Olympic tickets

swanny65

I have just got home from holiday and checked my bank account.

I wasn't expecting any tickets as all my friends have got none.

I have had £140.00 deducted from my bank account. I only applied for opening and closing ceremony, two cheapest full price swimming events and six other pay your child's age events. Of those six I did select one in a higher price band, which i have been given at £77.00. That means one to come from six events at £57.00. I also wished i had applied online on the other European websites.

emmaanddave

We have been given no tickets as yet. We only applied for day one of athletics with 2 adults and 2 child tickets. Would have been a great experience for the girls and I am unlikely to get to another Olympics. Not sure if this all has been false hope for alot of people, badly organised...maybe they should have just put them out to a first come first served basis and limit the initial number of events you could apply for. Then after that out the rest of the tickets out. Oh I don't know....I am sure I would be saying different things if I had been allocated the tickets!

Fruit_and_Nut_Case

p00pieb0tt0m wrote: »

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.

That's strange. My understanding is that applicants would get all or nothing for a particular event. e.g. If someone asked for two tickets they would either get two or none. No chance of a singleton.

http://tickets.london2012.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/32331/kw/If%20I%20ask%20for%20two%20tickets%20is%20it%20possible%20that%20I%20will%20be%20allocated%20only%20one%3F

Lil_Me_2

Wow, this is a really sad situation if it's true.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13670354

Mikazaru

Was just reading that, I can't understand how when some people got £11,000 worth of tickets over half the people are left with nothing. I was hoping to get something in the next round but I guss this means it will be a lot more competitive and more expensive as all the cheap ones have gone.

Stryder

Its because those with £11,000 CC bills probably applied for 30 top price tickets which although relatively small in number, probably have a tiny % of people applying. If you can afford a lot at top whack, you may even be paying for a hotel/holiday , which i separate tickets

I applied for 4, got 2

Interesting, the cheap seats I got (Wimbledon day pass, Althletics "in the gods") where as the football in Manchester and Wimbledon Center court I missed out on

Still, must not grumble. taking my mum to Athletics and need to find someone for Wimbledon. - Althetics tickets, I purposely choose an interesting but low profile day - Heptathlon, Womens 100m first round, which is probably why I got the tickets. No point complaining if you apply for 5 or 6 finals and do not get them ... thats the way the cookie crumbles... numbers are limited and even if the commercial nepotism had not occurred, still would have been a struggle

vivatifosi

Stryder wrote: »

No point complaining if you apply for 5 or 6 finals and do not get them ... thats the way the cookie crumbles...

What's really odd is we applied for lots of low priced preliminaries and didn't get those either. It wasn't just athletics, swimming too.

It'll be interesting to see if they show the different dates/events by price category and show how many applied for each. I always knew that going for opening and closing tix would be a definite lottery, but cheap tickets for morning events I honestly thought would be a cert:o.

Mikazaru

True, it just seems odd that they managed to get such large amount of tickets altogether. I did apply for the 100m final but the rest of the events weren't finals, including the heptathlon days yet got nothing at all.

darkman13

moneypooh wrote: »

If you think the events are 'boaring' why did you go for them? Why didn't you leave them for people that desperately want those 'boaring' events?

I'd be really upset if I knew that people that had the tickets I really wanted thought they were a poor substitute. I'd didn't get any for my events

Yeah will be going to few boaring events.

mynameisclare

Mikazaru wrote: »

Was just reading that, I can't understand how when some people got £11,000 worth of tickets over half the people are left with nothing. I was hoping to get something in the next round but I guss this means it will be a lot more competitive and more expensive as all the cheap ones have gone.

It really makes you wonder just how many tickets they actually had at the lower prices, for that many people to have got nothing. I guess we've found out why they were so cagey about the details.