The London Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games has recently revealed that it had previously committed a mistake by overselling four events of the synchronized swimming.
The number of tickets that have been over sold for the four sessions of the synchronized swimming are 10,000 in all.
As a result of the glitch committed by the LOCOG, the buyers of the tickets have been offered alternatives to the synchronized swimming sessions that they got. Both LOCOG as well as Ticketmaster, the agent which is helping LOCOG with the ticket sales, have been busy in offering the buyers with suitable alternatives over the Christmas holidays.
The LOCOG commented on the matter in the following words, “In December we contacted around 3,000 customers who had applied for tickets in the four sessions during the second round sales process. We are exchanging their synchronised swimming tickets for tickets in other sports that they originally applied for.”
As compensation for the mix up that is being blamed on human error in the processing of the applications for the tickets, both LOCOG and the Ticketmaster has decided to provide the buyers tickets for those events which were their other preferences in the ticket applications. However, these events include some of the most sought-after events of the Olympic Games.
One of these sports include the most coveted event of the London 2012 Olympic Games which is the men’s 100 final. This sporting event has more demand because it has the added value of being played in the Olympic Stadium.
The tickets that will be made available to the buyers who bought the extra tickets will be obtained from the ones that have been kept in store for selling in May of this year. These tickets are 1 million in all, however, 10,000 of them have been allocated for the purpose of compensation for the error made by the LOCOG and the Ticketmaster.
This is not the first time that the ticketing system of the London 2012 Olympic Games has failed to deliver. During the time when the ticket sales were being made last year, the ballot ticketing system was much criticised by many quarters.