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[Olympic Fan Darcy]

Don't i know if there is a thread but in preparation or during the games have you bought some 2012 merchandise if so what sort?
I have gotten a Olympic bus and collecting the McDonalds cups but waiting for it all to go on sale so i can get heaps of stuff!

[Olympic Fan Darcy]

[SkiFreak]

Nothing with the London 2012 logo as they didn't sell anything here. But I did get a Team Canada red hoodie - the one with the badges on it, and the denim jacket they wore at the closing ceremony.

Oh... I did download off iTunes the albums for the opening and closing ceremony - those were available thru the Canadian iTunes store.

Question: Does anyone want to trade Lodon 2012 pins for some Vancouver 2010 pins? would love to get a few London pins and I have a number of Vancouver pins to trade if anyone is interested.

[Olympic Fan Darcy]

Nothing with the London 2012 logo as they didn't sell anything here. But I did get a Team Canada red hoodie - the one with the badges on it, and the denim jacket they wore at the closing ceremony.

Oh... I did download off iTunes the albums for the opening and closing ceremony - those were available thru the Canadian iTunes store.

Question: Does anyone want to trade Lodon 2012 pins for some Vancouver 2010 pins? would love to get a few London pins and I have a number of Vancouver pins to trade if anyone is interested.

Good luck

[tractarian]

Don't i know if there is a thread but in preparation or during the games have you bought some 2012 merchandise if so what sort?
I have gotten a Olympic bus and collecting the McDonalds cups but waiting for it all to go on sale so i can get heaps of stuff!

Last year I attempted to purchase about $100 worth of merchandise from the official online London 2012 store.

The website informed me I couldn't order because I was located in the US, and it directed me to the USOC's website. The USOC website had no officially-branded London 2012 gear. So I'm $100 richer, but I don't have any London 2012 merchandise.

Such a shame that London 2012 wouldn't take my money!

[scooter133]

I was actually able to get some things on sale in London during the Games. A Debenham's near where I was staying had their clothing on sale, and Marks & Spencer did as well. I also got some things on sale at the John Lewis on Oxford Street even though I didn't know they were on sale until after I paid. If the merchandise stores at the venues were anything like they were when I was there, there won't be anything left!

I'm thinking about getting the BBC's Blu-ray collection of their Olympic coverage. Does anyone know if a British Blu-ray would play in my American Blu-ray player?

[dancingbrogues]

Two things: It depends whether the disc manufacturer decides to encode for regions or not. A lot don't, I have quite a lot of Japanese and US stuff that I can play on my British player but the occasional one that I can't, so have to use the lappie for those. A lot of BBC stuff is region free if you want to take the risk, but even then your system might not be able to cope with the difference in frames per second (50hz is European standard) (60hz is US). Sorry can't be of more help.

[paul92]

Anyone know if the London 2012 official store will be having any kind of sale?

I've heard on another forum or a warehouse sale soon - but that wasn't confirmed

[Olympic Fan Darcy]

Anyone know if the London 2012 official store will be having any kind of sale?

I've heard on another forum or a warehouse sale soon - but that wasn't confirmed

I really hope so and i'd assume so, what else would they do with it? At least try and make a little bit more money surely.

But me thinks they won't go on sale til after the Paralympics

I've been getting emails saying that there is free postage to the UK but not to anywhere else unfortunately

[gotosy]

Sports equipment and ceremonial props are among thousands of Olympic mementoes which are being auctioned online by London 2012 organisers.

Lots include a table-tennis ball from the men's gold-medal match, currently with a bid of £142, a javelin at £605 and a Mary Poppins costume at £705.

A torch signed by Team GB cyclist Bradley Wiggins sold for £13,000.

Locog says the money raised will go towards covering the cost of staging the Games.Olympic equipment and memorabilia put up for auction


The proceeds will also subsidise additional costs incurred by selling the £500 Olympic torches to thousands of bearers at the discounted rate of £200.

In total 8,000 people carried torches during the 70-day relay.

Torches themselves - some of which are signed by athletes, including Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton - are also being auctioned.

Locog says several thousand items will be sold, including javelins from the men's and women's contests and national flags from the opening ceremonies.

The US flag sold for more than £8,000, while China's - bidding for which is due to end soon - is currently going for £4,004.

Olympic memorabilia is also offered - a 1960 Rome Olympic torch forged from bronzed-aluminium and 39.5cm long - is going for £7,000, with another 15 days of bidding left.

However, those with less expansive bank accounts can still take heart.

Among more affordable items are a plastic rubbish-can drum from the opening ceremony at £25 and the official results sheet for the judo 90kg bronze-medal match (£60).

For the utilitarian-minded, fixtures, fittings and equipment are also being sold on another website, Remains of the Games.

On sale there are extension cords for £2.50 and an athlete's four-piece bedroom set (including bed) for £99.

London is not the first to sell memorabilia in order to raise funds towards the cost of putting on the Games.

In Vancouver after the 2010 Winter Olympics, sales of official merchandise made upwards of 100 million Canadian dollars (£64.4m).

BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19266219