Anyone Got The Ticket Already?

[Faster]

OK - based on BOCOG availability -

August 10th - Men’s Water Polo Preliminaries - limited availability (B reserve only)

August 12th - Women’s Softball Preliminaries - some availability

August 11th – Men’s and Women’s Rowing Heats - some availability

August 13th – Men’s Field Hockey Preliminaries - some availability

August 14th – Men’s Handball Preliminaries - some availability

August 13th – Men’s and Women’s Heats - what sport?

August 14th – Men’s Baseball Preliminaries - lots of tickets

August 10th – Men’s Fencing Preliminaries - very limited availability

August 11th – Men’s Beach Volleyball Preliminaries - some availability

August 12th – Men’s and Women’s Judo Preliminaries - very limited availability

However I'd expect OK availability through CoSport - except maybe the rowing, beach volleyball.

canoe/kayaking slalom

[thatsnotmypuppy]

canoe/kayaking slalom

You shouldn't have a problem with those ones - I'll see you there! The whitewater kayak/canoe is my 100% Olympic favourite event. I'm trying to get tickets today (tomorrow?) for the other sessions.

[Faster]

I didn't know you were into Hungarian interests, since it seems that its the only flag there.

[Faster]

Now that it is past midnight, I now think the sales will be at 10:00am EST, so 2:00am Sydney time.

[thatsnotmypuppy]

I must say I am somewhat eager to get in and fill in the Olympic ticket gaps - however I think the urgency is unfounded. If it is first come first serve per each countries allocation, you can be assured the tickets will be all over the shop. I expect a massive rush for any left over swimming and ceremony tickets - which there will be very few. Myself and Faster should be OK as we are going for second tier events.

My wishlist is -

Sunday August 10

MORNING

09:30-13:10

Water Polo (Ying Tung Natatorium) $11/$7

Monday August 11

MORNING

09:00-12:15

Handball (Olympic Green Gymnasium) $11/$7

Or

09:00–14:50

Beach Volleyball (Chaoyang Park Beach Volleyball Ground) $22/$11

Or

10:00-14:00

Weightlifting (Beijing University) $11/$7

AFTERNOON

13:30-16:30

Boxing (Worker’s Gymnasium) $17/$7

Or

15:00-18:42

Canoe/Kayak Slalom (Shunyi Olympic Rowing Park) $7

NIGHT

19:00-22:00

Boxing (Worker’s Gymnasium) $17/$7

Or

18:30-22:30

Hockey (Olympic Green Hockey Centre) $11/$7

Tuesday August 12

MORNING

09:00-13:00

Basketball (Wukesong Indoor Stadium) $32/$22/$11

Or

09:30-13:00

Greco Roman Wrestling (China Agricultural University Gymnasium) $22/$11

Need to get 1 extra ticket to Canoe Kayak $22

Friday August 15

EVENING

18:00-21:00

Football (Tianjin Olympic Stadium) $75/$43/$32

Saturday August 16

MORNING

09:00-13:10

Athletics (Olympic Stadium) $42/$22/$11

AFTERNOON/EVENING

13:30-16:30

Boxing (Worker’s Gymnasium) $17/$7

Or

16:30-19:65

Track Cycling (Laoshan Velodrome) $22

Or

18:00-21:00

Football (Worker’s Stadium) $75/$43/$32

Sunday August 17

MORNING

10:00-11:45

Track Cycling (Laoshan Velodrome) $11

Sunday August 17

MORNING

09:00-11:58

Athletics (Olympic Stadium) $43/$22/$11

The first Monday is the main concern as I have no tickets for that day. If I luck out I'll pop into one of the cultural installations or just stack up on the merchandise. The rest are "maybe I'll be in town" kind of deals.

[alberto]

hi desmond chang, we met in Singapur two years ago!!!

i have got hte tickets already, for hte olympic stadium and for some other sports like football or taekwondo...

hope to see u next year there!

alberto

[COMMENTATOR]

Dearest Alberto,

hello! This is Colin here, do you still remember me? I met you with Desmond Chan in Singapore 2 years ago! I want to go next year to Beijing 2008 so see you there next year! Where have you been all this while? All the best to you and keep in contact! So glad to hear from you again!

[NOC]

I can not see BOCOG releasing tickets domestically when they can not get their international orders in line. There would be too much of a problem from the Agents.

From what I am being informed many Olympic Committees and IOC members are VERY upset with BOCOG about their ticketing failure. One contact also told me off the cuff that they could not even get tickets for a head of states side-kicks and that BOCOG would not issue any further swimming, Ceremony tickets and also Gymnastics and Diving.

If BOCOG released more tickets next year in the boc office, it would make the Olympic Committies and IOC members even more frustrated and angry with BOCOG. I think these games are very different to previous Games and everything that was done in the past is out the window for Beijing.

[Chateau Petrus]

I try to call Cosport to know exactelly at what time the sale start.

The line is always busy.

[Scientifik]

I try to call Cosport to know exactelly at what time the sale start.

The line is always busy.

How does the live sales work? Do you call in is it over the internet? I've been trying to call for the last 30 minutes straight and its non stop busy, I'm sure there's quite a bit of demand but I'd be really bothered to find out all the tickets had been snatched up by ticket brokers flooding the lines and buying up everything.

[DesmondChan]

hi desmond chang, we met in Singapur two years ago!!!

i have got hte tickets already, for hte olympic stadium and for some other sports like football or taekwondo...

hope to see u next year there!

alberto

Hi Alberto,

Long time didn't get any news from you. Which part on earth are you right now? I also just get the tickets, but only from ping pong events. It is enough! Hopefully can get more tickets... See you in Beijing!

p/s: You must contact me and Commentator before that, else we do not know how to find you... ha!

[la2stl]

anyone have a new prediction as to when live sales will begin?

[Swoosher]

anyone have a new prediction as to when live sales will begin?

Well nothing has been on time yet - so I predict Wednesday

But lets hope not. I think most of the tickets I need will be not hguely popular so should be ok. Of course I would love some Swimming but realisticly that will not happen.

[Chateau Petrus]

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[Faster]

So when are they going on sale, since they still don't appear on the site?

[Chateau Petrus]

Few minutes ago, I was able to login in the live sale if I clicked United States (but was not able if I choose Canada)

System was extremelly slow.

Now, I'm not able to go anymore.

Edited November 26, 2007 by Chateau Petrus

[Chateau Petrus]

I login at 12h30 (under Canada resident)

No luck for me.

No Rowing Final, No Cycling Track and no Diving.

I checked for a lot of others sports, and it seems that there's not a lot of availability.

I lost a day at work for absolutelly nothing.

[Scientifik]

A 45 minute time limit on buying tickets and the website is basically non responsive, even if you find a ticket you won't be able to quickly find a few others and piece together a decent group of events to see.

Good job Cosport. Way to bring online sales into 1997.

[curiousgeorge]

hi!

new to the forum--found it while trying to find out info about the cosport sale today. i was too late for the ticket request phase, and was hoping to get some equestrian tickets during the sale today, but no luck--spent the last 2 hours trying. very bummed. so wanted to ask if anyone has any advice/suggestions. i'm planning to be beijing starting in july (as a student/intern), so hoping i might be able to find a way to get tickets when i'm there? or else pay an exorbitant amount to a scalper?--which i don't want to do and don't know if i have the money too either. anyway, any ideas/suggestions would be much appreciated...

thanks!

[thatsnotmypuppy]

Well that was pointless. I had 12 sessions in my cart, went to purchase and then my cart was empty. Soooooooooo I go back and everything I had now shows as 'sold out'. Looks like I'll get my extra tickets in Beijing without the f*cking 'fulfillment fee' because that was just plain bullshit.

Edited November 26, 2007 by thatsnotmypuppy

[Scientifik]

Well that was pointless. I had 12 sessions in my cart, went to purchase and then my cart was empty. Soooooooooo I go back and everything I had now shows as 'sold out'. Looks like I'll get my extra tickets in Beijing without the f*cking 'fulfillment fee' because that was just plain bullshit.

12 sessions, on top of tickets you got from phase one? Consider yourself fortunate, there are those without any.

[thatsnotmypuppy]

All I got was the original phase 1 allotment - I couldn't purchase any tickets today as the system deleted everything in my cart.

I do consider myself fortunate - however anyone could have got tickets in Phase 1 (admittedly probably not to that many events) if they were organised at the time - so there is no need anyone else to play the 'woe is me' card either.

I am frustrated - but it's not the end of the world. I'll get what I can in Beijing.

[Faster]

All I got was the original phase 1 allotment - I couldn't purchase any tickets today as the system deleted everything in my cart.

I do consider myself fortunate - however anyone could have got tickets in Phase 1 (admittedly probably not to that many events) if they were organised at the time - so there is no need anyone else to play the 'woe is me' card either.

I am frustrated - but it's not the end of the world. I'll get what I can in Beijing.

I guess Australians are more interested in the olympics, because there is still tonnes of b level events on cosport Canada.

CP got 70+ tickets, so it can be done, it just depends on what you want.

I ran into one of my old teachers on the weekend and he is planning on going to Beijing, he applied for every single final swimming session and got 6/10, plus 4 gymnastics tickets, 2 diving, both rowing finals and a ceremonies ticket, so he was really lucky.

[curiousgeorge]

just fyi, it seems like tickets are still available on the cosport site despite it seeming quite the opposite an hour or so ago -- i was looking at all of the equestrian events, and all of them were showing as sold out, but kept refreshing the page and then 3 of them changed to available and i was able to get tickets! not the exact events that i wanted, but now i have tickets!

thanks Scientifik!

[thatsnotmypuppy]

Well Australia's allotment was meant to be 23,000 tickets across all events - hot rumour is we got less than a fifth of that. I'll try again tomorrow and see what is left.