London Olympic Ticket Resales Suspended by Organizers After Computer Issue
The London 2012 Olympics ticket resale website has been suspended because of computer issues, organizers said.
Customers attempting to submit tickets to be resold online at face value were unable to do so today, leading to the temporary shutdown.
“We were having a few problems earlier in the day with customers who wanted to sell their tickets,” a spokesman for the London organizing committee said. “We’ve suspended that while we carry out an update of the website.”
It was still possible to buy tickets already listed on the site despite “a huge amount of demand,” organizers said.
The resale of tickets bought directly from the organizers runs until Feb. 3 via the buyer’s ticketing account on the official London 2012 website.
Unsold tickets will be returned to the holder’s account, with another resale in April. Tickets bought from the organizers cannot be resold on the open market without the permission.
The organizers were criticized by U.K. consumer groups last year for the way the event’s 8.8 million tickets were sold. Only 700,000 people were successful in a first-round public ballot, with 1.2 million missing out. Another sale allowed some of those to subsequently gain tickets.
Earlier this week, local organizers said a “human error” was to blame for selling 10,000 tickets too many for the synchronized swimming competition. Some 3,000 people have been contacted and offered tickets for different sports, including swimming and athletics.
To contact the reporters on this story: Danielle Rossingh in London at drossingh@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Chris Elser at celser@bloomberg.net
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