I was just looking round e-bay.co.uk and came across a guy in Australia who is offering to buy pre sale tickets for the Ashes 06/07. These tickets come out on the 1st of June and are only avalible to registered Australian Resedents.

Check it out for you self.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6632629127&rd=1&sspage name=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1

I think it's a load of rubbish giving English supporters a tiny % of the tickets sold. We're going to be a minority over there. We allowed many Aussies in to the matches here. Although, half Australia does actually live in England.

Does not make a great deal of sence trading them on e-bay.co.uk, if for "registered Australian Resendents only".

I would advise any of our members to take care on any internet site giving out your personal or finacial details no matter the name of the site.

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Ern

I did a liitle more research and found that cricket Australia (cricket.com.au) has a pre sale for the up coming tour. My guess is that it there going to be buying at the early date, for english fans, as english fans can't buy until later in June, when they're expected to have sold out

The position in a nutshell is that Cricket Australia has basically created a black market out of nothing. There are 105,000 registered Aussie residents in the so-called Australian Cricket Family, and they have a fifteen day head start on the rest of the world to buy up to ten tickets per day of international cricket for the forthcoming Australian summer. There will be loads of these ads on e-bay by 2 June - the day after the priority sales period opens. A real shame, really. I am hoping that my Aussie mate in Adelaide will be able to get tickets for us, but the likelihood has to be that a well organised gang of touts will have the Ashes series sold out in minutes. Good for Cricket Australia, who never have sell-outs for anything. Bad for supporters, Aussies and Brits alike.

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There was a loophole in the CA system which many tourists would have exploited. All you needed to do was to register and provide an Australian postal address. All an inventive English fan needed to do (too late now though) was to line up a friend living in Australia and get the tickets sent to that address. Considering there are over 1 million English born people living down here, i suspect England will get some very good support in the end in any case.

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Well to be honest, most are related to British born relatives! Just cos a few old British Convicts families get to go to the matches it doesnt make the whole of England happy. People who live in England want to go.

I'm reserving judgement on this whole thing until we see how it pans out. I am very pessimistic for the fans in Australia or Britain though: the touts should clean up. I'm trying Seamer's approach, incidentally. I have to keep hoping, but I am going to count myself fortunate if I land tickets for Adelaide and Perth (the two smallest grounds in the Ashes schedule) at anything close to face price.

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