Chelsea’s president and co -owner, Todd Boehly, is the director and investor of an exchange of price tickets that allows the resale of the price tickets of the Premier League for thousands of books above the nominal value.
The American company is indexed through the Premier League as a “unauthorized price tickets website”, the League implores followers who “show excessive caution” when dealing with him and other corporations in the exchange of tickets.
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Vivid seats, whose head is in Chicago, allows visitors to buy and sell tickets for concerts, theater exhibitions and sports occasions, adding Premier League matches that involves Chelsea.
However, enthusiasts based in the United Kingdom should not use agile seats or other price ticket exchange sites such as this to buy Premier League price tickets, since it opposes the United Kingdom Law to resell the Price tickets in this way.
Tickets advertised on Vivid Seats for Chelsea’s upcoming game against Southampton at Stamford Bridge on February 25 range from £98 ($123) to over £900 ($1,129), while tickets for the match at home to Liverpool on May 2 are priced between £682 and £6,604.
In February 2024, Chelsea posted on their official that they were “determined to take on the praise tickets. “
“We identify Americans who are fraudulently reaping price/membership tickets for sale at enormously inflated prices, investigating the sale of illegal and out -of -line price tickets, and using a diversity of tactics and compliance measures that be Promote fighting price tickets to fight. ” Said the saying. “Fans have judged their price ticket for more than the facial price will be a topic for research and sanctions through the club. “
Maximum dear entrances indexed in the seats for the last game of the Liverpool house opposite to Crystal Palace, which can see them raising the title, are indexed by just under £ 20,000. The cheapest seat for the same game is sold for more than £ 1,700.
Vivid seating fees of 10% commission from ticket sales prices, as well as an additional payment on top of the service payment.
Athletics approached Chelsea to comment, the club refused to comment when the story was first published through Telegraph.
Vivid Seats said in a statement to The Telegraph: “As a global business, we are always respectful and cognisant of local regulatory policies and procedures that are in place in any market to ensure we are compliant.
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“As such, our policy restricts the sale of EPL tickets from UK sellers. We can confirm that we do not have any UK sellers listing EPL inventory on our marketplace. Additionally, Vivid Seats does not and has never directly marketed or advertised Premier League tickets to UK customers.
“Vivid seats and Chelsea have a respectful and respectful association, which announced publicly in 2023, where we associated with Chelsea in their first pre -season tournament of the Premier League in the United States.
“As far as Worths is concerned, live seats do not establish the base of tickets sold in their market nor do they make a profit from that base base; Only the concessionaire establishes and obtains the value of the fundamental ticket. “
Boehly has co-owned Chelsea with Clearlake Capital since May 2022, with the consortium buying the club for £2.5bn and a further commitment to spend £1.75bn, taking the overall price to £4.25bn.
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