In the business-minded microcosm around the Weser stadium they are at first glance does not: young men who always wear a bunch of tickets in a pants pocket. It is not easy to get into conversation with them, if you do not have it in for one of their tickets. For her, they have every reason to mistrust: The Bundesliga clubs want abgraben the black market the water - a long-term struggle, but probably soon will be resolutely implemented.
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A mock scene, as they will also appear again today in front of the Weser Stadium.Depending on demand like a league game is, does a standing room in the Werder-block on the black market ever about 50 €.
In principle, one gets for any big game that is sold, still short a ticket. If you're willing to spend some more money. The black market can be useful for viewers' perspective - even if you maybe even once a ticket has left and wants to get rid of this quickly and easily. The fact that the unofficial ticket trade, which belongs to a professional football stadium as sausage and beer, but has an ugly flip side, is certain. Namely, when black market dealers buy up large-scale maps, in order to systematically make profits later. If the normal stadium-goers will be ripped off. And the clubs - are damaged - directly or indirectly.
There are the same faces each time, the mix on game days one, two hours before kickoff at the Weser stadium in front of fans: young guys in sweat pants and track jackets, others in the parka with large fur collar. They greet each other in passing, checking, off again and again - most likely to know each other - and also to cobble the cards against each other for resale. A kind Osterdeich cartel.
My first test on 5 November, before the sold-out game against Werder the first FC Köln: * Pavel offers standing room in the Werder-block, 50 € each. The original sales price, as he admits candidly, at 16 to 18 €. I want ten. "Can I get," says Pavel."By whom?" - "From a colleague." A few yards further brings André two cards for the west grandstand at the man, € 140 for both (original price around 80 €). Another fan buys him two tickets for Block 100, 170 € to change the bags, more than double the original price.
Some people seem nervous
It is a silent scene, this milieu the ticket seller. Nobody wants to talk with journalists. It does so only by an interest for their tickets - amazing how quickly caught sight of his own seeking, and the crowd was still so great. Then they say are also actively involved in one, the nervous among them remain two or three feet distance, always on the go, if the sale negotiations take too long.
Ibrahim wants € 200 for four general admission tickets. "120" He thinks for a moment. "Let's meet in the middle, 160 Hey, I could just get 240 for it." Why did not he do then? Ibrahim looks blankly, he noted that there is no real buying interest and turns away. Adjacent bundles of money are counted, Andre submits a further part of his colleagues. The good old, self-painted sign "map search!" Today, incidentally, no longer helps. When I order in hand for some time standing in front of the stadium, I will only addressed by buyers, if I had tickets. Strange. They interpret my cardboard sign apparently reversed. It is probably because the black market dealer an hour before the game starts looking even more intense for tickets (to resell them with supplement). Ergo: If you are looking, for my sake with cardboard sold, too. So goes the logic. Ibrahim offers another seller € 25 for a general admission ticket. He would then pass them safely for a minimum of 40 €, but he does not come to the train. Of course not, the other is not stupid.
By 15 clock, half an hour before kickoff, which are still standing at 50 €. A Finnish couple to visit Bremen, presents itself to me. They want once the Weser stadium and hope that I wear with my cardboard sign vendor. A lady on the way to the sausage stand my comments with a sardonic eye sight: "yah, I got tickets ..." So there are still people who do not think wrong-headed.
The commercial microcosm around the stadium buzzing, many people want something abhaben the cake: scarf sellers, men with beer cans pallets from Lidl, bottle collectors who have systematized their business and earn no more even: The camp followers put their empties like in hosted shopping carts. Three guys have stocked up just on the black market tickets: "Last season, the tickets complains almost to normal price ...", one of them (there had to be a dip in form, this season football is on the Weser, but fun again, at least at times). "Fuck 'on the money now!" Says his buddy.
At exactly half past three disappear, the first of the five, six relevant sellers who have struck me that day. "How much have you earned today?" I asked André. "You know that yourself. As in football, where there are good and bad players, there are good and bad sellers." Aha. Ibrahim says he would not give away the cards now got rid of - who believes it. Fact: A matchday must be worth the ticket seller so that they also go to kick off with remaining cards in their pockets to your house (and then probably just throw in the trash).
Those waiting have amazing patience. Another ten minutes after the game they haggle with the remaining cards to retailers. They make it clear: We do not want to get in at all costs. After 15.45 clock pull away the last of seekers. Their ideas have not met that day with those of the black market dealer. "Let's go to a bar," one young woman says to her boyfriend. "Because it's warm and the beer is cheap at least."
That should not be a problem in the dozens of restaurants in the quarter, the gambling halls and sometimes sausage stalls, turn on the course, the television on match days. It completely overlooks the young couple that have gone shortly after 15.30 clock at the stadium box office remaining tickets on sale. Two spontaneous buyer there to beat, for 25 €. There are so many ways to see that day a Werder game - if all else fails, you may also need to watch at the stadium through a window to look at a TV.
I see myself again at 27 November - Werder has not sold the inn to VfB Stuttgart, the game is.
Up to 500 € profit
Even before the savings bank at the St. Jürgen Street, two young guys and offer will be apparent to anyone who cards. Nuri and Erdal make claims to 50-100 € per match day. For some others are even up to 500 € inside, says Nuri. At half past three, he wants to go to the stadium. "It's better than break somewhere," Erdal is justified, without having him or his fellow-major acquisition - who knows - accused.Legally, there is already a controversial matter. Nuri wants to buy another four colleagues standing room for 50 €, more or less the original price. He would then resell these tickets from € 30 upwards, he says, per piece.
Up on the Osterdeich Two elderly gentlemen and offer cards. When I speak, they turn away. Before the stadium, almost the same place as three weeks earlier, I meet Andre and Ibrahim. You do not recognize me. It is not going so well for them that day. For the game, there are remaining tickets, officially. I speak to a younger man I had not seen the first time. "Black market", he asks indignantly, "but I will only sell two tickets from friends!" It is not always easy to distinguish - between black and gray.
