вЂњI recall one month at the Victory Theatre when we sold over R120вЂ‰000вЂ™s worth of tickets. вЂњWe started becoming very successful,вЂќ said Charne. вЂњAllow it to sleep on your bed and it may maul you whilst asleep.вЂќД¬harne testified that, in 2006, Strictly Tickets was selling tickets for six theatres across the country. вЂњTreat your dog for what it is, a dog,вЂќ wrote Schoeman. In it, Computicket managing director Fanie Schoeman responds to news from sales manager Alfie Reid that the Oude Libertas theatre would probably self-supply its own tickets in the future. Drennan said that eliminating TicketWeb as a competitor wasnвЂ™t the primary objective: вЂњIt was really just trying to save a business that was losing money.вЂќД«oth ticketing services were operating at a loss and the idea was to create one sustainable business, he said.ДЄn example of the animosity between vendors and Computicket was evident in an email quoted by the commissionвЂ™s advocate, Jerome Wilson. TicketWeb and Computicket merged in 2001.

He argued that the long-term contracts were not anticompetitive and were merely a response to rival TicketWebвЂ™s use of exclusive contracts. Jay said his relationship with Computicket had been good until this point.Д«ut Computicket general manager Kurt Drennan said the instruction to extend the contract lengths had come from Naspers, ComputicketвЂ™s previous owner. After that, contract lengths were extended to three-year terms, coinciding with the acquisition of Computicket by Shoprite in 2005. The commission said that, until mid-2005, Computicket contracts lasted four months or less.

There was no evidence of efficiency being the reason for introducing the three-year exclusivity contracts. He added that the company would threaten a legal challenge, the removal of its ticketing equipment or the halting of its ticketing services to secure an exclusive contract or prevent vendors from working with rival ticketing companies. Computicket had signed 1 800 contracts between 19 and 99% of these were exclusive contracts, he said. Ncube said Computicket had pursued an вЂњall-or-nothingвЂќ policy and had rejected requests for nonexclusive contracts.

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