New Posts For Thread: farcehttps://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29258025/farce"Lord Coe added organisers would fill some of the empty seats with servicemen and women, as well as local students and teachers.And they would sell more tickets - as they did with about 1,000 tickets on the London 2012 website on Saturday night"FirstI applied for 12 lots of tickets and got one pair. My girlfriend another five - got none. She then got Boxing tickets but were told it was oversubscribed. I feel I've been utterly robbed.https://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29258025/farce?post_id=522401105#522401105I applied for 12 lots of tickets and got one pair. My girlfriend another five - got none. She then got Boxing tickets but were told it was oversubscribed. I feel I've been utterly robbed.Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:30:29 -0500Loads of touts were arrested the other day. That imo is why there are a lot of empty seats. If people were allowed to sell tickets freely there would be no problem.https://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29258025/farce?post_id=522400481#522400481Loads of touts were arrested the other day. That imo is why there are a lot of empty seats. If people were allowed to sell tickets freely there would be no problem.Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:12:46 -0500Seats not filled have been pre allcated to sponsors and Olympic officials. These people are obviously on a Jolly and are being enetrtained elsewhere no doubt and have no interest in watching the events. That is rubbish. The seats are everywhere in evhttps://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29258025/farce?post_id=522399991#522399991Seats not filled have been pre allcated to sponsors and Olympic officials. These people are obviously on a Jolly and are being enetrtained elsewhere no doubt and have no interest in watching the events. That is rubbish. The seats are everywhere in evSun, 29 Jul 2012 09:56:05 -0500I've twigged it now,sponsors dish out their allo,to whoever,those people either,don't want/can't afford to go or perhaps more importantly they can't resell them.If what has happened has blocked the touts...good. No law against reselling them.Completehttps://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29258025/farce?post_id=522399949#522399949I've twigged it now,sponsors dish out their allo,to whoever,those people either,don't want/can't afford to go or perhaps more importantly they can't resell them.If what has happened has blocked the touts...good. No law against reselling them.CompleteSun, 29 Jul 2012 09:54:38 -0500My nephew , who works full time professionally in a similar situation to those trying to sell ( or not sell ) tickets told me at the initial application process (rejection of valid sporting applications , non high profile ) that the organisation of thttps://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29258025/farce?post_id=522395853#522395853My nephew , who works full time professionally in a similar situation to those trying to sell ( or not sell ) tickets told me at the initial application process (rejection of valid sporting applications , non high profile ) that the organisation of tSun, 29 Jul 2012 07:10:43 -0500I've twigged it now,sponsors dish out their allo,to whoever,those people either,don't want/can't afford to go or perhaps more importantly they can't resell them.If what has happened has blocked the touts...good.https://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29258025/farce?post_id=522395783#522395783I've twigged it now,sponsors dish out their allo,to whoever,those people either,don't want/can't afford to go or perhaps more importantly they can't resell them.If what has happened has blocked the touts...good.Sun, 29 Jul 2012 07:07:40 -0500Seats not filled have been pre allcated to sponsors and Olympic officials. These people are obviously on a Jolly and are being enetrtained elsewhere no doubt and have no interest in watching the events.https://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29258025/farce?post_id=522395683#522395683Seats not filled have been pre allcated to sponsors and Olympic officials. These people are obviously on a Jolly and are being enetrtained elsewhere no doubt and have no interest in watching the events.Sun, 29 Jul 2012 07:03:03 -0500This happened in Peking 4 years ago(what do the sponsors get 30%,40% of tickets per session for every event)Coe said it won't happen in London.https://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29258025/farce?post_id=522395677#522395677This happened in Peking 4 years ago(what do the sponsors get 30%,40% of tickets per session for every event)Coe said it won't happen in London.Sun, 29 Jul 2012 07:02:43 -0500an example of how corporate these joke games have become imhohttps://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29258025/farce?post_id=522395671#522395671an example of how corporate these joke games have become imhoSun, 29 Jul 2012 07:02:15 -0500councillor, who pays hundreds of quid for a ticket then fails to turn up? not many ordinary families can afford to do thatthey are 'olympic family' seats that are emptyhttps://community.betfair.com/commonwealthgames2010/go/thread/view/114965/29258025/farce?post_id=522395609#522395609councillor, who pays hundreds of quid for a ticket then fails to turn up? not many ordinary families can afford to do thatthey are 'olympic family' seats that are emptySun, 29 Jul 2012 07:00:11 -0500