London Olympic Tickets

[bhlloy]

Hoping maybe somebody has read something or one of the UK contingent can help me out here... I had applied for (using my dad's address and information as a UK resident) well over $4500 (2700 pounds) of tickets for the Olympics and today they took out a grand total of *drumroll* $208 from my account

Everything I've read suggests they take it out in one go and I'm screwed, but wondering if maybe they are taking it out event by event or in installments instead? Anyone read anything to the contrary or for the UK guys, apply and see something different?

I'll be damned if I'm flying over at the most expensive time of the year just to get tickets to a couple of events, so right now I'm resigned to not going at all. This entire process is a complete fustercluck but that's a whole other story and to go into that I'd probably have blood pressure issues

[Ryan S]

I think that they take payment in one shot. There was concern about how it might affect some of the people who have applied for upwards of £30k worth of tickets.

[Critch]

There's a second round draw in June for people who were unsuccessful in round one.

I'm not sure if it's done on an event by event level of unsuccessfulness, or your $208 worth of tickets for the Womans Synchronized Swimming Qualifying rounds will mark you as successful and bar you from round two.

[bhlloy]

Yeah, I'm not sure either but the tickets for those events are only going to be the ones that didn't sell out - i.e. the crappy ones that nobody wants.

Ryan - that's what everything I read seems to point to as well but I haven't read anything definitive. Oh well.

Thanks guys.