2012 Olympic Games

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Richard_Allen]Richard Allen
Are you planning on going to the London 2012 Olympics? Well if you are then you need to get a ticket and at the minute that may not be so easy.
The first wave of tickets that were issued allowed you to bid for tickets over a six-week window. You could bid for as many sessions and as many tickets as you liked. The only stipulation being that if you got all of the tickets that you applied for you were legally obliged to buy them all. So if you applied for �5,000 worth of tickets and by some lucky chance managed to get them all then you needed to have �5,000 on hand when it came to paying.
The problem and the thing that most people have found most annoying was that the money was not taken off of your Visa card straight away; it was only taken several weeks later, and even then you had to wait several more weeks after the money was taken out in order to find out what tickets you had actually got.
This led to a somewhat annoying situation of people having money taken out of their accounts without a clue as to what tickets that they had been successful in getting.
Many people applied for far more tickets than they needed on the assumption that they would only get a fraction of the ones they wanted, and indeed this has proved to be true with many people applying for around �2,000 of 2012 tickets only to get just �120 worth.
The opening ceremony and closing ceremony, as well as the major athletics finals were massively oversubscribed resulting in many people missing out. Indeed over 250,000 people that applied got no tickets at all in the first ballot.
There was then a second chance to buy tickets but only open to those who had got none in the first wave. However this second wave of tickets was released on a first come first served basis, this time however people only had to wait 48 hours to know what tickets they had got, and they could only apply for three sessions, which seems much fairer and has left many people asking the question why no limit was put on the number of applications in the first wave.
Overall this process has left many people frustrated and ticketless, with stories of some people getting all the allocation they wanted including opening ceremonies as well as 100m finals, leaving many people questioning how fair the process was. London 2012 now faces a battle to win back public credibility.
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