zekekelso Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 Giving ticket sales back to the national CO's provides huge opportunities for graft and corruption. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al in NYC Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 Giving ticket sales back to the national CO's provides huge opportunities for graft and corruption. Exactly, and as we have seen with Sead Dizdarevic and CoSport over the past few cycles, the USOC is hardly immune from the lure of those $$. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-Money1983 Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 OK, here are the results that turned up for me upon my request. Handball Men's Preliminaries Archery Women's Finals Field Hockey- Men's Pool Play Fencing Men's Foil Finals Athletics Men's 100m Finals, Men's Discus Throw final; Women's Triple Jump final; Men's 400m final; Women's Long Jump final; Women's 200m final; Women's 100m Hurdles final; Men's 3000m Modern Pentathlon - Finals Rhythmic Gymnastics- Group Finals My questions from here. 1. What should I jump on? 2. Now, what about flights and hotels? 3. There's a slight possibility I could be doing research work for NBC Sports. Should I invest anyways? Thanks! Andrew 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustTickingAway Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 OK, here are the results that turned up for me upon my request. Handball Men's Preliminaries Archery Women's Finals Field Hockey- Men's Pool Play Fencing Men's Foil Finals Athletics Men's 100m Finals, Men's Discus Throw final; Women's Triple Jump final; Men's 400m final; Women's Long Jump final; Women's 200m final; Women's 100m Hurdles final; Men's 3000m Modern Pentathlon - Finals Rhythmic Gymnastics- Group Finals My questions from here. 1. What should I jump on? 2. Now, what about flights and hotels? 3. There's a slight possibility I could be doing research work for NBC Sports. Should I invest anyways? Thanks! Andrew Athletics Men's 100m Finals <-- Bolt I think is doing this would be awesome to see him, probably his last Olympics. And Ive been hearing Handball is quite popular so may want to snag that now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-Money1983 Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 That said, I looked at Hotels.com and it showed a large number of hotels already booked. I just hope I'm not totally screwed on lodging. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobart Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 Get the tickets while you can. I had no problem in London getting ride of excess tickets using twitter. Both sold and swapped tickets so i am hoping it will be the same in Rio. You will always find somewhere to stay it just depends how much you are willing to pay. Anyone be interested in apartment shearing? have contacted a few of airbnb but as yet not taking bookings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zekekelso Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 It's hard to book mainstream hotels for the Olympics. The IOC (and family) blocks off a ton of room, and the asking price for the remaining rooms can be ridiculous. Think in terms of hostels, guesthouses, pousada, etc. Airbnb will be a huge source of rooms. If you really want a mainstream hotel room, wait. They are always over-reserved. The IOC will eventually release the rooms they don't need... they will likely hit the market at "reasonable" prices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chateau Petrus Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 I found a website for Bed&Breakfast Prices shown are the regular price for non-olympic period. The system allow us to book for the olympic dates but we received after a mail telling they don't accept reservation now because they will increase the prices and they haven't decided yet what will be the new prices who could be the double. I then reply back telling that I agree to pay double (in my case 170$CAN the night instead of 85$CAN) for that period. They accept and we finalized the deal whith a deposit with my credit card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zekekelso Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 2x normal is a good rate. For Carnival, rates can go up so 3x normal. I'm assuming 3x for my budget. Though, hey, if I don't have any tickets to buy I'll have lots of money left over for housing. There's the marathon, street bike races, sailing... plenty to see for free. /sarcasm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovecruisingtoo Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 Get the tickets while you can. I had no problem in London getting ride of excess tickets using twitter. Both sold and swapped tickets so i am hoping it will be the same in Rio. You will always find somewhere to stay it just depends how much you are willing to pay. Anyone be interested in apartment shearing? have contacted a few of airbnb but as yet not taking bookings. The problem with airbnb is that the owner can cancel the reservation at any time. So basically, if rents go up, the person cancels your reservation. If prices go down, you are stuck with the current price. Not a good situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ofan Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 2x normal is a good rate. For Carnival, rates can go up so 3x normal. I'm assuming 3x for my budget. Though, hey, if I don't have any tickets to buy I'll have lots of money left over for housing. There's the marathon, street bike races, sailing... plenty to see for free. /sarcasm. As of 2012, sailing is no longer free Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-Money1983 Posted May 13, 2015 Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 OK for better or worse, here's what I settled with for about $650. 8/9 Handball- 2 Mens Preliminaries 8/11 Archery- Women's Individual Finals (Gold/Bronze) 8/12 Fencing- Men's Foil Team Finals (Gold/Bronze) 8/14 Athletics- Women's Triple Jump final; Men's 400m final; Men's 100m final Any thoughts or opinions? In case I'm forced to resale (which I hope doesn't happen), any advice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobart Posted May 13, 2015 Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 I found a website for Bed&Breakfast Prices shown are the regular price for non-olympic period. What website did you use? please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chateau Petrus Posted May 13, 2015 Report Share Posted May 13, 2015 www.bbrasil.com We can choose severals language : french, spanish, italian, german, English.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobart Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 cosport live ticket sales just stared and im not surprised i cant even get to event page to see what they have Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobiesnacks Posted May 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 Cosport is as slow as a dog - why did they go for a live sale? Should have had another ballot I reckon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobiesnacks Posted May 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 Anyone actually manage to get to the Cosport checkout and buy any tickets? From what I saw this end , the whole Cosport site locked up after about 30 mins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjrolympics Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 Yes, any updates from Down Under? Availability? Website? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobiesnacks Posted May 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 The Yes, any updates from Down Under? Availability? Website? It crashed. About 50% availability of all events / classes of tickets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjrolympics Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 What does 50% availability mean? 50% within each event? Or tickets for only 50% of the events? We're there more A tickets, or more lower categories? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobiesnacks Posted May 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 50% of events. Random mixes of tickets, all classes, no particular pattern noticeable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjrolympics Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 Any Athletics, Swimming, or Gymnastics? Any Ceremonies? And what would happen? You'd get the tickets in your cart, but it would time out before you could purchase? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobiesnacks Posted May 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 No ceremonies. Yes to rest, patchy though and sold quickly The whole site crashed on me, non responsive Update : Live Sales suspended in Australia due to technical issues Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjrolympics Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 Live sales suspended everywhere... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobart Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 no track cycling but did get 2 cat C swim prelim and 1 cat C final. Also rowing, beach volly prelim, Ruby 7s only crashed on me once but thankfully it came up again with shopping basket still full so did a quick payment. I also went back and got 2 other ticket and it added it to my 1 shipping charge think for London every order had a new shipping charge of $47!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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