Personally, I always thought that Seb Coe - sorry, Lord Coe - was a not very bright bloke who landed a peerage and a plumb job by brown nosing to Tony Blair. Apparently, he is now proving it!
The sale of 2010 Olympic tickets has got to be the worst thought out piece of organisation that we have seen for many a year. And that's saying something. I'll explain why -
Let's assume that you actually want to attend the crock of shite known as the 2012 Olympics. Let's further assume that you want to go three times to a selection of 'sessions' (you don't get a day ticket).
So you go to the web site and buy three lots of tickets? Er, no. Too simple. You say which tickets you want and give them your plastic details, and they then decide in a month or so which tickets you will actually be allocated and then take the money
So, you've decided when and where you want to go and you've organised the tickets? Er, no. You might not get the tickets you want. In fact, you might not get allocated any at all.
So in order to have a good chance of going three times, you pick a whole selection of dates and times and you apply for your maximum allocation of 20 in the hope you will get 3 you actually like. And this is where the stupidity comes in...
Let's assume that your hunt for 3 lots of tickets has resulted in you getting 10, so now you have 7 you don't want. Too bad because they charged you for them and have your money.
The plan is that you now can sell these tickets back to the organisers at face value and they will then sell thenm them on to someone else. But not until next year sometime. So, you have just loaned the government your hard earned cash for a year at no interest.
Of course, if the Olympic sellers had just let you book on line on a first come first served basis, you would know exactly where you were, have the tickets you wanted on the day you wanted them, and they would still have sold all the tickets - and saved a shed load of admin costs on taking them back and reselling them.
And why have they decided to do it this way? Well, Lord Coe says it's fairer and ensures that people have a better chance of getting tickets. Of course, he's very concerned at the hits on the website and is impressed with the speed the tickets are being snapped up.
Like I said - not very bright!
8 comments:
Nothing but nothing surprises me at anything in which Labour & their associates have had their grubby little fingers, going Tits-up ..
Coe is a wanker of the first water, who just happened to be a runner ..
Personally, I shall be doing my utmost not to read about, see or hear one single minutes coverage of this monumental load of old bollocks they call the Olymipcs ..
Thank goodness I left London twenty years ago. Stratford and the other Olympic development areas were a real mess then and needed something of the size of this project but I'm happy to leave it to the current denizens to deal with.
Agreed, only a Labour Quango could have devised such a patheic ticket allocation* system when they should have just given it over to The O2 or Amazon.
Mention of "fairness" is worrying (if I gave a shit anyway); does your application make mention of gender, ethnicity or disability?
* I say 'allocated' beause you do not "buy" them, they are not your property, if they were you would be able to re-sell them without going to jail.
Bore off banned - thank god you have left!
Ignore him, Banned - it's always the prats that sign themselves anonymous!
This is like a nonsense scene from Heller´s Catch 22. You are dead, we cannot do anything about it :-). This allocation of tickets is fair, we cannot do anything about it, that you´ve got tickets which you didn´t want, it´s fair you know :-D. At least Lord Coe has a sense of humor.
I had an email from London 2012 today saying that they had tried to take money from my current account for tickets but the request had been refused by my bank.
It was a "no-reply" email and I couldn't find any way of contacting London2012.
Their site FAQs did not cover this.
I have plenty of money to cover the cost of tickets, so I rang my bank, only to discover there had been no request for payment from my account -- but the bank had had lots of people like me ringing up ...
In other words, total cock-up by London 2012.
I worked out we have been successful in getting tickets! We tried for 3 events, 2 good and one fall back position, so a one in 6 chance I think of getting something. And guess what, we've ended up with the third choice, a big surprise that the good events have gone else where. I did this to see if the entire ticket allocation is fixed, and proved it is 100% a con.
All going to prove that Coe is, indeed, an Olympic size c**t!
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