please empty your brain below

I've just had the same thing applying for Euro 2012 tickets in Poland.

I could not follow my team or watch all games in one stadium as this only works for mid range tickets (too expensive at €60+ a ticket).

Instead I applied for tickets individually at one stadium (€700+)and after ensuring the 'allocate more expensive tickets box' was not ticked, having to opt in to receive spam from them and agreeing to pay for all tickets i was allocated I was then told it is only visa credit cards that were excepted. Silly me, i assumed a visa debit card would be sufficient.

No other payment options available so I cannot even apply. Surely this will lead to more touts getting tickets as they will spend time working out how to jump through the hoops and have money to invest (premium they charge will outweigh in visa charges). I am not paying over the odds for already expensive tickets.

what now?



Last week a story was spun out saying that ticket touts were going to be fined lots of money.

How, then, is one going to be able to legally dispose of any unwanted tickets one is allocated?

What counts as touting?

Re Dear Phil, Jenny and family scenario: legally, I don't think that credit cards can be debited with unspecified amounts without companies notifying you first. I wonder how they will get round the consumer law on that?

The spin was that the fines had increased but anyone going to concerts/events/matches can see that touts are everywhere.

Will they stop ebay selling tickets? what about all the websites reselling them?

Tim - you can get a Visa pre-pay credit card which you 'charge' with money before using it. A consumer site like moneysavingexpert.com will supply details.

I can't remember the exact wording of it, but I seem to recall that reselling tickets at face value was perfectly acceptable. It's auctioning them off that's not.

I think that, as long as you've ticked the box to say that you are willing to buy the tickets at any one of a range of prices, the money can be charged. I've been buying concert tickets at Snape Maltings for years on that basis.



But, to recoup even the money one has paid for an unwanted ticket, one could not sell it for face value.

Even if one is allowed to sell them on eg eBay, at a 'Buy it Now' fixed price, by the time one has taken off eBay charges, paypal charges etc, one would make a huge loss.



Then don't use Ebay? There are a million places on the web to do this at little/no charge. You're the one person I'd expect to be aware of how to do it for least financial suffering.

Chz - enlighten me, please - I don't sell things on the web (largely because I am not a consumerist - I don't buy stuff I don't want to keep/use, and what I buy I keep until it dies, when it is recycled). Where are these million places to sell unwanted tickets at little/no charge (and with no risk...)?

What, no review of Twenty Twelve?

I think that there is to be an official site for reselling tickets, only not until much closer to the games themselves. In fact, I think I may have read it here on DG, as this is more or less my only source of information about the Olympics...

The clock isn't working either in Trafalgar Square.

Clock not working, you say?
I know, I've been there.
Here are some photos.

I hate Sebastian Coe

Oh thank you for being there.

Am I the only one here to have found DG's post about this VERY funny?!

William Hague doesn't hate Lord Coe. In fact I believe they've been very, very, good friends...

I read on the BBC website ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12751567 ) that "When the website did open, people applying for tickets found the site could not process their order if their Visa card expires before August.

Visa said in a statement: "Visa cards with an expiry date before August 2011 are not currently being accepted on the London 2012 ticketing website"

tee hee


The problem regarding Visa cards with an August 2011 expiry date can now be fixed with a hand-written note using parchment and a quill pen.











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