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I can't believe that I've applied for sailing tickets; when we can just sit on the beach and save £40 each.

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I overheard a couple of people talking in Sainsbury's yesterday. One woman said that her brother had applied for tickets totalling £3,600 and the whole amount had been taken from his account.

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I overheard a couple of people talking in Sainsbury's yesterday. One woman said that her brother had applied for tickets totalling £3,600 and the whole amount had been taken from his account.

 

Ouch that's gotta hurt. Just before the summer hols as well.

 

Sort of get the feeling that whole thing is likely to end up as all or nothing for many people

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Further to my earlier comment about paying for sailing tickets; it transpires that my future son-in-law knows Ben Ainslie quite well from his sailing club and has been told he can get him complementary tickets...

Bugger, I hope I lose out on the draw, but with my luck they'll be massively undersubscribed and I shall get everything I asked for.

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Further to my earlier comment about paying for sailing tickets; it transpires that my future son-in-law knows Ben Ainslie quite well from his sailing club and has been told he can get him complementary tickets...

Bugger, I hope I lose out on the draw, but with my luck they'll be massively undersubscribed and I shall get everything I asked for.

 

Ouch, that's gotta hurt.....

 

:facepalm:

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Further to my earlier comment about paying for sailing tickets; it transpires that my future son-in-law knows Ben Ainslie quite well from his sailing club and has been told he can get him complementary tickets...

Bugger, I hope I lose out on the draw, but with my luck they'll be massively undersubscribed and I shall get everything I asked for.

 

Ha! You're a fool! I will go to the sailing, but there was no way in hell I'd pay for the privilege of it!

 

Anyway, has anyones money been taken yet? I only applied for opening/closing ceremonies, the mens 100m final and a couple of veledrome sessions (probably all the most popular events). I'm pretty certain I'll end up with nothing. I would have applied for things I was more likely to get but didn't really want to run the risk of getting lucky and getting all the tickets I applied for and no be able to afford it.

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I can't imagine the 800m heats on a Wednesday morning for example are going to sell out, there will be plenty of tickets available nearer the time i'd think. They are already talking about second sales anyway.

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I applied for approx £2000 worth of tickets, but with a max exposure of £3600 (allowing for a range of ticket prices for most events). I applied for quite a few athletics and track cycling sessions as I believed these would be oversubscribed. However I also applied for preliminary round tickets to boxing, water polo, hockey and basketball.

 

Still nothing taken. The only person I know (out of at least 10 I've spoken to) who has had money taken so far is my dad - less than £100 from a similar level of application to myself. Fingers crossed for some luck this afternoon.

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The way the ticketing has been handled has been nothing short of a total farce and so typically British. Wrong from start to finish.

 

That's a coincidence then as it's the same way that ticketing for the last Winter Olympics was run as well. I think it's more to do with Visa and the Olympic committee than anything specific to London.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/8547183/London-2012-Olympic-tickets-Your-View.html

 

I'm almost having a Dune-esque Political moment reading that Local Councillors (whose salaries are paid by you the taxpayer) get to jump the queue and buy tickets for the Olympics (which was paid for by you the taxpayer), and then wonder how many of those tickets will have been ordered with their Council Credit Cards (paid for by you the taxpayer)

 

I detect the start of a nice new campaign for the Daily Snail & Torygraph once the actual facts become known

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/council-spending/8542909/Councils-spend-100m-on-taxpayer-funded-credit-cards.html

 

You pay for the Olympics then cannot go because all the seats are being taken up by people who's wages you pay and who paid for the tickets with your money.

 

SURELY, PLEASE, somebody tell me that I have this all wrong

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I applied for approx £2000 worth of tickets, but with a max exposure of £3600 (allowing for a range of ticket prices for most events). I applied for quite a few athletics and track cycling sessions as I believed these would be oversubscribed. However I also applied for preliminary round tickets to boxing, water polo, hockey and basketball.

 

Still nothing taken. The only person I know (out of at least 10 I've spoken to) who has had money taken so far is my dad - less than £100 from a similar level of application to myself. Fingers crossed for some luck this afternoon.

 

£220 taken from my account late last night. Better than nothing I guess.

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Guest Dark Sotonic Mills

Not a sausage.

 

Mind you, I applied for front-row seats for every match in the Beach Volleyball.

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