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New Exchange Site for FIFA World Cup Ticket Holders

Tickets for the FIFA World Cup in Germany are hard to come buy, but what is really hard to come by are tickets of your choice. FIFA have handed out over 2.6 million tickets for the event, but the tickets where handed out using a ballot system. This approach has created around 1.7 million ticket holders ? who are not holding the tickets they wanted. These once confused ticket holders have found a way to address the problem, and they are now using the Internet for a ticker-for-ticket exchange.

The fact that FIFA and the World Cup organizing committee in Germany are adamant that there will be no authorized official exchanges ? even when fans are in mutual agreement, leaves the real supporters of the event with the dilemma of accepting the tickets they have, or venturing into the murky world of the black market, taking the risk of being sold forged tickets, inflated costs, and nervous back street transactions.

A team of creative IT consultants have taken this situation on board, and worked on an internet-based solution to the dilemma. Having personally experienced the same problem in 2004 at the European Championships in Portugal they have developed a system where World Cup ticket holders can meet, match up with each other, agree a swap, and execute a ?like for like? exchange of tickets to the mutual benefit of both parties, and in doing so cutting out the black market completely. If you have a ticket for the World Cup that you would like to exchange, then head to Ticket Swap Shop site and register.