250,000 people miss out on Olympic tickets altogether!

[APACHE]

Got 75% of what i applied for in 1 sport but I bet you most of the cheaper tickets went to the sponsors and their be use in competitions and freebies for the company friends.

 

[tubaman]

Gutted............absolutely nothing. Just one set of tickets would have been enough.

 

[Billy the Fish]

How would we feel if in the world cup tickets were only sold to the local population. On the basis that Fifa will never give England the world cup to host that would mean no one would see England play (not always a bad idea!!).

That usually does happen. Remember france '98, our official allocation for the quarter final vs the argies was 1000ish

 

[Lady Whistledown]

This sounds like an Albion cup tie all over again.

Fixed number of tickets. A greater number of applicants. Lots of people won't get tickets.

C'est la vie. I'll go and watch something that's free. If I get any time off that is, as there's a total ban on police leave from May through September

 

[Superseagull]

Nowt for me. Did the usual opening & closing ceremonies on the one in a million chance I'd get a £20.12 ticket so I'm not gutted about not getting them. But, I had also gone for several of the less popular events at off peak times and got none of them also! One of the guys at work just went for the opening and closing ceremony and must have got one of them as the money went out of his account today. What pisses me off is he is the most unsporting, overweight, mouthy git who then turned round to me and said he would try and flog them for a huge profit as he wasn't that bothered about going.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Being unsporting, overweight and mouthy never stopped Richard Keys or Neil Ruddock from getting jobs as football pundits though, so by the same token, why should only the fit get to watch the Olympics?

 

[piersa]

the second round of ticket ballots is for Hoovering, Hair brushing and upholstery which i do not plan on paying to watch.

 

[galebs]

I thought they said if you go for morning and evening sessions ( ie Athletic ) you would get both sessions.

Has anyone here applied for Athletics morning tickets and been unsuccessful? I applied for 2 different days for morning prelims and the evenings. I've got both mornings but neither evening. When I applied I half expected this to happen as my memory of watching previous Games is one of seeing a half full stadium for the morning qualifying events. So am wondering if I've been lucky or the morning events have not sold out?

 

[METALMICKY]

the second round of ticket ballots is for Hoovering, Hair brushing and upholstery which i do not plan on paying to watch.

Gutted as didn't even get tickets for the Pro Celebrity Topless Knitting. I guess women's Beach volleyball was a long shot

 

[Anchorman]

I thought they said if you go for morning and evening sessions ( ie Athletic ) you would get both sessions.

I didnt read that, they were separate tickets to buy. Maybe I can hide in the stadium?

 

[Sergei's Celebration]

The more I sit here and think about my lack of tickets, the more I read on here and on the news sites, i am becoming more frustrated.

It is starting to appear that I had a better chance of getting tickets if I had bid for double or treble the £500 worth I did go for, thus increasing my chance of winning (what seems the norm) a third of that. But I couldn't! I could not afford £500 but had ensured I had saved just in case I got them all, so what if I had bid for £1000-£1500 and I had got 75% of those? I would be broke and in trouble with my bank, not pay my bills etc...

I am not knocking anyone, i am knocking the system. But how can any system that provides someone 75% of their bid or £11,000 worth of tickets and not someone 10% of their more humble request be fair? This system, on the whole, favours the rich...more money = more bids = more chance of winning.

For the Olympics, the games for all, this is frustrating. For those that have tickets, i am honestly pleased for you. For the guy with £11,000 of tickets...greed is a deadly sin sir!

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

I didn´t get any tickets either. Mind you, I didn´t apply so that might have had something to do with it.

But it depends on what you want. If you want tickets for one of the more popular or even only fairly popular events then it was always going to be a lottery.

If you simply wanted tickets for something just so you can experience the Olympics then even if you didn´t get anything I think you still might. I can't believe every event in every sport in on every day is going to be 100% full.

And isn't there some sort of sale back for people who don't want what they applied for and got; if so these tickets will be resold.

 

[seagullsoverlincoln]

ive been a member of UKA in all its guises for 20 years ,have supported a major live athletics meet every year for the last 15 years, and how many olympics tickets were i accepted for?-absolute zilch.
it might sound illogical and bitter-it is, but i tell you what Seb, when you've finished doling out tickets to your fat cat corperate mates you can shove the rest of them up you're arse!!

 

[ofco8]

Am a bit confused. I applied for tickets and application accepted. I paid by Visa card so money would not have come out of my current bank account!!
Therefore, surely I have to wait for my Visa Card statement to see if money has been taken!!!!
Or am I being very thick over this? No need to answer this!!!!!!

 

[Wozza]

Am a bit confused. I applied for tickets and application accepted. I paid by Visa card so money would not have come out of my current bank account!!
Therefore, surely I have to wait for my Visa Card statement to see if money has been taken!!!!
Or am I being very thick over this? No need to answer this!!!!!!

Or check your credit card balance online? It's 2011.

 

[tedebear]

Am a bit confused. I applied for tickets and application accepted. I paid by Visa card so money would not have come out of my current bank account!!
Therefore, surely I have to wait for my Visa Card statement to see if money has been taken!!!!
Or am I being very thick over this? No need to answer this!!!!!!

Yes - unless you have online banking like the rest of us and can see our credit card transactions!

Is it not a good time to mention I got some?

 

[Gazwag]

Or check your credit card balance online? It's 2011.

or if you are still in 2000, there is the telephone

 

[Billy the Fish]

ive been a member of UKA in all its guises for 20 years ,have supported a major live athletics meet every year for the last 15 years, and how many olympics tickets were i accepted for?-absolute zilch.

This is one of the problems with the system they came up with. There really should've been some kind of priority for people who are actually interested in athletics. As it is the crowd will probably be pretty unknowlegable and made up of big event tourists and competition winners. All they had to do was open an initial ballot to people who've been to a Grand Prix event in the last 10 years before the massive free for all.

What pisses me off is he is the most unsporting, overweight, mouthy git who then turned round to me and said he would try and flog them for a huge profit as he wasn't that bothered about going.

This is a problem with modern ticket allocation full stop. It's too easy for people to just sign up to a ballot and get lucky. The pre-internet days of going somewhere and physically queuing for a ticket were actually much fairer. At least if someone's bothered to camp out all night to be at the front of a line you know they've made an effort and must've really wanted it. You need to make it a little bit difficult just to put off the chancers.


You can tell the organisers thought process in having a ballott - everyone has an equal chance so it must be the fairest way. In fact they've made it very unfair because the whole thing is vastly skewed towards people who can afford to bid for everything. Also the whole process hasn't been very transparent. They haven't said how many tickets were available for each event. For all you lot know you were one of millions applying for 100 tickets to watch mens taekwondo

 

[Titanic]

...You can tell the organisers thought process in having a ballott - everyone has an equal chance so it must be the fairest way. In fact they've made it very unfair because the whole thing is vastly skewed towards people who can afford to bid for everything. Also the whole process hasn't been very transparent. They haven't said how many tickets were available for each event. For all you lot know you were one of millions applying for 100 tickets to watch mens taekwondo

I think they would have been too embarrassed to publish the figures for how few tickets were actually available at affordable prices.

 

[Wozza]

Is it not a good time to mention I got some?

Well done. But what's that got to do with Olympics tickets?