Ateneo-La Salle tickets at eBay fetch hefty price

Got money to pay? Then try eBay.

There’s only one place to go if you’re that desperate to get tickets for Game One of the UAAP championship showdown between fierce rivals Ateneo and La Salle.

That’s www.eBay.ph.

After tickets to Sunday’s series opener were sold out as soon as the booths opened the other day, some of them are now being sold online – for a very hefty price.

Six days before the first game of the best-of-three series, an eBay seller is offering an Upper Box A ticket, with a face value of P220, for P6,000.

“Rare event! Tickets are very hard to find!!! Please do not contact me to haggle. Payment through Gcash (online),” the seller posted.

“Meet up in Araneta (Coliseum) on Game Day for the ticket. Bid with Confidence! I will not risk my 100 percent, 40+ feedback (eBay rating),” it added.

In a different post, the same seller is offering a package deal of Games One and Two tickets starting at P10,000.

Ticketnet, the official ticketing station of the UAAP, however, said tickets for the second game or a third game if necessary aren’t out yet.

“Tickets for Game One are already sold out, but tickets to the next games are not yet available until the next few days,” the teller said yesterday.

The same seller on eBay has also offered a ticket to Game Three for bidding starting at P6,000.

For the finals, tickets are priced at P350 (patron), P300 (lower box), P250 (upper A), P95 (upper B) and P55 (general admission).

The National Bureau of Investigation, however, has already issued a warning to scalpers who are hoping to sell their tickets at a much higher price

Agent Johnny Logrono of the NBI Task Force said they will be on the lookout for scalpers before, during or after the games at the Big Dome.

Even the public has been warned not to buy tickets from scalpers.

During the Ateneo-La Salle game last Sept. 6 at the Big Dome, close to 22,000 fans came to watch, some of them paying as much as P7,000 for a patron ticket then worth only P250.

The NBI rounded up 15 persons (scalpers) although only six of them, including a security guard of a popular coffee shop, were brought in for inquest.

When the series begins, Logrono said the NBI will be on the lookout not only for scalpers but their sources, and the buyers as well. – Abac Cordero