With recent disturbing terror attacks, we are seriously re-considering cancelling our family New Years Eve plans which include seeing the Fireworks at midnight by the River Thames. We have never done this before but really fancied it and secured our tickets legitimately when the tickets were first released.
For obvious reasons these tickets are non transferable and we are told that photo identification will be required by the lead person on the night. Presumably anyone who cannot provide this will be denied entry.
It, therefore, really angers me that I have seen sellers on ebay trying to sell these tickets on. Not only is it strictly in breach of the New Year's Eve Firework tickets booking conditions but also leads me to believe that they feel no moral duty to ensure that these tickets stay in the hands of legitimate people. How many of these sellers will be making any kind of check to ensure that the person they have just sold their ticket on to is not a terrorist, I'm sure none. They are clearly only trying to make money on these tickets too. The face value of these tickets is just £10 per person, a mere amount to sacrifice if your circumstances change and you can no longer go. Not only that if you read the details of your tickets then you actually have until Thursday 3rd December to contact see tickets and get a full refund so why not just do that?
Whilst we grapple with the decision whether or not to change our plans, I hope these people trying to sell these tickets on find it hard to sleep at night.....and that ebay clamps down on them.
These are the sad and worrying times we live in.
