Olympic Tickets

[JonnyBlade]

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To get the full cut-price ticket effect, why not put the telly at the end of your neighbours garden, and sit on your roof to watch it? I guess that's what I will be doing
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Great idea

 

[Archie_tect]

[QUOTE 1424558"]
To get the full cut-price ticket effect, why not put the telly at the end of your neighbours garden, and sit on your roof to watch it? I guess that's what I will be doing
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Maggot, that would be silly, couldn't reach the beer in the fridge or operate the rewind and pause on the sky+ from there!

 

[sheddy]

No need to get a bigger TV for the Olympics.
Simply sit down in you favourite chair and view the old TV with a pair of binoculars

 

[philipbh]

Why such a complex system?

Lord Coe explains it all...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ol...don-2012-Lord-Coe-insists-ticketing-fair.html

 

[davefb]

Lord Coe explains it all...

http://www.dailymail...eting-fair.html

does he explain it?

Am I understanding it rightly that each 'event' was done on a lottery for the tickets applied? fair enough, except surely if you've essentially a LOT of money to commit, you could have applied for lots and lots of tickets giving you lots of chances to get tickets ( though one assumes only so many for each singular event?).
this is where I feel it's unfair, because it skews it towards people with big credit limits compared to someone who could only apply for many 4 tickets because they could only commit so much potential money...
err or does it, because coe just waffles about how difficult it was,, well yeah, we understand that

 

[Vidor06]

I applied for tickets for gymnastics qualifiers and trampoline finals, both at the O2 so not a small arena. My mate applied for tickets for the same events but at a different price (he could afford more). Neither of us got anything at all. I was quite disappointed at the time as my daughters were quite excited about going to the Olympics. I have now lost all interest in the thing and will not be applying in the second round (for tickets I did not want in the first place).
Consequently I will be joining the vast majority of people and will be watching the event from the comfort of my home.

 

[philipbh]

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I guess the system meant that for each event everyone had an equal chance of getting tickets.[/quote]

Quite explicit in that interview is the primary goal of filling up the venues

 

[Bluebell72]

I think it's all gone a bit wrong and there will be a way to buy tickets closer to the event times, which will leave people who have bought them now, and gone through an overly-complicated process to do so, somewhat disenfranchised.

Remember the debacle in India, where as the cameras panned, hundreds of empty seats could be seen at each event?

I heard on the radio the other day that the women's beach volleyball is the event most applied for. Really?

 

[pepecat]

Got an email from London 2012 today congratulating me on the fact that'd I'd got tickets...... Hmmmm, i thought, no money has come out of the account..

Upon further inspection it is revealed I have been keeping an eye on the wrong bank account .... and it appears we have two tickets for the first round of the tennis - no 1 court at Wimbledon. It's an all day session too - 12pm- 8pm. Not bad for £30 each!

 

[ASC1951]

i still find it utterly ridiculous that you apply by lottery and you find out you have tickets when they run off with your money...

They haven't "run off with your money". They have taken the amount that you agreed to pay and on the terms that you agreed when you applied.

 

[Davidc]

Got my credit card bill yesterday and an email from London 2012 today. I've got tickets, and it has to be 2 events from the amount, but I still have no idea which 2 of the 4 events I applied for I've been allocated tickets to!

A dafter system would have been hard to invent.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Worth posting again ...

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport...ants-receive-first-set-of-clues-201106023895/

But the process was criticised by Olympologist, Tom Logan, who said: "In China everybody knew seven years in advance what event they'd be going to see and how many times they would be required to clap their hands together.

"The only thing we've got right is telling Boris Johnson to piss up a rope."

 

[redflightuk]

Had the email yesterday.
No tickets for me and none available in next weeks first come first served sell off.
They've got some for the womens MTB so might try for one or the beech volleyball have quite a few for different sessions.

 

[Ghost Donkey]

First come first served looks like it won't be pretty. We didn't get any tickets. We applied for the triathlon, velodrome, swimming, athletics and marathon swim. Some with kids discount and with disabled access in the requirements. With plans of driving down and back again in a day.Got nowt. We'll look at the first come first served but we're thinking paralympics.

 

[PpPete]

Applied for several sessions for the swimming (my kids are all keen club swimmers and compete at county level) and one in the velodrome. Didn't get anything. Nothing available of any interest in the second ballot. I shan't be trying for tickets any other way. We might spend a tenth of the money we would have had to borrow to pay for the tickets (if we'd got all of them it was quite a chunk) on a decent new TV.

If I can rebuild any enthusiasm for the whole process I might go and camp on Box Hill for the RR.