Here we go again...
The other day the Olympic sized twat, Seb Coe, and his merry men annouced the latest round in this long running and seemingly never ending joke.
When you get a load of tickets that you don't want, you are going to be allowed to put them up on 2012's web site so that other people can buy them off you. Nothing wrong with that I hear you say...
Well, yes there is. There's not going to be any sort of queuing system on the site. I would have written this so that people with tickets to dispose of could add them to a list of available tickets. I would than have another list of people buying tickets and would then match them together in order of listing.
Apparently, this is not the way it will work. If you want to sell tickets then they will, indeed, be listed. But if you are buying, then you will be live on line. This means that buyers have to keep enquiring in case the tickets they want become available as sellers add them. They could be offered after your last enquiry and snapped up by someone else before you look again.
This system is, I believe, known as 'pot luck'. But it's OK because you, as a buyer, will never actually know you missed out.
But the ramifications of this go much further. Because of the limitted window, millions of hits will be recorded on the site by people sitting in offices continually enquiring after tickets. This will have two major implications :
(1) Millions of man hours will be lost to employers while their employees sit on the web trying to buy tickets, and
(2) The site will crash. I guarantee it. It won't handle the volume of traffic.
Remember, you heard it here first...
4 comments:
Presumably they are trying to maximise their hit rate to show how clever and important they are.
I would like to see a total boycott of the Olympics take hold.
The taxpayers of the UK are going to have to fork-out for this huge drug and money fuelled jamboree. Your politicians, celebrities, Royals and visiting despots will be given every possible luxury free of charge whilst the local citizen will be treated like the paying serf that will be pushed aside to allow easy access for their "betters".
To add insult to injury the taxpayer will no doubt end up with a further huge bill for the loss produced by the "Games" whereas the "private" financial interests will walk away qith huge profits.
This Olympic Games aren't sport they're just a massive propaganda exercise to keep the peasant's tiny minds occupied.
"This Olympic Games aren't sport they're just a massive propaganda exercise to keep the peasant's tiny minds occupied" ...
Well said George ...
They're also a mechanism for enriching the already seriously rich .. I can't imagine Coe & Co walking away suffering any loss .. can you ?
The entire farce is one to which I won't be devoting a nano-second of my life ..
Serving people in order is probably considered to be 'unfair' or some such nonesense.
Post a Comment