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2012 Olympic Games
Are you planning on going to the London 2012 Olympics? Well if you are then you need to get a ticket and at the minute that may not be so easy.
The first wave of tickets that were issued allowed you to bid for tickets over a six-week window. You could bid for as many sessions and as many tickets as you liked. The only stipulation being that if you got all of the tickets that you applied for you were legally obliged to buy them all. So if you applied for £5,000 worth of tickets and by some lucky chance managed to get them all then you needed to have £5,000 on hand when it came to paying.
The problem and the thing that most people have found most annoying was that the money was not taken off of your Visa card straight away; it was only taken several weeks later, and even then you had to wait several more weeks after the money was taken out in order to find out what tickets you had actually got.
This led to a somewhat annoying situation of people having money taken out of their accounts without a clue as to what tickets that they had been successful in getting.
Many people applied for far more tickets than they needed on the assumption that they would only get a fraction of the ones they wanted, and indeed this has proved to be true with many people applying for around £2,000 of 2012 tickets only to get just £120 worth.
The opening ceremony and closing ceremony, as well as the major athletics finals were massively oversubscribed resulting in many people missing out. Indeed over 250,000 people that applied got no tickets at all in the first ballot.
2012 Opening Ceremony Tickets
Are you hoping to go to the 2012 opening ceremony? Well if you are then you are not alone. However all of the tickets have been sold. So how do you go about getting one?
Well unless you have very deep pockets then you are in for a struggle, but let us look at a few ways that you might get a ticket.
Corporate tickets – many of the tickets sold will have been bought by companies wanting to use them for client entertaining. So if you buy in goods or services then start dropping hints to your supplier that you would love to go to the 2012 games but have missed out on tickets. You may well find that one is forthcoming.
Or look to buy a ticket from a company from abroad such as Cosport who are handling a lot of the tickets sales from abroad. You may however need to get someone to buy them on your behalf if they will not deal direct, however try dealing with them directly in the first instance.
One of the best ways to buy them is via Thomas Cook (The games official travel partner) who are offering deals with a hotel thrown in with the price. Personally this is the route I would take to get a ticket.
There will be some more tickets released at the end of the year but it is unclear whether there will be any more opening ceremony tickets release or not. There may be a few returned tickets but they are likely to be small in number.
The one thing not to do is to buy them on the black market, as there will undoubtedly be a large number of fake tickets floating around, and you could find yourself with a wasted journey and a big expense bill if you have paid for transport and a hotel only to find you are refused admission to the games.