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Cricket Australia has appealed for government legislation to outlaw excessive profiteering of sports tickets after massive mark-ups on tickets for the Ashes Test cricket series later this year.
Prices for sought-after Ashes tickets skyrocketed on online auction sites yesterday a day after thousands of furious Australian fans missed out despite being part of a so-called Australian Cricket Family (ACF) deal.
Successful buyers flooded the eBay website to sell their tickets at greatly inflated prices, with two tickets to the opening day of the fifth and final Sydney Test fetching one bid of 15,000 dollars (11,250 US) — compared to its face value of between 47 and 113 dollars (35 and 85 US).

Posted: 06|5|06 at 8:17 am. Filed under: UK News.