Coordinator of the contest Svante Stockselius declares that 1/3 of all tickets are still reserved for the international fans and that international sales will be launched on 25th of March. Official commentary from press-service was suggesting that Olvia was one of the resellers - private company which is indeed selling the tickets but on their own conditions.

Site eurovision2005.in.ua named as official ticket resource by eurovision.tv announces start of tickets sales on 25th of March. Happy fans try to purchase the desired tickets, select seats, enter their contact information and... find that the pay-gate server was not functioning at all, it has not crushed it was simply not existing at that time. So all visitors could do was to do all procedures, but they were stopped on the paying stage. No confirmations that you have reserved the tickets were sent. The same situation lasts for 3 days. No confirmations on reservations whatever are being send from this site.

On 27th of March system puts all tickets to 0 level. It was finally improved on 28th of March, but at that date only tickets for rehearsals were available for purchase. Tickets to the final and semi remained at 0 level. Some tickets for the worsts seats were available accidentally, in a very small portions for sector 1, 2 and possibly others, but overall not more than 100 tickets for the final and semi. The rest of time indicator stays on 0 level.

So - what do we have? Tickets sale has officially started on 2 websites, but none of the fans could buy them. Angry fans blame organizers, Government of Ukraine and insist on immediate transfer of the contest to some European country. Coordinators of the contest are also not satisfied with the tickets situation, but as they say they can not interfere as tickets is prerogative of organizing country. No official comments from organizers are received.

As suddenly on 2nd of April official comment from Press-Secretary of NTU Marko Markovich is received "On 21st of March it was a technical problem on which we couldn't influent. On 25th of March, a company called PORTMONE, which is responsible for money transfer wasn't able to circulate a huge amount of those who wanted to buy tickets. Now sale is working fine.
The ticket system works like this: You are filling the form and paying, and in case you're just reserving, ticket company Olvia is sending you back your form (during next three days) with a link to a site where you can pay your ticket. If payment is not received during the three days reservations are cancelled.
Tickets for the rehearsals are still available, those for the final (2248 tickets) and the semifinal (2766 tickets) are unfortunately sold out." Same information is published on Eurovision.tv website.

In addition to these the numbers for the different countries are demonstrated - figures for 29th of March - 874 tickets - UK, 824 - Ukraine... 120 - Russia, 5 - Kazakhstan and so on, and such countries as Finland, Slovenia, Turkey, Macedonia and many others are simply missing in the list. Also the list doesn't clarify whether this are tickets for rehearsals or the main contest sold to this countries.

So what do we have now? All tickets are sold out? But had any one of foreign fans bought it? We have not seen such a persons, and it is clear that they doesn't exist at all - you can simply read comments on European messageboards. 
"All this is an absolute pile of lies. Totally false. Totally untrue."
"WHAT A BUNCH OF LIES! DO THEY THINK WE'RE STUPID?"
"this is a lot of bollocks! rubbish! they are lying to us!"

At the same time as expected tickets are now being sold in the packages with hotels accomodation, flights etc of course on the prices at least 3 times bigger that the actual ones (which are already high for European youngsters being set at 200 euros). A lot of fans doesn't wish to take the risk getting to Ukraine but failing to get to the hall and start cancelling reservations of hotels and flights. At the meantime Ukraine patheticly announces cancelling of the visa regime for EU countries for May. For whom? If nobody of the European guests are able to purchase the tickets...