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In a recent article from the Seattle Times, officials insist these Games will be different and that ticket chicanery by insiders will be curbed. "I just can't personally accept that there's going to be fewer tickets available at face value to the public in this country because members of the Olympic Family are... getting those tickets and then scalping them," said Dave Cobb, VANOC's deputy CEO. The thriving black market for 2010 Winter Olympic tickets is a textbook case of supply and demand. Cobb threatens to take action if he discovers that insiders are reselling the bar-coded tickets on the black market. "We can cancel them all with one push of the button," Cobb said. VANOC's threat to void tickets — which may be held by fans who paid dearly for them and traveled thousands of miles — is seen by many in the ticket and travel industry as laughable. "It's always been a joke," said Don Dow, owner of a Medford, Ore., sports travel company. "They put threats out there and everyone in the event world says, 'Whatever.' " Coast2Coast Tickets, a Vancouver-based company, after boasting on two of its Web sites that it could guarantee tickets to the public, was sued by VANOC and the suit is pending in British Columbia Supreme Court as well as another Roadtrips, a small Winnipeg, Manitoba, firm that has been creating luxury travel tours for 17 years. Related Articles: Online ticket retailer Seatwave beats postal strike through HMV partnership Seatwave and UK music retailer, HMV, have joined up with Seatwave in launching an in-store music ticket box office. The partnership will allow customers to buy and sell tickets in HMV right up to the day of the event. Seatwave will also launch an online ticket exchange for HMV.
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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.
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