Desperately need paralympic tickets - how can I get them?

delambo

Hi all,

I know it seems I have left it a bit late but I have my reasons. My daughter has severe Cerebral Palsy and she loves to run. We have all as a family become quite enthralled with Sophia Warner as she runs just like my little girl, and therefore desperately want to take the family so see the T35 100m womens Paralympic finals on the evening session on 7th September. Trouble is when there were tickets available we were completely broke, due to having to pay 2 mortgages and associated bills. We have just got some refunds on gas and electric on the other house (it is empty and we are not using any so why do they charge us for it anyway???!!!!), and a tax rebate, so now have the spare cash to buy the tickets. As you would expect though the tickets have now sold out!!

We are gutted to say the least, and had tears to deal with from my daughter who was really looking forward to seeing the race. So where can I get some tickets. There must be someone who has bought some and now can't make it, or even a tout who has bought some and wants to sell them for profit. I am desperate and will pay any price (within reason).

Any advise greatly received.

barbarawright

Do keep checking the London2012 site. A whole bunch of athletics tickets have just been released (though not for that session) so check back as often as you can.

bazzyb

Suggest you follow @2012ParaAlert on Twitter and keep an eye out for the session you are interested in.

delambo

Thanks barbara and bazza, I am subscribed to @2012ParaAlert on Twitter they just came available but had sold out before I managed to enter that stupid captcha code thing (after about 30 attempts), I cant read the flipping thing. Does anyone know if more tickets will come available? I will take leave from work and monitor the site round the clock if I have to! But I don't want to do this of there is no chance of getting any tickets. What really winds me up is there are probably hundreds of people who have tickets for this event that couldn't care less what they see so long as they see something.

bazzyb

The Twitter alert is not provided officially by LOCOG, it is something that has been set up by a fan. It is completely automated and constantly searches for new tickets... this means that if LOCOG release a batch of tickets you will get the alert, but also if somebody uses the ticket resale scheme to return a small number of tickets (or even 1 ticket!) you would still get the alert, and there could be hundreds of people who see the alert and try to get it at the same time.

Unfortunately unless anybody has any better advice, the key is to be quick and be persistent.

With the Captcha things, if you can't read one of the words just enter the other one. In fact there is only one which needs to be entered, it's hard to explain but after a few attempts you will get understand it - there will be one word that looks like it is deliberately distorted/twisted etc i.e. somebody has purposely made it look 'odd'. Then there will be another word that looks scanned, sometimes has part of the word cut off or is in 'olde english'. It is only the word which has been deliberately distorted which needs to be entered correctly - this is sufficient to validate the Captcha. Hope this makes some kind of sense!

kt21

theres a note on the 2012 ticket site saying they will be releasing more paralympic tickets soon, so keep an eye out and good luck

shorelines

If you add Check4Change as an add on to your browser, once you've gone through the security words bit, you can highlight a bit of text, right click and then select Check4Change to refresh the page every 5 minutes.

This keeps you logged in all the time so you won't need to re-enter the security bit again. So once tickets become available, you;ll save a few seconds (which count!)

HTH

barbarawright

bazzyb wrote: »

With the Captcha things, if you can't read one of the words just enter the other one. In fact there is only one which needs to be entered, it's hard to explain but after a few attempts you will get understand it - there will be one word that looks like it is deliberately distorted/twisted etc i.e. somebody has purposely made it look 'odd'. Then there will be another word that looks scanned, sometimes has part of the word cut off or is in 'olde english'. It is only the word which has been deliberately distorted which needs to be entered correctly - this is sufficient to validate the Captcha. Hope this makes some kind of sense!

Makes sense to me and is really useful :beer: Part of my job is helping internet newbies set up email accounts and I find the Captcha things as baffling as everyone else does! Apparently the bloke who invented them is now really embarrassed :rotfl:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18367017

robpw2

there are tickets to the paralympics but they are not olympic park venues still availble

Humphrey10

There are some tickets available for the 7th, football 7-a-side, http://www.tickets.london2012.com/eventdetails?id=000046BFA94F117D it says "Includes Olympic Park day pass:
09:00-21:35 Sept 7 (PXO09) based on availability"
So you might be able to see the event you want on screens within the park if you get that ticket? I'm not sure how it works, but I think they had screens for the Olympics.

katejo

barbarawright wrote: »

Do keep checking the London2012 site. A whole bunch of athletics tickets have just been released (though not for that session) so check back as often as you can.

I searched the database today and it said that there were no athletics tickets at all. I wish that it wasn't necessary to select an event. I want to just select a day and time (evening) and ask if anything is available and the price. I can't take any time off work but live near Stratford so could go in the evening. I did go once during the main Olympics but did not have time to look round the grounds.