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I have been looking at getting some tickets for the Olympics and take my Family to a once in a lifetime event etc etc.
Applications need to be in by 26th April so its decision time.

I would like to go to the Opening ceremony and see some Athletics but I am just WOW at the prices???

I expect to pay top dollar for my seat but I don't expect to pay the same for my kids who will be 8 and 10.

Opening ceremony  -       seat category one up from the cheapest £125 each X family 4 £500
100 Metre final       -       seat category one up from the cheapest £150 each X family 4 £600

£1100 I have to pay now

Not to mention transport accommodation food drink etc on the day

OK I know I am going for 2 prime events but will people pay this much cash in the current climate !!!

have any blondes actually applied yet? Is there a better way ?

opening only for me

Opening ceremony and the most important event of the Olympics and you only have to pay £1100 for a family of 4?

Snap their hands off IMO.

Tennis final and footy semi final

There's a lot more on in that session though.  But yes, for the blue ribband event it's over pretty quickly!

My daughter got first pick.  That means I am taking her to see the diving, trampolining and gymnastics.  I have also added the volleyball for me (I used to play competitively believe it or not..) and also figure that for the athletics, I can wander down there for a qualifier (or some of the other less-popular sports that are watchable) and not have a problem getting in on the day.

So far, £350.

You went for beach volleyball, didn't you?

Is there any other kind?

Thought the tennis final was quite reasonable so applied for that. Rest was too expensive I reckon. I'll see what's left over.

Can't remember if I read this somewhere or whether it fell out of my brain by itself, but why didn't they do a preference system for the tickets, along with a maximum number you want to pay for.

So you'd place your request for tickets, in order of preference.

1 - 100m final
2 - Opening ceremony
3 - Closing ceremony
4 - Vicky Pendleton
5 - Swimming final
6 - Badminton 1st round
7 - Judo or somesuch

You'd then say you want a max of 3 of these. So if you get your first three, all well and good, but if you don't then you might get ones further down your list. What doesn't happen is you get stung for 7 lots of tickets one day and so don't have to keep all that money free on your card.

BTW, nearly everyone I know who has tried for tickets has gone for the opening and closing ceremonies. Odds of getting one of those are very very slim.

I guess they have to have make people commit to a certain amount so that they don't end up with loads of tickets that people said they wanted, but then change their mind.  The people who decide that they can no longer be arsed to go to the Judo preliminaries when they have just binked a 100m or Vicky Pendleton ticket.

that's the best explanation I've heard of what next week's referendum is about

They'll already have paid for their judo ticket. If they don't want to turn up, the Olympics people won't mind.

I'm with you now, you're saying that they can only get 3 out of the 7 tickets.  I'm not sure this AV system would suit the way they're going to allocate tickets.  I'm sure if there are enough people going for full-price 100m final tickets, the allocation of these will be increased and the cheaper seats will be allocated to fewer - hence why they haven't shown the breakdown of tickets bands on a stadium plan of the seating.

I guess we all got the email just now about the ticketing:

"Thank you for applying for London 2012 Olympic tickets. As you will be aware, we have started to allocate tickets and are now taking payment from Visa credit and debit cards, as well as banking cheques and postal orders.

The vast majority of payments will be taken by next week (31 May), with the entire process completed by 10 June.

We will contact you before 24 June to let you know if you have been successful and, if so, which tickets you have been allocated.

Second chance sales
There will be another chance to apply for tickets – we are calling this ‘second chance sales’.

If you have not been allocated any tickets in the initial process, you will have the first chance to apply for tickets. This will be followed by a further chance for those who were allocated some or all of their ticket requests.

Second chance sales will include tickets for lots of great sport including Basketball, Beach Volleyball, Boxing, Canoe Sprint, Cycling (Women’s Mountain Bike), Football, Handball, Hockey, Taekwondo, Volleyball, Weightlifting and Wrestling. So there are plenty of other chances to be part of the greatest show on earth.

Card payments
Visa payments will only be taken for successful applications. If your card has been lost or stolen or there are any issues with collection of payment, we will contact you by 10 June 2011 to arrange an alternative Visa payment. "

Er no!!

But i did get an email from someone called Phil offering me scratch cards and viagra

Second chance, I may apply for something afterall, feeling bad that I didn't bother originally.

For those that have ordered tickets to more obscure events, you can make a good guess if you have got tickets by looking at the website of the German ticket resellers.

http://www.dertour.de/olympia-2012/tickets-buchen.html

You can switch to the english version and it lists all the events you can still get guaranteed tickets for.

This morning there was still some category AAs for the Men's boxing finals.  I don't know if Tom Daley does synchronised diving, but there are still pricey tickets available for that.

In a moment of stupidity I decided that there was a good chance I would get tickets for something if I applied for the finals of the canoe slalom, and I thought I would increase my chances if I applied for 2 days...and it would be even better if I put a range of ticket prices.  Looking at that website I think there must be a good chance I got both days.  Everything else I applied for looks like it has gone to the ballot.

Don't suppose anybody needs category A tickets for the canoe slalom either on the 1st or 2nd August 2012?  Good GB medal chances!

Still I suppose I should be glad I didn't order a bucket full of handball tickets

I should add that anybody in the EU is entitled to buy through that website, though they seem to have some pretty stinking booking fees.  The cheapest UK prices were £20, the cheapest on that site is 32 euros, and I think they even mark up canoe slalom tickets by close to 50%. 

I got an email telling me I'd got 2500 tickets for West Ham vs Doncaster!

 ;gobsmacked;

I think The Times did a tabloidy crappy article about how other countries are 'clearly' handling things so much better than us because people can just go on their website and order straight away instead of all the faffing about we have over here.

Obviously they pretended that it wasn't a mad click-fest for all the premium tickets when it first went live, ignored the fact that the demand over here is many many multiples of what the demand in Germany (et al)  is and skirted around the fact that it was a lot more expensive and that all the information about buying from other EU Olympic associations (and them buying from us) is on the Olympics website - so not exactly a difficult piece of detective work to uncover it to start with.

The prices were interesting  because on the London Olympics website it says that the mark up they can charge is capped - but I think they got around this by being a bit creative about when they picked the exchange rate from.

i keep getting emails from them saying it is processing and i will know at a later date very tilting!

Slightly de-railed, but couldn't help notice Paul's avatar.  If that is Original Source Mint and tea-tree, I just bought some and I strongly recommend you DO NOT use that on delicate areas.  My helmet was absolutely singing afterwards...   :o

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This one is way worse!

But it does wake you up pretty effectively if used with extreme care

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Might as well use this, if that's the effect you're after :D

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Disagree. Love the original and moved to this hoping for an extra burn if anything. Couldn't feel a thing and not nearly as refreshing.

its all good and well talking shower gels, but when it comes to hair i don't comprimise!

2 choices!!

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ty ty save me from buying

the normal one is on offer for 1£ at tescos

i bought 12 bottles :)

1 of the lads got sent off in a Sunday league game for mouthing at the ref, so he walks no bother. Then ref orders him off pitch completely, so he goes back to the changing rooms and smears this stuff (http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/images/unbranded/f/unbranded-fiery-jack-rubbing-ointment-tin-32g.jpg) in the refs undies  :D  Ref just happens to be old bill so next day he gets a knock from 2 of the refs colleagues, they gave him a verbal caution while trying not to laugh too hard.  :D

Still waiting to have any money taken off me. In the meantime I have booked up tickets for the beach volleyball test event.  ;kev; (hoping it is Ladies obv)

http://www.london2012.com/news/2011/05/london-2012-test-event-tickets-now-on-sale.php

Nothing been taken from mine yet (although the email did say this week, and I don't expect anything to go out today).  A friend of mine posted on Facebook saying some money was taken out of her account on Saturday, but other than that not heard from anyone else who has been allocated any tickets yet...

Applied for £3200 been charged £356.  >:(

Applied for £900 (I think).

Been charged £0 :(

I applied for way to many really, was bricking it that i might get charged for the lot.

I found out that if it bounces they contact you to ask for the money so i emptied my account so i could make a judgement on how much they want off me.

Then today i read that its happening today, ok no probs i think, i receive a text off the Mrs a little while later saying she's transferred a load of money to my account to pay for some wedding stuff tomorrow - panic!!!!!


Its alright though, i've moved it on again.

£40 out of £450 or so.  Its either the early rounds of football, BMX'ing OR Basketball.

£0 out of £300 for me

I only applied for what I actually wanted to go to so I don't think I'm likely to be too fussed about the second round of ticket sales - I've pretty much just got to hope for people ending up with more tickets than they wanted and selling them on next year.

I don't know many that think they have got what they wanted IE swimming, athletics and Cycling. Wished I had applied or a few more athletic sessions, but guess I should be happy to have tickets for 3 events although womens football isn't exactly a high profile Olympic event.

£0 from £8800. wtf

run better next time

Big fat zero for me too.

I'm surprised not to get the rowing tickets I applied for.  Thought that would've been unlikely to sell out this time.

£0 out of £4320 for me - sigh

£126/£730 for me, seems a bit odd (Not for me, for the other people who have posted) - bbc even confirm all amounts taken

What events did everyone apply to?

The £126 can only be for 1 football, 1 tennis or another football.

Can't think that would have sold out, although I didn't think the BMX would have sold out but must have. They are still sorting out some payments before 10th June so fingers crossed.

GreekStein and Claypole,

Did you only apply for "premium" events?

I applied for a big mixture. From premium events to stuff like weightlifting, volleyball and judo.

Then you won't have received nothing....

Would have loved to get some tickets to the swimming. Have a good few old friends competing and would have been amazing to watch. Should have been there myself tbh, but Im a lazy shit :D

This is mainly what I was hoping for. I wanted to spend a day at the Aquatics centre and so applied for the 2 sessions on one day  - in hindsight I should have applied for 20 sessions to try and get 2 of them and not bothered about exactly which ones.

But that still might not have worked, I read this morning that in one of the diving finals in Sydney there were 14 tickets available at the cheapest price point, so it might only have been possible to get what I wanted by just being richer.

I'd love to see the spread of tickets for the athletics sessions I applied for.  I suspect that the 'affordable' spread they have been talking about so much won't apply to these tickets.  For one of the sessions, I went for the 2nd most expensive seats - and was wiling to go down to the cheapest.  I guess lots of others applied for the same. 

It will also be interesting to see what the corporate allocation is for these events. 

you do know you get a better view on the bbc and if you get bored you can use the red button

Thomas Cook have a scam/rip off deal going so now we know where loads of tickets went.

http://www.thomascooklondon2012.com/2-events-1-night-travelodge-heathrow-central/9375

Using this example £20 *2 for womens football and £20 * 2 for athletics totals £80 which makes the cost of a Travelodge (and yes I do mean Travelodge) at Heathrow for a night to be £318.  ;gobsmacked;

Or if you want to go to the opening ceremony try this one for £13,998

http://www.thomascooklondon2012.com/5-events-4-nightsthe-waldorf-hilton-/8779

£0 out of about £760 for me, sigh, handball it is then

Thomas Cook and some other ticketing agency who do corporate hospitality type stuff are the only official re-sellers, i.e. the tickets they're selling were never in the general pool for everybody to buy.

The corporate hospitality is very nice, I looked at the swimming events - my estimate is you get about £2-2.5k worth of stuff and pay £4.5k for it. I imagine their other tickets were similar.

anyone got tickets for the ladies water polo they want to palm off?

 

;tightend;

Looking at how much I was charged (£940 or so from £7800 FWIW), I think there is a good chance I have got 2 lots of 3 tickets for the canoe slalom finals (1 lot of 3 going spare!  I think I am definitely going to at least one) and I am hoping the rest is 3 for the mens 100m or the relays day at the end of the athletics.  I know the mens 100m is more prestigous, but you get far more gold medals for you money with the relays day + an outside chance of a big GB medal.   

Checked my credit card account last night, just in case payment had gone out and I'd been allocated tickets late or something.

Spotted a 'ticket-sized' amount on my statement.

[  ] Was for Olympic tickets
[X] Was for my car insurance
[X] Sigh

For those with no payments yet and have applied for less popular events it might be worth checking spam mail i case emails form 2012 have been intercepted. If they don't hear back the tickets go back in to the pot (which pot who knows).

I also looked at

http://www.dertour.de/olympia-2012/tickets-buchen.html

Lots of tickets but no premium ones.

I haven't heard anything from london 2012.  I know I have got some events, as cash has been deducted.  It would be nice f they could just let us know how much each event is oversubscribed, if their computer can't work out which events we have got individually.  How hard can it be to write a bit of code that sends out an email letting us know which tickets we have straight after deducting the money? 

This was a deliberate decision from 2012 rather than a can't do. They are still processing payments at the moment and they took the view if they send any emails they will be bombarded with enquiries (particularly those that hadn't received an email yet) asking about their application.

I think i may have tickets to a premium event. is there a booking fee? £6? if so then i might have 100m final tickets, oooohh.

Sounds positive, when did that come through?

[ ] not jealous

Only just seen the cash has gone from my account, £256. This is what i ordered, so i can only think it must be athletics with a booking fee? I think its 100m final or the relays finals.

Sport: Athletics
Session code: AT005
Date/time: 05 August 2012 18:50-21:55
Venue: Olympic Stadium
Price Category: C
Quantity: 2
Total cost: £250.00
Total maximum cost: £590.00
 
Sport: Athletics
Session code: AT015
Date/time: 11 August 2012 18:45-21:30
Venue: Olympic Stadium
Price Category: C
Quantity: 2
Total cost: £250.00
Total maximum cost: £590.00
 
Sport: Basketball
Session code: BK042
Date/time: 12 August 2012 15:00-17:30
Venue: North Greenwich Arena
Price Category: D
Quantity: 2
Total cost: £190.00
Total maximum cost: £190.00
 
Sport: Cycling - Track
Session code: CT007
Date/time: 06 August 2012 16:00-18:55
Venue: Velodrome
Price Category: D
Quantity: 2
Total cost: £100.00
Total maximum cost: £190.00
 
Sport: Cycling - Track
Session code: CT009
Date/time: 07 August 2012 16:00-18:30
Venue: Velodrome
Price Category: D
Quantity: 2
Total cost: £100.00
Total maximum cost: £190.00
 
Maximum ticket total: £1,750.00

Hope it's the relay final session for you as that looks like a corker. Think that was one I applied for as well and includes the men's 5,000m final.

Obviously the hundred metres final would be pretty special too :D

that was the one i hoped for to, always loved the relays.

So com. they said all payments wld/were taken by june 1st, but it wld all be wrapped up by june 10 and confirmed by june 24.

Organised horribly, good news for me is the athletic tickets i applied for seem to have been allocated as such an amount plus the 6 quid mentioned itt has been taken by london2012.

Means i either get the 100m final night or the relays.

Wiiiiiiiii.

Not followed this much but why can't the just send you an email saying what tickets you've got? seems an abs joke how it's been done.

How many ppl who've got final tickets will actually go rather than sell them?

Some of these tickets will fetch a lotttt of money.

This

I intended to go to the Champs League final until I realised how much tickets were worth!!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/mar/11/olympic-ticket-touts-face-20000-pound-fine

not hard to get through though

I would imagine they are targeting the touts and websites rather than an individual with two tickets to a premium event trying to make a bit of money.

Just got this below.  Everything I applied for has been sold out (maybe I won't get 2 days canoeing after all), but there are some pricey athletics tickets left etc

Congratulations! We are delighted to confirm that you have been allocated some or all of the London 2012 Olympic Games tickets you applied for. You have been charged only for the tickets you have been allocated.

We are currently updating your account. We will be in touch prior to 24 June 2011 to confirm the details of which tickets you have been allocated.

We had an overwhelming response for Olympic Games tickets, with 1.9 million people applying for more than 20 million tickets. We are sorry if you did not receive all of the tickets you applied for - across all sports, two-thirds of price categories were oversubscribed and went to ballot. However, there will be further opportunities to purchase tickets between now and the Games.

This starts with an opportunity for you to request some of the remaining tickets from 6am on 8 July to 6pm on 17 July 2011. These tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis and cover a great range of Olympic sports

http://media.ticketmaster.com/en-gb/img/sys/tournament/london2012/oly-complete-a.pdf

During this second chance sales window you will only be able to submit one application, and you will be able to apply for a maximum of three sessions. Once you submit, you will receive an email confirming your application. We will advise you which tickets you have been allocated within 24-48 hours, subject to successful payment. All payments will be taken between 18 and 21 July 2011.

If you have any questions regarding your Olympic Games ticket application, please visit Frequently asked questions

Sigh, rubs:

"Your Olympic Games ticket application.

We would like to thank you for applying for London 2012 Olympic Games tickets.

Due to the overwhelming demand for tickets, we are sorry that you have not been allocated the tickets you requested. We can confirm that we have not taken any payment from you.

Demand for tickets greatly exceeded supply in the sessions and price categories you applied for. Where sessions were oversubscribed, we undertook a random ballot to allocate tickets in the fairest possible way. We had applications for more than 20 million tickets, seeing huge demand across many sports. Two-thirds of all price categories were oversubscribed and went to ballot."

and then:

"Exclusive opportunity

We would like to invite you to take advantage of an exclusive opportunity to purchase some of the remaining tickets, in advance of those customers who were allocated tickets in the initial application phase.

From 6am on 24 June until 6pm on 3 July 2011 you will be able to request some of the remaining tickets on the London 2012 ticketing website

These tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. They cover a great range of Olympic sports including Athletics, Basketball, Football, Handball, Hockey and Volleyball. Download the full list of available sports

During this second chance sales window you will only be able to submit one application, and you will be able to apply for a maximum of three sessions. Once you submit, you will receive an email confirming your application. We will then advise you which tickets you have been allocated within 24-48 hours, subject to successful payment. All payments will be taken between 4 and 7 July 2011.

We very much hope you will take advantage of this exclusive ticket offer so you can still be a part of the greatest show on earth.

If you have any questions regarding your Olympic Games ticket application, please visit our Frequently asked questions"

Utterly confused now - just received the following:

Dear Curtis,
Your Olympic Games ticket application.

Congratulations! We are delighted to confirm that you have been allocated some or all of the London 2012 Olympic Games tickets you applied for. You have been charged only for the tickets you have been allocated.

We are currently updating your account. We will be in touch prior to 24 June 2011 to confirm the details of which tickets you have been allocated.


Total funds deducted from card = £0.00

 :dontask:

You're in the cheap seats.

LOL I'm an idiot.  Just checked my application and it turns out I've been looking at the wrong Visa card statement all this time.

From the amount deducted I have either:

1) 100m Final Athletics session

or

2) Rowing at Eton Dornay

Hmmmm, wonder which it could be........

Hope you've run good and got the first one.

Here is the list of events that are available for those that didn't get any in the first round.

http://media.ticketmaster.com/en-gb/img/sys/tournament/london2012/oly-complete-a.pdf

I am stunned at how some sports have sold out, but guess we don't know how many tickets were for sale.

Obviously most of them left aren't great and are mainly ball sports, but there are a few good ones amongst them. As it is first come first served at 6am next Friday expecting a lot of people to still be disappointed.

Two of my events haven't sold out so I know I have Ladies Hockey and womens football, and I think boxing but waiting for confirmation next week. Will probably get a relative to apply for some others for me.

The BBC are reporting that of the 2.3 million tickets that are still for sale - 1.7 million are for football

The vaguely clinging at straws  positive hope is that they report that there are expected to be about a 1 million extra tickets that will become available through returns closer to the time. I expect this will be partly down to people realising they can't make it, partly from people who received everything they bid on - but mainly when the seating charts are finally published and they realise just how rubbish their cheap tickets are.

fml the female water polo is sold out now i need something else to grab onto

Full marks to the Olympic people for getting people to cream themselves into a frenzy over wanting to watch Denmark v Belarus at handball.

I just checked my account and I have

Sunday 29 July Tennis 1st round court 1

Saturday 4 August Athletics (end of Heptathalon, womens 100m semifinal and final, mens 10000m, mens long jump final, womens 400m semis, women's discuss). 

and 2 canoe slalom final days  (1st and 2nd August)

 

Alas, no!

Rowing it is then!

i got tickets for this -

Men's 4 x 400m Relay Victory Ceremony
Women's High Jump Final
Men's Pole Vault Victory Ceremony
Men's Javelin Throw Final
Men's 5000m Final
Women's Hammer Throw Victory Ceremony
Women's 800m Final
Men's 50km Walk Victory Ceremony
Women's 4 x 400m Relay Final
Men's 5000m Victory Ceremony
Women's 20km Walk Victory Ceremony
Men's 4 x 100m Relay Final
Women's 800m Victory Ceremony
Women's 4 x 400m Relay Victory Ceremony
Men's Javelin Throw Victory Ceremony
Men's 4 x 100m Relay Victory Ceremony
Women's High Jump Victory Ceremony

Pretty happy with that.

Mate of mine has got 100m mens final tickets, she seems pretty happy with that  :)

Got a female friend brag

Doobs and ACE2M get the nuts athletics sessions. 

[  ] not jealous

i got nothign

Devasted, only got football group match in Newcastle.  Going to have to look @ handball, volleyball and the rest.

Anyone try this morning? Took me ages to get 2 x tickets to the weightlifting final, slightly gutted to find even though it went through there is a chance I wont get them, I get confirmation in just over a week.

Biggest problem was filtering out all the womens events, plenty of them left.

I searched for anything on the 10th or 12th to accompany my 11th Aug tickets, absolutely nothing available. boo.

100m final tickets and pretty chuffed here.

Had confirmation of three events which were as expected Hockey, Womens football and Boxing, but also have my two tickets I won and waiting to hear which event this will be for.
Applied for more Handball, mens football and more hockey yesterday via family so waiting to hear if successful or not.
Won't be long before Paralympic ticket windows open in September and we start all over again.   8)

Anyone else applied for Paralympics tickets - the deadline is 26 September?

I've just applied for the opening ceremony and one of the athletics sessions, as I'd quite like to experience the stadium in it's original format before they let West Ham fans trash it.

The application process seems to be passing with very little fanfare compared to the main Olympics application process.  I expected it to be lower profile, but not quite this much!

Don't know what I will get but have applied for:
 Sport: Opening Ceremony
 
 Sport: Closing Ceremony
 Sport: Cycling - Track x 2
 Sport: Swimming
 Sport: Olympic Park day pass
 Sport: Athletics x 2
 Sport: Cycling - Track
 Sport: Football 5-a-side
 
Olympic park day pass looks good for anyone not following a particular sport as you can get in see a few different events on the day.

Got the charge on my card today for the Paralympics application - got all the tickets I requested.  2xOpening Ceremony plus 3 for one of the athletics session.

Thought they'd still be oversubscribed for the opening ceremony at least, so am pleased with the outcome.  I'd still expect it to be pretty spectacular.

Got them all except the Opening Ceremony  :)

More rubs from the Olympic organisers.

I got an email today saying


Unfortunately, they didn't think I deserved a shot at the Athletics tickets that go on sale (for those selected) on the 11 May.

FML.

you need to have failed in both previous sales to get a chance to buy on friday

Why can they not just re apply people who've already applied. Seems like so much fucking about. Might not bother probably have to remortgage house for 2 nights accomodation down there.

Olympic tickets have arrived. All I got was a couple of football matches;
Mexico - Korea
Gabon - Switzerland
 
FML

run better next time

See you there.

I'll try and find a decent bet!

More tickets released today - got a cheap athletics one so that I can see the stadium during the Olympics; but there were a number of sessions available.

Not including football there is still over 500,000 tickets for sale

my tickets arrived yesterday

centre court @ wimbledon, right in line with the net, 2nd round :)

Got 4 men's 100m final tickets :)

How?

In exchange for money :)

I see.

I'm still walking with a limp from the shafting I took to get 100m final tickets.

I hope you paid less than I did.

I wouldn't even be that tempted if I was offered tickets for free if I had to travel >30 minutes to watch some athletes running for 10 seconds at the Olympics. I don't get it ?

PS Enjoy.

I was always under the impression when people say "Got 4 men's 100m final tickets" that those tickets get them into the stadium/their seats for the whole day of events.

Is this not the case?

It's the whole session rather than the whole day - but quite a long time yes

forgive me being nosey but what is the going rate? don't answer if its too obscene....

just seen this bargain online:  :)


have 4 tickets seated together for the below event that includes the Men's 100m final.
Due to work commitments I am no longer able to attend this event.
Tickets in hand.

I am willing to accept £10,000 for all 4 tickets -- Serious buyers only please

Sunday August 5th 2012 between 18:00 PM -21:55 PM at London's Olympic Stadium
Session Code - AT005

Women's Marathon - Final
Women's 400m Hurdles - Round 1
Men's High Jump - Qualification
Women's Triple Jump - Final
Men's 100m - Semi Finals
MEN'S 100m - FINAL
Men's 1500m - Semi Finals
Men's Hammer Throw - Final
Men's 400m - Semi Final
Women's 400m - Final
Men's 3000m Steeplechase - Final

Sold to Mr Dubai.

I didnt pay anywhere near the going rate but im informed the going rate that people are paying via hospitality companies and touts are as follows

Cat AA- 10k-15k a ticket
Cat A- 5k-8k a ticket
Cat B- 2k-4k a ticket
Cat C- 1k-2k a ticket
Cat D- 1k a ticket

what category does he want 10k for 4? If its Cat B its about right, expensive for C or D and cheap for A and very cheap for AA

I thought I'd been shafted.

But if those prices are correct, I've got a bargain!

Went for a walk around Olympic park yesterday and unfortunately the place is going on lock down shortly for a month or so before the games. The security guy kindly told me though that affordable tickets for every event will be available daily from the ticket office for EVERY event. Apparently the Olympic committee have tried to keep that under the radar. Good news for anyone chancing their arm on the day though.

Just bought a ticket at cosport.com for the last day of the heptathlon.

Loads of tickets for various events available there if anyone wants some.

Thought I'd pop on that site to see if I could get tickets to watch the Dream Team basketball....checked my tickets I got weeks ago for the first time, turns out the only session I got tickets to is GB v Spain (world champs) and USA against a qualifier. Yummy

AA Closing ceremony ticket just gone up on offer for 2 grand.

Free profit of at least 5 grand if you want to buy it.

Maxed out my VISA card already or I'd snap it up!

If anyone wants them (it's actually 2x Closing ceremony tickets) I've got them in my cart..

Let me know in the next 20 minutes and I'll remove them and you can pick them up.

Last chance...

Going

Going

Such bastards for only allowing VISA purchases!

God, this is a ticket touts paradise!

A couple of tickets for the last day of the athletics just popped up!

Gone

:(

Removing them felt like flushing 10 grand down the drain.

crazy money :/

When I bought my athletics tickets closing ceremony tickets were available for £750 - obviously the lower category but I'd assume a profit would still have been possible if I'd been bothered by it.

I have 2 tickets for the relays finals night, aug 11th. 125 each paid for them. How much could I get for them?

What category?  i may be interested if you want to get shot of them.

nah, i'm going, just wondering.

More tickets went on sale today

Opening ceremony which i think has sold out
Closing ceremony still tickets
Football pretty much every game

I just bought 2 AA closing ceremony ones for 1500 each not sure whether to sell or go :).

Good swerve, AA closing ceremony  on the official site for £1500

Just managed to get 2xMens 200m final tickets on official site in the £150 price category.  For some reason, they were showing in all price categories earlier on, including Mens 100m final.

Worth checking back at periodic intervals as some of the premium sessions keep popping up from time to time.

Me too - got cat B Saturday for Mo and Jess ad cat A 100m - cheaper than GpS Stoke and expenaes

i've checked loads of times and never see anything as available. any tips?

Just got to time it right.  If you go on just after they release tickets you'll have a good chance.  If you don't you won't.  90% they will put more on tonight.  Register in advance to save time.  Some events are always going to be easier than others.  My missus got some diving (cat c for today's final) and hockey ones (3rd place lay off) easy enough the other day.

Yeah what Doobs said.  I have been trying for last 5 days, I am sure they have no set routine, however there was a massive release at about 11.30-11.45 last night.  I had been searching by "all Olympic Park venues" for past few days, just wanted to get there and expereince it even if handball.  Usually, I was getting one page, 5 ish events like Womens Basketball final, and odd thing not there when searched.  Suddenly at 11.40pm last night I had 15 pages of events, tbh thought the site was fcked.  Quickly changed expectation from Handball to athletics.

So if they have a routine (which is unliekly) I'd check 11.30pm tonight

There is a site which tracks inventory when the site changes and sends you an email.  Do a google search for olympic ticket tracker.  It costs $7.95 but it helped me a bit yesterday as you can get slightly ahead of the pack.  If you really want to go it is worth it imo.

http://www.os-site-tracker.com/ is the site.  fwiw the last two times tickets have become available have been 11pm last night and 5am this morning so you probably need to be looking outside normal times.

Classy website Red, old text on the homepage and a simple spelling mistake, you sure it's legit?   No harm if it's just email alerts I guess.

Like I say it worked for me yesterday.

cheers for replies.

i'm going on the 11th - trying to get something else on the 10th or 11th

Try at Midnight ish

Last two nights they've released tickets around then.

Veledrome cycling Sat and Tues available now

says currently unavailable?

Just been on the Beeb that tickets become available at night around 11:30pm, our "secret" officially out

Must have gone quick - mate just got two cat As for Kirin on Tuesday at point I posted

A good few options for Athletics have opened up.  Men's x4 100m final and all sorts if you're quick about it.

If you hurry, there's even tickets for Women's Beach Volleyball atm!!!

BUMP

Loads of tickets available right now.  Missus just got closing ceremony for 150, if you are into that sort of thing

there's also ones for £20 on the site!

Standard 15min queue for it to say none available. Got 3 accounts on phone I pad and pc all trying lol. So tilted

Aye, snap decided correct strategy was the 150s!

I would too if we could afford it.  As it stands, even the ones for £20 would be pushing it when you add the day's expenses to it.   rotflmfao 

Note to self.  Request sport tickets at same time as closing ceremony.  Computer has been showing 15 minutes for last half an hour :(

Failed again.   My missus has now got more tickets than me after originally saying that she only wanted to see tennis. 

Get her to buy yours too obv

Think there's some just gone up in theory....but I am in a queue of "15 minutes or more"...which generally results in no tickets at the end of the wait!!

Any hints?

have 3 account in queues also- generally only chance u have is buying 1 or 2 VERY expensive tickets- ie AA £725 when they are available, you are normally a million when you apply for 4 of anything particularly lower categories

Thanks Dubai. Best of luck in your hunt!

Im a million- trying to get 4 together for any of Athletics on Thurs, Fri or Sat, and didnt click AA or A

Lol. Similar boat but looking for 3 as girlfriend's mother is over and visiting - we have diving tix but a bit of athletics would be ace.

X4 are a fail, 1/2 most success and 1 defo - clearly only ok if you are billy no mates like me or happy to sit away from your partner - worked on both counts for me as taking the ex ;-)

http://tickets.prominenthosting.com/

Sandy

Not sure I'm gonna use my two tickets to the men's football quarter final at Wembley tomoro. Mate's wife is in hosp so he's been left looking after the llittle one. They're £20 face value if anyone's interested

Just picked up tickets for the Basketball final, cost more than my other 3 tickets put together - but those were such good value for money and I'm still below my initial ticket budget so I thought if I was ever going to see a basketball game live - it might as well be this one  :)up

Oh man...that match is deffo leading my 'wouldn't mind seeing that live' top 5 events.  Not jealous....much.  Enjoy and take pics ffs!  ta x