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| Vancouver Olympics close to launching authorized ticket resale Web site for 2010 Winter Games |
Nearly five months after news of the resale Web site broke, the Vancouver Olympic Committee (VANOC) finally appears close to launching their own ticket resale site for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. The resale site is part of VANOC’s best effort to avoid alleged fraudulent reselling associated with messy ticketing problems at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, as well as trying to avoid the possibility of empty seats at game venues. Also in place: stipulations forbidding executives of the Winter Games from reselling their tickets, with a promise that all such resold tickets will end up being invalidated.In addition, VANOC has made it clear that all tickets for the 2010 Games bought through unauthorized resellers also risk invalidation. Earlier this year, the Committee’s concerns about unauthorized resales even led them to initiate lawsuits against two Canadian ticket brokers, Coast 2 Coast Tickets and Roadtrips, for alleged sales of unauthorized tickets.
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