London Olympics 2012 website still encountering problems
The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games has recently made it public that it was not yet certain how long it would take for the official London 2012 Olympic Games website to reopen.
However, it will not be done until and unless the problems with the reselling of the tickets were fixed. Therefore, the website is still under an indefinite period of suspension.
The LOCOG has decided to give the opportunity to the ticket holders to have their tickets resold through the official website. The ticket holders would not be able to earn a profit over the sale as the reselling is to be done on the cost price.
However, the process has experienced a set back as the website was slow to update information on the sessions that had been sold out. Both the Ticketmaster as well as the LOCOG are working on a solution to make the website work once again.
A spokesperson from LOCOG made the following statement about the matter, “We have told Ticketmaster to suspend the resale system whilst they investigate some issues customers have been experiencing. We want buying and selling Olympic and Paralympic tickets
through Ticketmaster to be a good customer experience, and so we will reopen the site once Ticketmaster have resolved these issues.”
The deadline given to the ticket holders in case they wanted to resell their tickets was the February 3, 2012. However, there has been some talk that the Ticketmaster might extend the deadline because of the delay caused by the website. But, no confirmed
reports regarding the matter have yet been made available.
In case the tickets that have been put up by the ticket holders are not sold by the given deadline, they will be returned to the owners. However, the sellers will be given the entire cost on which they purchased the ticket in case they are resold through
the official Olympic website.
The reselling of the London 2012 Olympic Games tickets have only been made legal through the official website. If any holder of the ticket is found to have been selling them in the open market that would be regarded as a crime.
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