Wimbledon 2011 Letter URGENT HELP!

fluffnutter

Ticket touting's pretty irritating, IMO. But one person flogging a few tickets? That's not what the courts are interested in. This won't come to anything. People are too busy shutting down entire operations that flog millions of pounds worth of fake tickets, not some girl or guy making a couple of quid out of a pair of Wimbledon tickets.

They don't like you doing it (understandably) so this is their way of intimidating people and maybe even making a few quid in the process. Ebay provides an way of chasing people so you're an easy target. I'd do NOTHING and let them take me to court (but I seriously doubt it would ever get that far).

fluffnutter

kkhimji2001 wrote: »

yes it is a breach of contract fluff nutter

Well the laws around breach of contract are pretty clear. You can recoup losses or damages, nothing else. Your actions haven't cost them anything. They got the money for the tickets, it's fairly irrelevant who sat in the seats on the day.

This will come to nothing (I believe).

kkhimji2001

So do not even reply with a letter , do literally nothing, what do you think they will do next?

fluffnutter

kkhimji2001 wrote: »

So should I reply saying I advertised tickets but did not sell them on ebay but not fill in the form, just type a letter? And I can say i promise not to advertise tickets again?

Sweet! But unnecessary. Look at this bit again. Read it. Believe it.

You will find that while you should not really have sold the sports or concert tickets, Wimbledon do not have any grounds for the threats they make.

fluffnutter

kkhimji2001 wrote: »

So do not even reply with a letter , do literally nothing, what do you think they will do next?

Send another letter.

visidigi

and another and another...and when you don't reply the club itself will suffer as a whole - the distribution of tickets at wimbledon is actually one of those really controlled scenarios compared to most events - I would own up as little information as possible although....thinking back, you said the winning bidder didn't pay...wonder if they were the lawyers...

fluffnutter

visidigi wrote: »

and another and another...and when you don't reply the club itself will suffer as a whole - the distribution of tickets at wimbledon is actually one of those really controlled scenarios compared to most events - I would own up as little information as possible although....thinking back, you said the winning bidder didn't pay...wonder if they were the lawyers...

Quite possibly. Ebay says that the solicitors bid just to get your details.

fluffnutter

visidigi's right; it's the club's that will suffer, and morally it's not a great thing to have done. Having said that... you didn't actually get the tickets yourself, so perhaps there's no way of tracing you to the club. I'm not trying to give you loads of get out clauses here; you have been naughty. But you haven't committed a crime, and as such, you shouldn't be intimidated by solicitors. Legally, they can't do anything and that's what I assume you're asking for advice on.

visidigi

if the listing had the court and seat number on then they already know the club who had the tickets...

well if they are the lawyers...then they know you didn't sell them on ebay - they arent interested on where you sold them it seems - I would own up, say that 'someone at the club' gave you the tickets and you unexpectedly couldn't go - so at the last minute you tried to sell the tickets, but then discovered they couldnt be sold...

I've been quite a few times and the clubs are very clear on the reselling of tickets - the way wimbledon view it is you selling them puts one of the camping crowd out of a seat for your profit...thats why wimbledon are so touchy about this sort of thing...

kkhimji2001

no seat number was on the ticket but on the form it asks for the specific ticket number, should i ignore this form completely and send a letter then?