[Closed] Olympic Tickets - Have you had a payment taken yet?

Monday apparently:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13408398

Nothing here yet.

Haven't checked yet

If you'd written that charging app you'd be running a few transactions through then double checking all the transaction files before you just switched it on to let it go crazy, so I expect a very slow roll out with the charging given they have opted for a month long window to process it all!

toby1 agreed(+1). I'll be very impressed if it all works - seems like a very complicated system to write.

fingers x'ed that we get all our tickets (except for the speed canoeing that we applied for by mistake...)

Thank's toby1 for the insight

So chances are we couild all be in for a long nail biting wait, hardest thing for me is going to keep enought funds in the account for the payment to clear 😉

There was someone on the radio bragging that he got his complete order of tickets though (£400), which included the opening and cycle track tickets.

Just had a look at my account - nothing paid out to any Olympic related stuff

Anyone got tickets yet then? Still waiting here...

nothing deducted yet...

not here.

its interesting re: the 100m final. they say 1m tickets, but if you think about it, the average request will be at least 2 tickets, and there's 50,000 seats (or thereabouts) meaning your chance of getting some is 1 in 10. Sure, that's not great, but i've subscribed to things with much lower odds before

I imagine the majority went for the 20 quid tickets of which there will be a lot less than 50k.

and there's 50,000 seats (or thereabouts)

80,000 seats, 40,000 for sponsors 40,000 for us according to Seb

Still nothing here too, saying that, I don't know anyone yet who has had a payment taken?

When did they say they would stop putting the payments through?

so apparently 60% are now done. Nothing on my end - anyone else? How much was taken vs your maximum figure?

I've had mine taken

comes up as O2 on the statement - several issues of tickets here already, each for a bit less than I was expecting too. Woohoo !!

Nothing taken here either 🙁

Must check my CC balance. Hope we get something, even if it's rowing or archery...

Nothing yet.....

Nope nothing here yet either, i'm hoping to see some money come out (hopefully not all though!!) 😆

Nothing when I checked last night. 🙁

Scaredypants - sorry if I'm missing something, but why does it show up as 02?

I had the same but have reported it as a fraudulent transaction.

soz, just being juvenile 😳
(you're right, classic fraudulent transaction)

Cool. I thought so. Just checking.

So does anyone know of anyone who has been charged for tickets yet?

Everyone I know who has put in for the lottery is still waiting too?

What I am curious about is, did the people who got their payments taken first, get everything they ordered or just part?

Nothing taken out of my account yet, wish I just ordered from Europe we pay taxes towards the Olympics then have to go in a ballot. I really hope I get nothing If I did of know the hassle from the start I would not of bothered.

Nothing here yet 🙁

Zero interested and its only 1 mile away

Had a small amount charged today, this would imply I have only been succesful in getting tickets in 1/10 events I applied for or are they charging one event at a time, anyone know?

Looks like I had a small amount charged today too, also suggesting that <10% of my (reasonably chunky) application was successful. Maybe it's an initial payment, but if that's it, I'm a tad disappointed/ underwhelmed...

Better than nowt though. Probably find it's something else and my wife has been ordering more Boden stuff for the kids (tho' she denies it!).

so, apparently 2012 ticket payments are completing on tues. I've no sign of anything going out of my account, which i'm pretty surprised by as I had a load of tickets for a load of random events. Whats the score with you lot?

Payment went out for me today.

Some people around my office have been billed - I haven't 🙁

Nothing yet for me!

I only know of one person who had a charge go through
(yesterday, 2 tickets from 32 he ordered, now he has to pick which of his family of 4 will get the 2 tickets!)

Nothing yet for me...

Nothing 🙁

Had a small amount taken out. Don't think we got BMX or MTBing... 😥

Nothing at all, still holding onto hope that there will be loads going through today before midnight.

What are the chances that the ones that are going through today are all for one or two tickets only?

We applied for four events and a charge has gone out today which is equal to just one of those four events but don't know which one! 2 tickets btw.

No tickets yet but we applied for events with pay your age tickets available. Hmmm, could it be that they would go to people paying for 3 full price tickets and not us with our 2 full price and a 2 year old? Conspiracy, us, no, never!!
Still, gutted we've got nowt so far and we went for some really random stuff including slalom canoeing and weightlifting!
Surely they'd rather fill seats with £20 tickets than have empty arenas?

We applied for about £3.5k work of tickets and got £450 taken from the account! Not sure what we have got yet! Oh well might have to go to the Handball after all!

£3.5k!!!! Dear god man, did you really want all of them or were you hoping they didn't all go through?
Anyway, just rung bank and have a debit pending of £48 which is the value of 1 set of 3 tickets. Please let it be the boxing or weightlifting and not the canoe slalom (that was just to kill some time!), definately not BMX finals though!
Oh yeah, it says on the website that payments go out from 10th May to 10th June. Does this mean they still have to ballot for oversubscribed tickets or has that already happened?

We applied for about £600 worth of tickets in all sorts of stuff, mostly in different arenas. Rowing, track, cycling, canoe slalom, athletics, xcmtb. Will also try and get to the time trail and road race. So far no money has changed hands.

We applied for about £2.5k of tickets (on the basis that we might get about 10-20% of them!). So far, nothing charged to my account. It's now just past 10pm on the Tuesday when it's reported all payments will be completed.

WTF?

Nick

Applied for max £600 here... rowing, weightlifting, track cycling, triathlon general admittance and women's mountain biking general admittance. Nothing. 😕

I thought I'd read somewhere that women's mountain biking was under-subscribed and would be going to round 2... will be annoyed if they open that for round 2 without us having gotten in on round 1! 👿

Kip +1... although I guess we had more chance than you did - our little one will be 3 at Olympic time so would be worth 50% more! 😉

Nada so far. Bit of a snafu if you ask me.

Me also, applied for about £2.5K of stuff knowing it would all be very popular/oversubscribed events and sessions and hoping to get maybe a quarter. Nothing yet.

women's mountain biking

Was mentioned in an email about 2nd chance tickets that you might be able to get.

Nothing for me!

Not sure I want to go through this all over again for sloppy 2nds tbh.

I am a tad miffed, my Pop would have loved to have gone to the Olympics, his sport was Hockey & he spent all his life coaching kids to play Hockey, he is very ill & will not see it to 2012, but every time I call, or he calls me, he asks me if I have any news about [b]our[/b] tickets!

That's life for you I guess.....

got the email last night saying they'd tried to charge the card but failed. 🙁

Upon inspection it seemed some over-excited muppet (that'll be) managed to get the expiry date of the card wrong by one digit. Cue emailing the website and getting on the phone this afternoon to follow up. Thankfully all sorted - no idea how much they've taken yet but at least I'm getting something ( almost £800 worth applied for)

good luck everyone

TM

well, I've got nothing yet, and nothing 'pending' on my account. £616 worth of ticket (10 pairs), some I was never going to get (closing ceremony) but we have an early tabletennis heat!

grr 🙁

Put in for about £2k's worth, mainly cycling and athletics. Sister and mother in law did the same the only charge made is a £140 deducted from my cc which I think is for a random session of weightlifting tacked on as an afterthought. But at least it's something.

I only applied for £400 worth because i didnt want to risk it all coming out, wish I had applied for a load more though because it appears people are getting barely any of the amount they bid for.

Guess i wont be going tho..... 🙁

Balance on credit card still zero so I guess I didn't get any 🙁

Has £99 out of a possible £900 taken.

Website is still stating

If you are successful, payment will be taken between 10 May 2011 and 10 June 2011.

Where is it reported, officially, that payment will be taken by the 31st May?

I applied for £260 worth and have either got two for the 2nd round of the football at Wembley, or BMX final by the looks of it. I was expecting to have to send some back but I think I'm quite happy to have got anything as it turns out.

I'm still planning on watching the road racing & marathon though. I was under the impression that the £20 XC mountain biking tickets were just for the finish area and that you could watch along the course for free but from the sounds of it that is not correct? Oh well, TV it is then!

Looks like it's 2 games of football at Old Trafford that we've got then.

nothing here (swimming 1 final and some heats)

oh well I'm going to spend the cash on bike bits instead

Applied for £2.1k worth on tickets on a gamble.......got 4 tickets to see the rowing! At least it is near home. Bit of a shambles really wanted at least to take the kids (8&9) to the Olympic village to see something. Good old British **** Up

3k application => nada.

I was so chuffed when we won this, now pretty hacked off with the whole thing. Now seriously thinking about renting out my place in N.London during the games, if someone wants to pay me silly money I will take the family on a nice 2 week holiday.

Applied for all the BMX events, single ticket for each (*sob*) and got nothing.

Where is it reported, officially, that payment will be taken by the 31st May?

Not all but most payments should have been debited by the close of play yesterday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13592886

Well I *only* tried for 3 pairs of tickets = £300, but my story is the same - Nowt.

I was moaning on Twitter about it then realised I'm certainly not the only one; Bradley Wiggins tweeted that his Wife and Kids did't get any tickets so will have to watch his team pursuit on telly. Ridiculous!

It's a proper mess up. Gutted.

Just checked, nothing!

and watch out for the empty seats on the day.....half of tickets going to sponsors for a lot of events, are their guests REALLY going to show up for a lot of this stuff? I've been to enough corp entertainment events and sat in a row of empty seats for half the day. Wimbledon Ladies Quarter Finals last year.....CENTRE COURT!

I'm not convinced that there is anything worth moaning about, there are too many people who want a limited number of tickets, sure they could have done it differently but that wouldn't mean we would all have got the tickets we wanted, especially for events such as the track cycling.

If they had given more info about when the GB team would be taking part then those sessions would have been even more over subscribed. If they reduced the sales to corporates then the cost for individuals would have gone up.

Would be interesting to know how many have been given away. If it is half to sponsors then presumably that is part of the way the event is financed and without sponsor support again ticket prices would have to go up.

I applied, my wife applied and my father in law applied. So far none of our accounts/credit cards have been debited. The sessions, I selected were weekday mornings (On the basis that more people would apply for evenings and weekends).

It sounds like the London 2012 organisers asked FIFA ticket to organise the ticket ballot 😉

People are only saying it's a mess up because they didn't get what they wanted. The tickets have been sold to people who wanted to go to those events. Just cos it wasn't you doesn't mean the process went wrong! 😛

just had £96 taken out of £1500 applied for...

Well I have £216 worth of tickets 😆

No idea which sessions it is for but at least I am going to something at the Olympics.

It is a fair system in that it is drawn at random and surely confirms that we are a nation of sporting spectators if the problem we are complaining about is that it is oversubscribed.

I would still love to have got all 1K worth of tickets I asked for though.

£400+ worth of applications and nowt to show for it 🙁

Looking at what I applied for it's 2x£45 for one of the MTB events plus £6 p&p....

Had £96 taken which means we have Mens MTB or BMX. Glad I got something.

Just cos it wasn't you doesn't mean the [s]process[/s] went wrong!

I think you mean lottery

😉

Aye - and it's a massive cock up that I don't win the Euro Millions every week 😡

Sure there would have been a better way of doing it. I might have a look at what goes into the pot when people decide they don't want to go.

Also think its terrible that families of people competing don't get to go. Not expecting them to give loads of tickets, but 1 or 2 would be nice for the heats! Tom Daley complaining on twitter that his mum might not actually be able to watch him!

Applied for £1700 worth and was lucky to get a pair of tickets (£136) for a track session: men's sprint qualifying. It was the only session that I went for the "cheaper" cat C seats (hence being able to work out what I've got) - the others I opted for B thinking I'd stand a better chance.

couldn't you set your selection at 'cat b to d' so the chances were greater? I did that on the odd session that (to me) justified £50/head tickets

I don't mind not getting the tickets, but having to have a extra grand in my bank for a whole month is a bit silly.