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Tickets - VANOC Files Lawsuit Against Roadtrips Re-Sellers
With the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games
fast approaching and VANOC continuing to release its phased release
of Vancouver 2010 tickets online through it's lottery program,
the topic of re-selling Whistler and Vancouver Olympic tickets
has been in hot debate. VANOC has officially filed a lawsuit against
Winnipeg based Roadtrips over re-selling 2010 tickets at higher
than purchased value. In addition, VANOC has claimed that only
Tickets.com and Jet Set Sports are the only official 2010 Olympic
ticket resellers in Canada.
VANOC Sues Roadtrips Olympic 2010 Ticket Company
– Explains that Only Jet Set Sports and Tickets.com Are
Only Authorized Canadian Vancouver 2010 Olympic Ticket Agents
According to 24 Hours magazine in Vancouver, VANOC’s latest
legal target is a Winnipeg company called Roadtrips that is offering
Vancouver 2010 Olympic tickets to tourists, travelers, locals
and visitors. Roadtrips Winnipeg based company and its president
are named in a May 11, 2009 lawsuit filed by VANOC in BC Supreme
Court and the organizing committee is seeking an injunction to
ban Roadtrips from buying or selling Vancouver Whistler 2010 tickets.
In addition, VANOC wants a judge to order Roadtrips 2010 Olympic
ticketing office to relinquish its Vancouver 2010 tickets and
provide a list of customers who purchased the Whistler Vancouver
Olympic tickets. According to VANOC, only Jet Set Sports and Tickets.com
are authorized Canadian Olympic ticket agents. Resale, except
via VANOC is prohibited by VANOC and it is clearly stated across
all mediums. Roadtrips has not filed a statement of defense as
of yet and they have not returned any calls or emails from 24
Hours to discuss this mater. In the VANOC lawsuit against Roadtrips,
VANOC has repeatedly asked both Roadtrips and its president to
cease its activities in selling Vancouver 2010 tickets for the
Winter Games since March 2008. In addition, the lawsuit claims
that Roadtrips charged overly aggressive fees for all Olympic
Vancouver 2010 tickets sold. There is also a substantial risk
that Roadtrips will not be able to deliver on these 2010 tickets,
which is exactly what happened with ticket purchasers for the
2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremonies. In that case, on December
30, 2008, a Texas judge dismissed against Roadtrips because the
plaintiffs received refunds.
According to Roadtrips Winnipeg President, VANOC
Is A 2010 Ticket Monopoly
The response to yesterday’s article regarding the lawsuit
against Winnipeg based Roadtrips for re-selling Vancouver 2010
tickets for Olympic events was published in 24 Hours and written
by Bob again, the official and best source for the latest on the
VANOC Roadtrips ticketing scandal. The present of this Winnipeg
travel company, called Roadtrips, said that VANOC targeted them
at the B.C. Supreme Court Level but in actual reality, VANOC has
monopolized the sales of all 2010 Winter Olympics tickets. Roadtrip’s
Dave G, the president, said through an email correspondence that
the lawsuit is an ‘ill conceived attempt to defame our corporate
reputation based solely on the fact that Roadtrips disagrees that
VANOC has the right to limit the secondary distribution of tickets
[for the Vancouver Whistler 2010 Olympic Winter Games]’.
Dave said that the Roadtrip’s statement of defence against
the 2010 Ticketing lawsuit by VANOC is currently being developed
by their lawyers. The Vancouver Game’s VANOC organizing
committee filed a May 11, 2009 statement of claim seeking a court
order banning Roadtrips from buying and selling Vancouver 2010
Olympic tickets. Also in this claim was the inventory seizure
of all remaining unsold 2010 Vancouver tickets as well, thereby
paralyzing the operation that is deemed illegal in VANOC’s
eyes. The court filing includes the VANOC 2010 ticket license
agreement which says that VANOC at all times is the sole and exclusive
owner of all Olympic 2010 Vancouver tickets and has the power
to seize as well as control and cancel (without any refund), any
2010 tickets offered for higher than face value at the time of
purchase through the VANOC online ticketing process. There are
only two authorized re-sellers of 2010 Tickets that includes Tickets.com
and Jet Set Sports in Canada. Tickets.com lists e-Bay owned online
ticket broker StubHub as a partner and Stubhub corporate communications
head Sean, said ‘the partnership does not include the Vancouver
2010 Olympics and StubHub has no relationship with the organizing
committee.” Reselling Vancouver 2010 tickets is not illegal
in B.C however. VANOC chief legal officer Ken held talkws with
the BC Government regarding anti scalping legislation in the wake
of the Roadtrips 2010 Vancouver ticketing fiasco. This was done
back in October 15, 2008 by Games Operations Stearing Team meeting
obtained under Freedom of Information, but no resolution has come
up yet.
ICBC Buys Over 2,000 Vancouver 2010 Tickets
According to 24Hours Vancouver, ICBC, the provincial BC auto insurer
has purchased over two thousand 2010 Vancouver tickets to the
2010 Winter Games. These Vancouver Olympic Tickets of 2,034 in
number has cost $389,940 according to documents released in May
2009. According to 24 Hours, the driver of such information disclosure,
the Crown corporation, ICBC, withheld it’s 2010 ticketing
number purchased until 24 Hours appealed to the Office of the
Information and Privacy Commissioner. Once released, the newspaper
was able to obtain the staggering number of Vancouver 2010 Olympic
tickets that ICBC had purchased. The last page of the Specialy
Client Request Detail shows that ICBC auto insurance spent $126,560
for 582 2010 hockey tickets and $100,000 for 160 Vancouver 2010
opening and closing ceremony tickets. ICBC spokesman Mark said
that CEO Jon was unavailable for an interview. Jan also reported
that ICBC spent about $108,000 on Vancouver Winter Games time
2010 accommodation for out of town business partners of ICBC.
BC Hydro also responded t the Office of the Information and Privacy
Commissioner request by 24 Hours and disclosed that it had bought
1,280 Vancouver 2010 Olympic tickets for $301,510. Included in
the BC Hydro 2010 Vancouver ticket purchase included 160 2010
opening and closing ceremony tickets for $112,500 in addition
to 310 Vancouver 2010 hockey tickets at $66,640.
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