@maximillion Said 
not selling tickets at the door..
all those empty seats could be filled on a 1st come 1st served basis fill it up and look a bit better and make more money
Some tickets, returned by IOC members as not required are now on open sale at Olympic venues. £5 (approx $7.85) for adults and £1 (approx $1.67) for children / OAP's. That's pretty darned good value for money in my opinion, to see the cream of the world's athletes.
I'm expecting there to be complaints from regular ticket holders next as to why they had to pay premium rates and others are getting tickets significantly cheaper. Ho hum. You can't win. No matter what you do, somebody is going to grumble. From where I sit, I don't begrudge a single penny of my ticket price. I'd have paid twice that.
But the reason no tickets went on open sale was twofold.
Firstly, it's about management. If you have an online sale, then people know they have tickets can arrange their travel, hotels, spending, etc, etc.
To put only a few tickets on open sale would have prompted large numbers of people to travel into the capital.... far more demand than supply could possibly satisfy. If you want an example of that happening, ask anybody who lives in Wimbledon what things are like for two weeks of every year..... and that's just for tennis. Imagine that being repeated on the scale of Olympic Games..!!
Imagine the disappointment of people who travel from various parts of the country in the hope of getting a ticket only to be disappointed.
As I said, some tickets have now gone on open sale and I believe people can phone in and reserve them, or rock up at the stadium and buy them there. It is being emphasised though, that these tickets are few and most likely will be sold to local people who want the Olympic experience wherever.
It's a compromise situation and if (big if) it's managed properly, it should enable some people to see the Games at a bargain price. I don't have a problem with that.
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Jul 31, 2012 @ 07:12:42
