{"id":550049,"date":"2026-03-28T08:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/550049\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T08:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:08:10","slug":"australian-resale-rule-to-make-49ers-rams-near-impossible-to-attend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/550049\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian resale rule to make 49ers-Rams near-impossible to attend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was already going to be difficult for most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/49ers\/article\/49ers-brandon-aiyuk-saga-22088054.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">49ers<\/a> fans to attend their Week 1 game against the Rams in Australia, given it\u2019s at least a 15-hour plane ride from the Bay Area. But a local ticket resale law in the land down under makes attending the Melbourne matchup nearly impossible.<\/p>\n<p>In the state of Victoria, where Melbourne is, it\u2019s illegal to resell a ticket to a major sports or entertainment event \u2014 the government designates these \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/djsir.vic.gov.au\/ticket-scalping#declared\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">declared events<\/a>\u201d\u00a0\u2014 for more than 10% above the price at which it was purchased. This rule comes from a 2009 law called the Major Events Act, which was in part created with the <a href=\"https:\/\/classic.austlii.edu.au\/au\/legis\/vic\/consol_act\/\/mea2009152\/s1.html\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">goal<\/a> of \u201ccontrolling the secondary ticket market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This act of consumer protection could perversely be to the detriment of 49ers fans who wanted to travel across the Pacific Ocean to see their favorite team\u2019s season opener. The Herald Sun, a Melbourne-based publication,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/australias-first-nfl-match-triggers-ticket-scramble-at-mcg\/news-story\/69178863b9e19bf6ad31d8d6639d01b1?amp\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that there were already 151,000 people on the game\u2019s waiting list as of Thursday morning. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcg.org.au\/plan-a-visit\/seating-and-ticket-information\/ticket-information#:~:text=Overview.%20The%20MCG%20has%20a%20total%20capacity,to%20pre%2Dpurchase%20reserved%20seats%20to%20guarantee%20entry.\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official total capacity<\/a> for the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which is slated to host this NFC West rivalry game, is 100,024, ostensibly making the game a sellout before the first batch of tickets is even released to Melbourne Cricket Club members on March 31 (April 1 in Australia), per the Herald Sun.<\/p>\n<p>The difficulty of getting a ticket is the law working as intended. The only people getting tickets are consumers who\u2019d actually want to attend the event, and the 10% cap on any potential profit is warding off any scalpers. There\u2019s even an <a href=\"https:\/\/djsir.vic.gov.au\/ticket-scalping\/need-help#scam\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official online tip line<\/a> to report those who\u00a0try to circumvent these policies.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the best hope for 49ers fans interested in getting into this game would be through Australians who purchased a ticket before asking their work if they can take the day off. As the Herald Sun <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LombardiHimself\/status\/2037547764930789533?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">noted<\/a>, Victoria Premier Jacinta Allan \u201cstopped short of offering a public holiday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was already going to be difficult for most 49ers fans to attend their Week 1 game against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,13472,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-550049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sfgsports","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}