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Re: London 2012 Olympics

#71 Post by superhero » Tue May 31, 2011 9:59 pm

Wow looks like most people didn't get tickets then.
I applied for the biggies but the cheapest tickets, I think they must be the most popular.
Who would p*y lots of money for tickets when you don't even have a seating plan!!!
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#72 Post by funthing29 » Tue May 31, 2011 10:47 pm

Some events have been heavily oversubscribed while other events sold insufficient tickets.

I believe a second ballot (or some kind of ticketing system) will come into effect to allow the left over tickets to get b*ght.

Just for trivia, 1 million people applied for the men's 100m final but there were only 40,000 tickets available. I can't imagine any other event attracted nearly so much interest.
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Re: London 2012 Olympics

#73 Post by canadian_turtle » Tue May 31, 2011 10:48 pm

Nothing takes off my account :( I only applied for a few things though and the cheap tickets at that. Still I was foolishly hoping...
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#74 Post by andrews » Tue May 31, 2011 10:51 pm

I have yet to hear of anybody I know, anywhere in the country, getting tickets!
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Re: London 2012 Olympics

#75 Post by superhero » Tue May 31, 2011 10:55 pm

I was one of the million who went for the 100 metre final :oops:
funthing29 wrote:Some events have been heavily oversubscribed while other events sold insufficient tickets.

I believe a second ballot (or some kind of ticketing system) will come into effect to allow the left over tickets to get b*ght.

Just for trivia, 1 million people applied for the men's 100m final but there were only 40,000 tickets available. I can't imagine any other event attracted nearly so much interest.
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Re: London 2012 Olympics

#76 Post by Yinster » Tue May 31, 2011 10:55 pm

andrews wrote:I have yet to hear of anybody I know, anywhere in the country, getting tickets!
Friends have tickets for the football. Guess it depends on how popular an event or sport is
funthing29 wrote:Just for trivia, 1 million people applied for the men's 100m final but there were only 40,000 tickets available. I can't imagine any other event attracted nearly so much interest.
Ironic that the most expensive tickets for this particular event is £750 if I can remember correctly to sit in front of the finish line works out at £85 a second if they run a 9 seconds race.
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Re: London 2012 Olympics

#77 Post by funthing29 » Tue May 31, 2011 10:57 pm

andrews wrote:I have yet to hear of anybody I know, anywhere in the country, getting tickets!
I don't know anyone personally who got tickets but I've heard of some people who were allocated almost everything they applied for, which they can't afford. 8O
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Re: London 2012 Olympics

#78 Post by superhero » Tue May 31, 2011 10:58 pm

I think I went for the cheapest ones, they must have been around £50
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Re: London 2012 Olympics

#79 Post by claire » Wed Jun 01, 2011 6:52 am

funthing29 wrote:
Just for trivia, 1 million people applied for the men's 100m final but there were only 40,000 tickets available. I can't imagine any other event attracted nearly so much interest.
and out of them most people have apllied for 4 tickets so only 10,000 will be successful out of 1million
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Re: London 2012 Olympics

#80 Post by claire » Wed Jun 01, 2011 6:54 am

i have heard of 1 person geettiing tickets.
and yep they only applied for football too
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