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Ticket prices for the Olympic Games cannot be set yet because of the "changing economy", London 2012's chief executive, Paul Deighton, has said. He also told the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee that organisers had already begun trying to calculate "precisely" how popular each sport would be to avoid unsold tickets and empty seats at venues.
"We would not want to go towards that degree of specificity two-and-a-half years out," he said. "I will reiterate today that when we talk you through our pricing strategy next year, we will be able to demonstrate to you that we will absolutely meet our commitment to making this highly affordable." Mr Deighton said a policy was being drawn up so unused or unwanted tickets were exchanged or possibly resold through the organisers to cut the risk of touting. "The law is very clear. They cannot be resold at a profit. We will be very clear about working with the police." About 9.2m tickets for the Games are due to go on sale in 2011. Mr Deighton predicted in 2005 that 4.3m of these would cost £20 or less. Read more at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8414316.stm Related Articles: Eventim Tickets are now also on MySpace! A deal between CTS Eventim AG, Europe's market leader in the
primary ticketing market and MySpace, the world's largest music platform will
now have MySpace's users able to buy tickets directly from the primary ticketing
company under http://www.myspace.com/ticketshop.
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.
French Football Federation to Try and Block Tickets To avoid a flood of Irish fans at the Stade de France, November 18, in the second leg of World Cup 2010 countdown, the French Football Federation (FFF) is banning the sale of tickets on the Internet. A measure that is easier said than done.
Mojo Concerts and 'Black Market' Secondary Tickets - Hypocrisy Rules the Day
by Richard Kastelein
OP/ED - "The seller defines the price at Ticket Trade, not Mojo Concerts," states the site. I guess that's why two tickets to Rammstein cost over €600 euro on Mojo Concerts aka Live Nation's 'Black Market', secondary ticketing site at Tickettrade. The hypocrisy of a... The Ticket Monopoly at Winter Olympics Vancouver 2010 Threats have emerged from Vancouver Organizing Committee
(VANOC) – the body organizing
the Winter Olympics in Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada, to block tickets that are filtering out to the
secondary ticket market via sponsors, family of athletes, national Olympic
committees
and... One Million World Cup Soccer Tickets Go on Sale Another one million 2010 World Cup tickets are available and Africans are encouraged to buy. This was the message at the launch of the third ticketing phase in Johannesburg yesterday.
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