Ghost Tickets Haunt World Cup Fans on Secondary Markets

World Cup fans who bought tickets on resale sites like StubHub found they weren’t delivered, sometimes leading to canceled trips or paying much higher prices for replacements; the piece argues that speculative “ghost ticketing”—sellers listing tickets they don’t yet have—drives many unfulfilled orders and questions the reliability of secondary marketplaces’ “honor system,” even as platforms offer refunds or replacements and FIFA’s tech/transfer issues complicate the process.