at exorbitantly inflated prices, indeed I am sure that si where many people obtained their tickets this year.
As for Andy Z saying Joe 90 should have explained the circumstances in the first place, I have to say firstly, it was pretty obvious he was talking about more tickets than he was actually selling, and secondly, I don’t believe he should have had to explain himself because he didn’t even advertise them on the CA forum he had noting to answer to.
For goodness sake, lets move on…….and look forward to the greatest motor race on earth in less than four weeks now.
[Climbing down off soap box now!!]
Anyone fancy meeting for beer to clear the air (and our throats)
