This one wasn't at the Hallenstadion
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Switzerland’s competition watchdog Comco is to investigate the five-year agreement, which came into force early 2009, between the country’s largest ticket-seller, Ticketron, and the Hallenstadion Zurich (AGH), one of its biggest concert venues. Comco will look into the details of the agreement which obliges the organizers of events at the Hallenstadion to offer least 50 percent of the tickets for sale through Ticketcorner.
Ticketcorner has been in the sights of the Federal Competition Commission before. In 2006, after an appeal, it was absolved of monopolistic behaviour.
Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – International football federation Fifa says it will continue to offer second sales phase tickets online for the World Cup 2010 matches until midnight South Africa time (01:00 Swiss time) Friday 20 November, on a first come first served basis. The extension has been made in part to accommodate excited fans after Wednesday’s qualifying matches, with European teams Ireland versus France in Saint Denis, France.
The third and main phase for ticket sales online opens 6 December, the day after the final draw.
Nyon, Vaud, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The tickets for the Paleo music festival in July were sold out in under three hours Wednesday when the doors were opened. Speedy opening day sales, with people lining up well in advance to buy them, has become standard for the popular festival, but this year the tickets were gone in record time: 200,000 tickets sold in 2.5 hours. The Tribune de Geneve today carries a story asking if the festival needs to rethink its sales approach, out of fairness, pointing out that black market sales are likely to result from such a run on tickets. Paleo’s site offers suggestions for people who would still like to attend the festival, but who haven’t managed to get tickets yet – and sme words of caution about buying tickets on ricardo.ch or craigslist and other online sites.
