So who's applied for 2012 olympics tickets?

ic1male · 1 Jun 2011 at 09:28

Typical of BBC News to be interviewing some posh git who applied for £36,000 worth and got £11,000 charged to him. Hardly your Joe Public average is he?

Phil99 · 1 Jun 2011 at 09:45

Absolutely nothing here. That'll teach me to only apply for the events I actually wanted to go to instead of £30k worth

beachBOYken · 1 Jun 2011 at 09:57

ic1male said:
Typical of BBC News to be interviewing some posh git who applied for £36,000 worth and got £11,000 charged to him. Hardly your Joe Public average is he?

is this fair?

should there not be a limit on what you can apply for?

ic1male · 1 Jun 2011 at 09:58

He apparently seems to think that's only three events worth - 100m finals, opening ceremony AND closing ceremony.

beachBOYken · 1 Jun 2011 at 10:06

So is there a limit on how many events you can apply for , otherwise it seems a bit unfair for people who can only afford one event ,and a rich bloke can just apply for the lot and have more chance ?

EdwardTeach · 1 Jun 2011 at 10:08

HangTime said:
Now into June and there's been no attempt to take any money from my account, bit strange as I applied for mostly unpopular events (early rounds of basketball, table tennis etc) so would have thought I would at least get something, especially as only 1/7 applicants are supposed to be getting nothing and I would have thought a high proportion of those are people who just went yeah, I'm gonna have opening ceremony and 100m final.

That said when it started the said payments would be taken up until 10th June so maybe this "vast majority by 31st May" email was a bit of a red herring in my case.

Same here, I applied to a lot of events, so would be surprised to be 100% unsuccessful. However like you I am yet to have any money taken out.

Aero · 1 Jun 2011 at 10:12

£46 taken out for me

So thats either 100m heats & round 1 or 2 football matches at coventry.

ic1male · 1 Jun 2011 at 10:16

beachBOYken said:
So is there a limit on how many events you can apply for , otherwise it seems a bit unfair for people who can only afford one event ,and a rich bloke can just apply for the lot and have more chance ?

No, that's it. The more money you have, the more chance you can have to see something.

But the guy they interviewed was taken aback by how a lot more people didn't take more chances. e.g. his credit card limit was only £10,000 but he applied for £36,000 worth. He had to ask for an increase of £1,000 more on his limit but as he said, if it had been any higher he could have simply refused the offer as his credit card would have been declined.

It seems most people have been sensible in only trying to acquire what they could pay for at the time.

#Chri5# · 1 Jun 2011 at 10:56

Nothing so far

-Ad- · 1 Jun 2011 at 11:16

Amount of Basket Ball tickets won = 0
Amount of Taekwondo tickets won = 0

Amount GF won from her £1k stash = £60

Great stuff :/

sid · 1 Jun 2011 at 12:07

Theres gonna be a furore over this. I can't imagine many tickets are left for round 2. Even on the bbc news, the comments are complaining about ppl getting at most 4 tickets.

Clearly the strategy was to apply for thousands which isn't sensible for anyone

Jonny69 · 1 Jun 2011 at 12:21

beachBOYken said:
is this fair?

should there not be a limit on what you can apply for?

His might be six £2000 tickets. Mine might be six £50 tickets for all I know. The only difference is his were the more expensive seats. It really is just the luck of the draw and if he can justify £11K then fair play to him.

iamtheoneneo · 1 Jun 2011 at 13:06

what a joke...nothing here, none of my work peps or friends have any either.

i hate to jump to accusations - but its a completely unfair system that essentially rewards the greedy.

-Ad- · 1 Jun 2011 at 13:56

iamtheoneneo said:
what a joke...nothing here, none of my work peps or friends have any either.

i hate to jump to accusations - but its a completely unfair system that essentially rewards the greedy.

Same with a load of my friends.

About 30% of people who have applied have got some tickets but at most each of these have only won a single pair.

This is going by e-mails flying around and facebook status' of about 10-15 people.

garethrobinson1 · 1 Jun 2011 at 16:56

£86.48 taken out of my account, so that's either 4 Opening or Closing Ceremony tickets. Delighted with that, even though I applied for Athletics & Swimming too

ic1male · 1 Jun 2011 at 17:10

£20 for the ceremonial tickets? Where you gonna be? Outside the stadium?

garethrobinson1 · 1 Jun 2011 at 17:37

hehe... they offered a bunch of tickets at a special price of £20.12p for the Opening & Closing Ceremonies, so I guess I got lucky!

cheets64 · 1 Jun 2011 at 17:40

What a shambles, typical British thinking these days, lets make a much money out of this = only the rich can afford to go, typical of London tbh

Jonny69 · 1 Jun 2011 at 17:45

You can't afford a £20 ticket? Isn't a football match more than that now?

cheets64 · 1 Jun 2011 at 17:50

They know nobody from the north will go down to London, its going to cost a fortune to stay over/eat, even just to get down with petrol costs.

So who's applied for 2012 olympics tickets?

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