{"id":16215,"date":"2012-06-19T07:29:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T11:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16215"},"modified":"2012-06-30T07:32:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T11:32:03","slug":"f1-fans-without-tickets-as-agency-folds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-fans-without-tickets-as-agency-folds\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 fans without tickets as agency folds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some F1 fans are enduring a very unhappy buildup to the forthcoming grands prix at Valencia and Silverstone.<\/p>\n<p>The well-known British broadcaster James Allen revealed on his blog that an agency called &#8216;Simply The Ticket&#8217; has closed down without delivering paid tickets to hopeful F1 spectators.<\/p>\n<p>The business&#8217; official website and Twitter account are not working.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looks like Simply The Ticket has absconded with F1 ticket holders&#8217; money for Valencia this weekend,&#8221; someone Tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Another wondered: &#8220;Was (Simply The Ticket) a relatively new site or had it been around a while?\u00a0 If the former, sounds like a massive scam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A bio at a third party website reads: &#8220;Simply The Ticket sells F1 grand prix tickets as well as tickets to theatre, sport, music, concerts and other events.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We also supply corporate hospitality packages to all sporting events.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company did not respond to an email or answer a phone call.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some F1 fans are enduring a very unhappy buildup to the forthcoming grands prix at Valencia and Silverstone. The well-known British broadcaster James Allen revealed on his blog that an agency called &#8216;Simply The Ticket&#8217; has closed down without delivering paid tickets to hopeful F1 spectators. The business&#8217; official website and Twitter account are not &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[3859,5262,5340,5327,5308],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16216,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215\/revisions\/16216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}