London 2012 Olympics Tickets

Is there any way to find out what events were under-subscribed? The ones I REALLY wanted to go to were the football quarter-final at Wembley and BMX.

I do think Londoners should have got first shot at the tickets - sure its a Global event, and the powers that be have done their best to market it as being a UK event too, but the reality is that its us lot who have had to put up with all the disruption to get the Olympics up and running, dig a bit deeper into our pockets, and we've had so much propaganda shoved down our throats about how great the games will be for London and all the benefits the games legacy will have for us that it seems ridiculous that we dont get first chance to enjoy the main benefit of having the games in London, which is seeing the worlds best going for the greatest prize on earth, right here on our doorsteps.

You're missing the point. You got tickets.

good point well made

Being forced to apply for more tickets than you can potentially afford just to increase your chances of getting anything is disgusting. Well done Mr hedge fund manager and you're £11k worth of tickets with your Audi and your Highgate mansion and your bartok, but what about the Newham family of 4 who could only stretch to a couple of events?

Got some. track.
Back of the net!

Also having the payment period over the end of the month, when the newham family of four won't know if they can pay their rent, cos they just want to see a bit of judo next year.

Agreed, it's a ridiculous show/system they're using. You shouldn't have to "over spend" to secure tickets and you shouldn't have to "pay" then wait months for the "payment" to go through. You should also be told what you've "won" rather than having to work it out using the value of the payment. I also don't appreciate all the endless emails cross-selling more tickets/"updating" me of the process/warning me of the potential for false/phishing emails.

You should also not be forced to use a particular credit/debit card manufacturer for the payment.

Absolute shambles, exactly what was expected. At least the Olympic site is going in the right direction/on schedule/not a shambles.

I can accept the disappointment of not getting what I wanted but I feel that there should be more disclosure regarding the lottery process for over-subscribed events. It would also be interesting to know what percentage of tickets by price bracket were available for each event. If the chances of getting a ticket were known to be 1000/1 in advance then I don't think people would have been half as pissed off.

They should offer first refusal on more expensive tickets to people who didn't get cheaper ones too.

I'm just pissed off because of the initial way you had to apply..... Both my wife and I went for £400 worth, as that is what I could afford to pay should we have got the lot..... If I had applied for £1500 worth and got them all, I would have been fucked...... But I might have got £400 worth? I don't know.
The only thing that is certain, is that there will be people there who don't want to be, because they have got their tickets for nothing...... This fucks me off, as people who wanted to 'be there' now can only be 'near there'..... I'll be hanging around on the river bank at the back of the stadium listening to the cheers and drinking tramps brew from a brown paper bag..... And loving it!!

I applied for roughly £580 of tickets and have had zero taken from my account.

Rubbish thought I would get something considering the varity of things I applied for even some ahem 'less popular sports'.

The system is rubbish, but then that is the system they decided on.

It's just annoying that people were be able to swing the odds by applying for tens of thousands of pounds of events knowing they can front the cash and sell tickets on to friends and families etc.

hmmm there are 6billion people in the world and a couple of million tickets
someone do the maths
it is highly unlikely that everyone in the world will get in ( i've seen the stadium and i can assure you it doesn't hold 6bn )
therefore some people will be disappoint

maybe we should start a thread on the national lottery and have people rant about how disappointed they are that they didn't win the 30mn roll over last night

maybe we should start a thread on the national lottery and have people rant about how disappointed they are that they didn't win the 30mn roll over last night

As it has no relevance in anyway whatsoever to this thread, it would be the thing to do.

maybe we should start a thread on the national lottery and have people rant about how disappointed they are that they didn't win the 30mn roll over last night

or gloat about how they just won 30mn and ask what charity they should donate it to?

How do you know what tickets you have? Is it just guess work or is there a way of checking?

i assume everyone has seen the guy who got £11,000 worth

And Sepp Blatter to sort out the applications.

hmmm there are 6billion people in the world and a couple of million tickets
someone do the maths
it is highly unlikely that everyone in the world will get in ( i've seen the stadium and i can assure you it doesn't hold 6bn )
therefore some people will be disappoint

maybe we should start a thread on the national lottery and have people rant about how disappointed they are that they didn't win the 30mn roll over last night

The point is that they did nothing to minimise the disappointment. We all know we can't go to what we want, if anything at all, but it's the system that's getting people's humours up, and rightly so.

I "won" the tickets I wanted, I still think it's a shambles.

For a ballot, it had the feel of an auction.

Whinging Aussie?
Not a new concept

We learned from the best.

I for one am not winging about the system, as i believe it is one of the fairest ways to do it, i am merely expressing my dissapointment at not receiving any tickets. Surely you can understand that an internet forum, where many of the members are actively part of more than one olympic sport, is a good place to vent frustration?

I am also lucky enough to have my family home at the base of box hill, so i should get to see some of the road racing, but apart from that, the marathon and tourist bating, there are few sports that are free to enjoy. So unless you take pleasure in the improved transport system, or a great big stadium in your back garden, i'm not sure what there is to enjoy about a local olympics if you didn't get tickets?

all round yours to watch the race go past then eh?

ha, sure, how many members on this forum? i'm sure my mum won't mind cooking something up for a light lunch! it doesn't actually go past my house, its about 2 miles away... but close enough!

I'm hiring a deer costume and hiding in Richmond Park. Anyone want to be my arse for a night?

thats not a line thats going to get a yes from the dragons den lot...