Seb Coe

[Geriatric Seagull]

Hear hear. I'm afraid Coe is typical of the elite who run this country. He has no idea of life in the real world- the ticketing was a shambles from day one but guess who will walk away with a knighthood!

 

[Wozza]

THOUSANDS of tickets have gone on public sale over the past seven days.

You didn't get them? Someone just like you did.

 

[nwgull]

THOUSANDS of tickets have gone on public sale over the past seven days.

You didn't get them? Someone just like you did.

Which is fine, but would it have been too much to ask to have an efficient web site that we didn't waste hours on because it kept telling us that tickets were available that weren't.

 

[RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)]

I dont understand this, there was a group of only 20,000 people who didnt get tickets in phase 1 or 2 who had first dabs on tickets in phase 3 on a first come first served basis, surely if you followed the process through all the phases you would have ended up with some tickets? Failing that there were loads of tickets going on the foreign sites (cosport, sportsworld) even up to only a couple of weeks ago and thomas cook packages for as little as £99.

Mind you saying that Im must admit I was lucky to get Super Saturday, unforgetable experience!

I can assure you I went through all phases without success. I was particularly gutted that I couldn't get tickets for the off road biking on the last day at hadleigh farm in Essex, as I live in Southend on sea about 15 minutes away. At least my father in law got me a ticket for football at wembley as a birthday present last week. Was bloody brilliant

 

[Wozza]

There could/should have been an online queuing system, like Wembley.

"You're #2587 in the queue - come back in an hour or two."

BUT I'm not sure how easy it is to run a ticketing site which can cope with hundreds of thousands of simultaneous requests for dozens of events with many, many variables.

 

[ifuhatepalacestandup]

There could/should have been an online queuing system, like Wembley.

"You're #2587 in the queue - come back in an hour or two."

BUT I'm not sure how easy it is to run a ticketing site which can cope with hundreds of thousands of simultaneous requests for dozens of events with many, many variables.

Ticket master seem to manage it daily with only the ocasional f up considering the number of tickets they sell

 

[brakespear]

I didn't apply for any tickets and I got none. I blame the Government

 

[Wozza]

Ticket master seem to manage it daily with only the ocasional f up considering the number of tickets they sell

The Olympic site is run by Ticketmaster!

Selling gig tickets is entirely different (much easier). You have huge amounts of people arriving at predictable times, chasing tickets for ONE thing (the user makes minimal choices). You don't see tickets for 30 big artists going on sale on the same day, do you?

 

[Turkey]

I got not tickets in the original ballot but ended up with tickets to 6 different events, most of which I bought in the past few weeks. So it is possible. Still checking regularly to try and get a Hockey ticket!

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Coe did look fairly pissed off with the question (and not a little unlike a pocket-sized Martin Sheen)

 

[Icy Gull]

Coe did look fairly pissed off with the question)

That's his natural look, like he's just had a whiff of a bad smell

 

[Hamilton]

Hear hear. I'm afraid Coe is typical of the elite who run this country. He has no idea of life in the real world- the ticketing was a shambles from day one but guess who will walk away with a knighthood!

Oh bog off! Moan moan whine whine.

Name me a country where there isn't an elite of some sort running things. That's the point of an elite class - they're clever! We could of course have asked Fat Barry the burger flipper who lives at No. 28 to organise it and just give tickets away to everyone that 'deserved' one, but I'm guessing the IOC might not have seen that as a winning bid.

 

[Brighton Boy]

This whole ticketing fiasco just takes me back to 10/11 season and that surge for Leyton Orient tickets in the JPT. That was a bloody nightmare

 

[junior]

i saw something the other day that if the paying ticket holder didnt turn up, they'd give them to a member of the army/navy/raf?...

Not quite true. You saw that back when the media were going with the story of all the empty seats.
Seb Coe and his chums didnt want all the negative press about empty seats so they announced that they would offer the empty seats to the Armed forces to take the sting out of the story.

The truth is that the members of the Armed Forces who have had to go down to the games to cover G4S at short notice, have been told on their days off that they are getting bussed to the Olympic venues to fill the empty seats.

Obviously now LOCOG have sorted out the seat fiasco to a certain degree, the lads that are actually asking if they can get a ticket to use on their day off are getting told to do one!

 

[Postman Pat]

I was fortunate enough to get tickets for Basketball in the first ballot, but I know lots of people who didn't get anything.

I also know quite a few people who sat on the internet/phones for the 2nd round and were succesful. The only people I know who are struggling now are those that couldn't be bothered and have now decided they want to go.

There have been a number of free events that people could attend and seen medal winning performances, Men & Women triathlon, womens road race and Wiggo in the ITT. These didn't need tickets, anyone could have gone and watched.

 

[Hamilton]

Not quite true. You saw that back when the media were going with the story of all the empty seats.
Seb Coe and his chums didnt want all the negative press about empty seats so they announced that they would offer the empty seats to the Armed forces to take the sting out of the story.

The truth is that the members of the Armed Forces who have had to go down to the games to cover G4S at short notice, have been told on their days off that they are getting bussed to the Olympic venues to fill the empty seats.

Obviously now LOCOG have sorted out the seat fiasco to a certain degree, the lads that are actually asking if they can get a ticket to use on their day off are getting told to do one!

And your point is?

 

[ifuhatepalacestandup]

And your point is?

i think his point is that hawlie was wrong (not rocket science since he added the quote )

 

[trueblue]

Which is fine, but would it have been too much to ask to have an efficient web site that we didn't waste hours on because it kept telling us that tickets were available that weren't.

Precisely this. Yes, it's a lottery and demand far outstrips supply. But the basic point that the organisers are missing is that the website is a joke. It takes hours to go through the process of attempting to buy tickets as there's no ability to search by price and, when your bid fails, you have to 'remove' that application and start all over again. The only way to speed this up is to apply for lots of tickets in one go, running the risk of a huge bill. In the initial ballot that was a cynical enough ploy but offset by the fact that people knew they would've able to resell for events they couldn't get to. At this stage, that's no longer the case (not legally anyway) do the system is just not fit for purpose.

I'm not just being bitter and twisted - I'm going today.

 

[Hamilton]

i think his point is that hawlie was wrong (not rocket science since he added the quote )

I think you and I both know that's not true. There was a lot more to the post than just saying "Hawlie you're wrong." You just have to read the whole post. As you would say, not rocket science.

 

[maltaseagull]

Prince William and Harry didn't have any trouble getting them.

I guess they can go to any event they like which means there are 2 empty VIP seats at every other event taking place at the same time.

If that's correct it's pretty unfair.