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Re: Olympics

Post by jason » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:07 am

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What a complete waste of time... tickets just gone on sale at 11:00am, and you cannot order 'normal-people' tickets! I just want two adults, and all you can order are family (ie. 4 seats), OAP and child. Bizarre. Meh :(

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Re: Olympics

Post by Dominic » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:11 am

Sounds more like someone had made a cock up. Is there a phone number??? or on-line only?
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Re: Olympics

Post by jason » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:20 am

Ticketmaster...

It appeared as an option by about 11:10am, but already too late to buy two tickets even for unreserved seating it would appear. Oh well.

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Re: Olympics

Post by simon » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:25 am

jasonliddell wrote:[rant]

What a complete waste of time... tickets just gone on sale at 11:00am, and you cannot order 'normal-people' tickets! I just want two adults, and all you can order are family (ie. 4 seats), OAP and child. Bizarre. Meh :(
Sorry but you were just too slow.
I bought 2 for the Saturday night bang on 11:00. They sold out of the remaining tickets in minutes so BC must have had a fair chunk of them for sale in the priority sale.

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Re: Olympics

Post by jason » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:27 am

Simon, I guess I was just unlucky, cos I sat there screen refreshing from 10:58am onward. Everything appeared at 11:00 on-the-dot except the Adult option, which didn't show until approx 10 past :(

(What a frustrating experience)
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Re: Olympics

Post by PhilA » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:28 am

jasonliddell wrote:[rant]

What a complete waste of time... tickets just gone on sale at 11:00am, and you cannot order 'normal-people' tickets! I just want two adults, and all you can order are family (ie. 4 seats), OAP and child. Bizarre. Meh :(
same... i tried at same time as Simon and got exactly as u did.
I tried constant from 11am... got no tickets.
pish.
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Re: Olympics

Post by tut » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:31 am

Any OAP ones left that I could get for you Jason?

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Re: Olympics

Post by simon » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:35 am

jasonliddell wrote:Simon, I guess I was just unlucky, cos I sat there screen refreshing from 10:58am onward. Everything appeared at 11:00 on-the-dot except the Adult option, which didn't show until approx 10 past :(

(What a frustrating experience)
The adult option was definitely there at exactly 11:00 and then for some reason it disappeared shortly after.
It is frustrating though, I went through this countless times trying to get extra Olympics tickets and there was often a 30 min wait between clicking "Find Tickets" and it bringing up the "Sorry, no tickets could be found" message!

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Re: Olympics

Post by Sanjøy » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:36 am

simon wrote:
jasonliddell wrote:[rant]

What a complete waste of time... tickets just gone on sale at 11:00am, and you cannot order 'normal-people' tickets! I just want two adults, and all you can order are family (ie. 4 seats), OAP and child. Bizarre. Meh :(
Sorry but you were just too slow.
I bought 2 for the Saturday night bang on 11:00. They sold out of the remaining tickets in minutes so BC must have had a fair chunk of them for sale in the priority sale.

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Re: Olympics

Post by jason » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:40 am

tut wrote:Any OAP ones left that I could get for you Jason?

tut
:lol: At the moment, it doesn't appear possible to get more than a single ticket (Adult ones keep reappearing as folk presumably change their minds), but I'm not sure I'd pass the 'door check', Tut. Not just yet, anyway!!

I could gamble getting two single adults - since the 'cheap' seats are unreserved - but CBA with that gamble.

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Re: Olympics

Post by rossybee » Wed Aug 22, 2012 12:21 pm

jasonliddell wrote:
tut wrote:Any OAP ones left that I could get for you Jason?

tut
I'm not sure I'd pass the 'door check', Tut. Not just yet, anyway!!
Oh I dunno... :blackeye
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Re: Olympics

Post by campbell » Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:55 am

I had a look around 1pm (when I finally got time to log in...had hoped to look at 11am but work schedule precluded!).

All gone, of course.

Some avail for Friday daytime at that point, but no use with the kids.

Another time then...


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Re: Olympics

Post by jason » Thu Nov 01, 2012 12:38 pm

<boing>

Few hundred extra tickets released this morning for each session at the UCI World Cup mid-November. Get onto Ticketmaster ASAP if you missed out last time - looks like there's still some seats available :thumbsup

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Re: Olympics

Post by campbell » Thu Nov 01, 2012 2:49 pm

Awesome spot, Jason.

Team Ford just bought 4 for Saturday qually. Not sure who is going to be more excited...me or the kids!

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Re: Olympics

Post by jason » Thu Nov 01, 2012 2:54 pm

Glad to hear you finally got tickets, Campbell :thumbsup

I too was gutted to miss out in August (and an instant Ticketmaster website hater...) but this time there are still plenty available, even this afternoon. Maybe due to the poor publicity. I only found out by stumbling across an announcement on Facebook early this morning and managed to grab a pair near the finish line for Sat evening :)

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