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Olympic Venue Tickets ?
« on: July 28, 2012, 21:34:15 PM »
I'm a little confused (which isn't difficult !) ???, with all the pre - games fuss over the availability of Olympic venue tickets, why is it that every event I've watched today on television, it appears that only about half the seats are occupied ??, I thought it was a sell out  ??? ??

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« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2012, 22:06:32 PM »
Me too  ???  lots of people I know wanted but couldn't get tickets. Even the commentators commentated on the very large number of empty seats.

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« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2012, 22:26:21 PM »
And you can be sure that Lordie Coe will dismiss it with some excuse or other.

A great runner in his time, but he really gets on my elbow now.

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« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2012, 23:11:10 PM »
Probably just the same as at a lot of major sporting events, where corporate clients buy up chunks of tickets, but the guests they invite are only interested in the wining & dining aspect & not at all in watching the event

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« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2012, 10:48:07 AM »
And you can be sure that Lordie Coe will dismiss it with some excuse or other.

A great runner in his time, but he really gets on my elbow now.

Got to agree on this issue H, a tremendous athlete in his day and you can't take that away from him, but now his head seems to be a bit too far up his own backside ! (at the risk of sounding a little crude !!  :-[).

The news later last night answered some of my questions (also the press today as highlighted by KKOB), it appears a lot of the empty seats were due to them being allocated to sponsors, but surely they weren't allocated that many ??, and if they were, why ??, the Games are supposed to be for the People !, another fine example of the unacceptable face of capitalism !  :(

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« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2012, 10:55:03 AM »
If it was down to me I would cancel all sponsors tickets with immediate effect and immediately put all the tickets up for sale to the general public at a range of affordable prices.

How rude to have tickets to the best seats in the house and just not turn up!

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« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2012, 10:58:43 AM »
If it was down to me I would cancel all sponsors tickets with immediate effect and immediately put all the tickets up for sale to the general public at a range of affordable prices.

How rude to have tickets to the best seats in the house and just not turn up!

Hear !, Hear !, Nichola !

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« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2012, 11:33:08 AM »
If it was down to me I would cancel all sponsors tickets with immediate effect and immediately put all the tickets up for sale to the general public at a range of affordable prices.

Or give them away for free as they would have presumably have been "free" to the sponsors in the first place.

Organisers wouldn't make any money but wouldn't lose any either.

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« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2012, 11:54:33 AM »
That would be great to have some freebies and even selling tickets at £5, £10, £15... which most people could afford would generate income to a) cover the admin costs to do this and b) generate some income to offset the continued costs involved in the admiral efforts of the organizers for a sustainable Olympics project...




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