MSE News: Crunch time for Olympic ticket payments 25 May 2011 at 5:14PM in UK holidays, days out & entertainments 16 replies 3.9K views

Former_MSE_Guy

This is the discussion thread for the following MSE News Story:

"Fans who applied for tickets for next year's Olympics have been told most payments will be taken by next week ..."

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Crunch time for Olympic ticket payments

Fruit_and_Nut_Case

MSE wrote:

...very few bidders have reported having had money debited yet.

"Very few" = "Zero" as far as I can tell from searching the news.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13545116

BBC_News wrote:

The payment process had been due to begin on 10 May, but so far no cards had been debited.

Retro_Bunny

Nothing from my account yet, meaning £'000s sitting there at 0.5% interest for the time being...

Former_MSE_Guy

Quote:
Originally Posted by BBC News
The payment process had been due to begin on 10 May, but so far no cards had been debited.


This was changed to 16 May

iceage3

i think everyone should check there credit cards frauds to easy now.

jamesd

You have to admire the timing: the last few days of the month, when people are most likely to be short of money in their accounts.

squidworth

On the standard email i received today it clearly states that if payment cannot be made they will contact you to give you a chance to make alternative payment... which to me means if you haven't got the funds in the right account you have a chance to move it around and won't automatically lose the tickets, which is a big relief!

As annoying as it was not to be told this in the first place, I can kinda understand in order to stop possible speculation (allowing an order to be declined and then deciding if you want it or not)

callum9999

Retro_Bunny wrote: »

Nothing from my account yet, meaning £'000s sitting there at 0.5% interest for the time being...

So you're happy to spend £100's on olympic tickets but begrudge losing out on a couple of pounds of interest?

Caroline_a

Interesting how there has been so much fuss made about the ballot, with some idiots applying for tickets way more than they can afford. I went to the Athens Olympics in 2004. We had to apply for tickets around 14 months before (and pay for them) and heard a couple of months later whether we had got them or not - there was an identical ballot then.

I don't remember anybody applying for tickets that they didnt get or couldnt afford - it's probably due to the panic buying mentality, and additionally people thinking that they can make a killing on re-selling the tickets. The annoying part about this is that that real sports fans might miss out because some donut thinks he can sell a load of tickets and make himself rich, which of course won't happen as tickets cannot be resold!

n1cn1c

some movement in the account today, looks like something finally happening with payment for tickets. Amount debited is approx 25% of what maximum could have been :j

tygr

Looks like about a third of my maximum amount has been debited. I want to know what I've got. Very pleased to have got something