Olympic tickets

lawrenson

Hi,

me and OH put in for Opening Ceremony ticks and looks like we got them! (Well, given that I live less than 20 miles from the Stadium it would have been rude not to go!)

Altho they were more than we wanted to pay, we went for mid-price ticks, on the assumption that the cheapest would be well-oversubscribed, and that all the expensive ticks would be bought by loads of rich ppl or corporations. Still nearly 2K tho!!

Cheers,
karen

stefbeat

Goose74 wrote: »

I can't explain it but I had the same experience. I can't be sure the sum was exactly the same, but it was certainly for around £125 and had been pending for the past 10 days or so but disappeared at precisely the same time everyone else's turned from pending into actual transactions and were confirmed as Olympics tickets.

Barclaycard tell me they can't even confirm whether there was ever a pending transaction, and therefore can't tell me who the merchant was who was requesting it (mind-boggling that they insist they have no record of it even though their own site describes pending transactions as ones "they have authorised" but are awaiting withdrawal).

The Olympic helpline was only able to tell me I've been unsuccessful so far so that pending transaction was either not them or shouldn't have been them as I haven't been allocated anything, but I've deliberately avoided using the card for anything else to ensure I had sufficient funds in the account so there's no other explanation.

Absolutely gutted - the timings, amounts and length of time left pending seem too similar to all those who were successful to be a coincidence but nobody seems to be able to explain it.

I'll look forward to the email graciously telling me I've got first dibs on tickets to the handball.

Hmm, well i kept a screenshot... and it clearly says it was for £122.85

it's like they build your hopes up on purpose just to drop them from a great height

hilda1

My previous posting criticised the London Olympics for the mis-management of the selling of the Olympic tickets and I still stand by this criticsim....If they had implemented a fair system, it should have enabled people to get one only ticket in the initial ballot. Not difficult to implement.....

However, it is a brilliant strategy for selling the less well-liked events; for example sailing !! In the Beijing olympics, it was offered as a freebie just to attract the crowds !! However, the London Olympics appeared to have sold most, if not all, of their tickets using the ballot system !! Trully amazed as sailing is an awful event to watch ! You can also see the event without paying if you use binoculars from certain points on the Dorset coastline. In saying this, you will also need binoculars for any point in the Olympic paid for viewing points so there will be no difference !

I can also make similar comments with regards other sporting events (e.g. Football....You can get tickets to watch any premiership match for £40 or less....so why spend more than £40 to watch inferior standard of football at the Olympics ?).

Fruit_and_Nut_Case

hilda1 wrote: »

I can also make similar comments with regards other sporting events (e.g. Football....You can get tickets to watch any premiership match for £40 or less....so why spend more than £40 to watch inferior standard of football at the Olympics ?).

Oh, I can answer this one. My wife is from overseas and wants to support her country of birth. We don't give a %&*@ about domestic football.

Unfortunately the draw has not been made so we don't even know which city/cities they will be playing in.

evilskanker

stefbeat wrote: »

Hmm, well i kept a screenshot... and it clearly says it was for £122.85

it's like they build your hopes up on purpose just to drop them from a great height

Erm...I might be missing something obvious but how would Olympic tickets end with 85p? I thought they were whole pounds, 50p, or 12p on the end of each ticket. 85pence just seems an odd number to have at the end for an Olympic ticket order.

evilskanker

hilda1 wrote: »

My previous posting criticised the London Olympics for the mis-management of the selling of the Olympic tickets and I still stand by this criticsim....If they had implemented a fair system, it should have enabled people to get one only ticket in the initial ballot. Not difficult to implement.....

However, it is a brilliant strategy for selling the less well-liked events; for example sailing !! In the Beijing olympics, it was offered as a freebie just to attract the crowds !! However, the London Olympics appeared to have sold most, if not all, of their tickets using the ballot system !! Trully amazed as sailing is an awful event to watch ! You can also see the event without paying if you use binoculars from certain points on the Dorset coastline. In saying this, you will also need binoculars for any point in the Olympic paid for viewing points so there will be no difference !

I can also make similar comments with regards other sporting events (e.g. Football....You can get tickets to watch any premiership match for £40 or less....so why spend more than £40 to watch inferior standard of football at the Olympics ?).

I assume when you mean one ticket, you mean one event? For everyone to have only been entitled to one ticket each would've been an even worse system!

I think the fairest way to do it would've been to allot the most oversubscribed events first, and anyone lucky enough to win in one ballot, should only have got a second allocation when either: a) a further event they were in the ballot for was not oversubscribed when considering only those who had no tickets yet, b) everyone had been allocated at least one lot of tickets.

Also, some people enjoy watching sailing, and I'm sure some people think the sports/events you enjoy are boring to watch, each to their own. Your football comment is equally useless, but that's already been pointed out!

Oh, and back to the main topic, I went in for £700 worth of tickets and came out with nothing. I don't think the second round will have anything too exciting, so I think I will be waiting for the resale to start and hoping that something half decent comes up!

pardal51

completely joke this lottery....
applied for £800 and got only £110 worth of tickets debited (£116 total).
OH applied for £500 and got nothing.
To be honest I should have applied for £20K worth of tickets
Had I known the German, Danish sites selling direct I wouldn't have bothered to apply to this non-sense.
What annoys me is that Boris Johnson said that he didn't get anything he applied for.....I bet he will treat whole family to VIP tickets to whatever they like and for free.
Utterly disappointed

evilskanker

pardal51 wrote: »

completely joke this lottery....
applied for £800 and got only £110 worth of tickets debited (£116 total).
OH applied for £500 and got nothing.
To be honest I should have applied for £20K worth of tickets
Had I known the German, Danish sites selling direct I wouldn't have bothered to apply to this non-sense.
What annoys me is that Boris Johnson said that he didn't get anything he applied for.....I bet he will treat whole family to VIP tickets to whatever they like and for free.
Utterly disappointed

You got tickets. 250,000 people didn't, including me and many other people on here. Be grateful.

p00pieb0tt0m

We applied for 7 events, all for 2 tickets, and each ticket being £20 or £30 each. Don't know what we have yet but they have taken £96. £6 for booking fee, £90 on tickets. I'm wondering which event only one of us will be going to or which we will have to drag a friend along to.

elfen

Have taken enough for one ticket for one of the events, each of them I wanted to see so either way it doesn't bother me