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Buying and Selling Vancouver 2010
Olympic Tickets And The Official Olympic 2010 Ticketing System
for Vancouver and Whistler Events
In a nutshell, the selling of Vancouver 2010
Olympic Tickets is managed and processed through VANOC, the official
Vancouver Olympic Committee. Through VANOC, you are able to place
orders and requests for 2010 Vancouver Tickets for sports events
and other Olympic 2010 Events such as the opening and closing
ceremonies at BC Place Stadium.
To make it fair for everyone looking to purchase Vancouver 2010
Tickets and other 2010 Olympic tickets for special events, VANOC
has deployed a lottery process to buy 2010 Vancouver tickets through
their online website. During this time, you can enter all of your
favourite sports events and other Olympic 2010 tickets you would
like to buy, and through a lottery system, you will hopefully
get the ones that you desire most. Of course, after the initial
release of Vancouver 2010 Olympic Tickets in the Fall of 2009
(in which all of the tickets were purchased), there is also a
healthy secondary ticketing market ongoing now where original
Vancouver 2010 ticket purchasers are now re-selling their event
tickets to visitors and the public. Although VANOC does not want
original Olympic 2010 Vancouver ticket holders to re-sell their
tickets, there is really no way of stopping them, and therefore
VANOC has issued a statement requesting that the ticket prices
should stay in check to make it affordable to everyone. Even Showtime
Tickets can help you re-sell your pre-purchased Vancouver 2010
tickets online, so there is definitely supply and demand going
on for these prized possessions for the Winter Olympic Games.
The three most popular 2010 Tickets will include the Men’s
Hockey Gold Medal Game Tickets in addition to the Opening and
Closing Ceremonies in Vancouver.
Lottery process of buying 2010 Winter Olympic
Tickets
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic tickets is the hot item that
everyone in the world will be talking about over the next year.
February 2010 will be the date for the 2010 Winter Olympics being
held in Vancouver BC and Whistler BC. The Winter 2010 events are
already all sold out due to the 2010 ticketing process and buying
2010 tickets is not easy. With popular 2010 Olympic events such
as Men’s and Women’s Ice Hockey, Figure Skating, Downhill
Skiing, and Ski jump, this will be a high demand and limited supply
situation. VANOC or the Olympic organizing committee for Vancouver
has organized the sale of all tickets using a lottery process.
In order to purchase 2010 Winter Olympic tickets you need to sign
up on the official website www.vancouver2010.com if you are in
Canada or the other official 2010 Olympic sites if you are in
another country. The website provides potential spectators and
their families the chance to put in their 2010 ticket requests
for any of the available events. The lottery process is supposed
to be fair and provide everyone who wants to watch the Winter
Olympics ‘live’ a equal opportunity chance to purchase
a ticket. During the lottery period, all tickets requests will
be collected from spectators and available to be drawn in the
lottery. Once the lottery period date is closed then there will
be a draw for 2010 tickets for people who are interested in buying.
If you are one of the lucky few who are drawn in the lottery process
then you will be given the chance to buy all the 2010 tickets
that you requested.
Buying Vancouver 2010 Olympic Tickets through
Winter Games Ticketing
Besides the lottery process what other methods are available to
buy Vancouver Olympic 2010 tickets? The lottery process was really
the first chance for people around the world to buy direct from
the Olympic committee and provided everyone an equal opportunity
chance to buy Olympic 2010 tickets. However due to limited supply
of Olympic 2010 tickets, not everyone who submitted a ticket request
will be able to buy their desired events. In fact, most of the
events will be oversold meaning that the lottery process will
award tickets to a select few. Since the initial lottery process
is already over and people around the world have been given their
first chance to buy Olympic 2010 tickets, there is now a healthy
secondary market for the different events. A secondary market
on the Internet has always existed for the other Olympics in the
past and the current 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver is no different.
Websites in Canada, US, Europe, Australia, and Asia have already
been posting all the available events including the Opening Ceremonies,
Closing Ceremonies, and Gold Medal Men’s Hockey. Buying
Olympic 2010 tickets in the secondary market, however, can be
expensive and you should be careful who you are purchasing the
tickets from. The official site for selling 2010 Olympic tickets
is not yet available and VANOC has already said that it is illegal
for anyone to sell their current tickets for a price higher than
the face value of the ticket. This however has not deterred popular
events such as the Opening Ceremonies and Men’s Gold Medal
Hockey from being offered at 5 to 10 times their face value. While
buying from a official Olympic sponsor may be less risky, buying
from an unofficial sponsor or one of the sites such as Craigslist
can be quite risky. If you purchase an Olympic 2010 ticket that
is not valid then you will not have any recourse with getting
your money back.
Selling Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Tickets
So how would you go about selling your Vancouver 2010 tickets
and possibly make a small profit? VANOC encourages everyone to
be reasonable and their existing tickets should really be purchased
for their own consumption. Of course things happen and guests
who were supposed to arrive are not able to make it. It is possible
to resell your Vancouver 2010 tickets using the official Olympic
sponsored website at face value. The organizing committee will
be operating the reseller website closer to the beginning of the
games or at the end of 2009. Currently you can go to websites
such as Showtime Tickets or Cosport. Both these sites offer the
sale of tickets with hospitality packages. The price of the tickets
are actually co-mingled with the accommodation in Cosport website.
The Showtime Tickets allow you to instantly sell your Vancouver
2010 tickets at a discount from market rate or list on their site
at your desired sales price. This is still an early stage to offer
your Vancouver 2010 tickets for sale and many spectators will
be unwilling to pay high prices for resale Vancouver 2010 tickets.
Get Your Vancouver 2010 Tickets – Great
Olympic 2010 Tickets for Awesome Events Still Available!
According to 24Hours Vancouver newspaper, more Vancouver 2010
Olympic Tickets will be released on June 6th, 2009. Mark June
6th on your calendar as that’s when more of the Winter Olympics
2010 Tickets will be released for sale by VANOC. VANOC CEO John
Furlong said that five thousand performers have applied for the
opening and closing ceremony auditions, the greatest single event
ever held in the City of Vancouver. He said that discussions were
ongoing about the awards medals Whistler Celebration Plaza Plans
during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games. The final August 25-26
Coordination Commission checkup will include execs of international
winter sports federations. The opening of the second Vancouver
Olympic 2010 ticekting phase was revealed at a news conferred
in April 2009 after the eight visit of the international Olympic
Committee’s coordination commission. VANOC has sold $94.7
million of Vancouver 2010 Tickets for Olympic Winter Games last
fall just in Canada, but the quantity of the Vancouver Olympic
2010 Tickets sold has actually not been released to the public.
Ticketing at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Tickets is of minor concern
to the coordination commission charman, Fasel, with almost 10
months remaining until the February 12th, 2010 opening ceremony
in Vancouver. Therefore, more focus and attention has been placed
on coordinating transportation plans and securing workforce accommodation
for the Olympic Winter Games. Clearly, the Vancouver Olympic 2010
Tickets have not been of priority or concern as they were snatched
up by thousands of Canadians in the Fall of 2009. The Quarterly
Report from the 24 Hours Vancouver Magazine: Money Perks for Olympic
2010 Ticket Buyers. Tourism BC employees got a money saving perk
if they successfully ordered Vancouver 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic
tickets. Freedom of Information documents obtained by 24Hours
show the provincial BC Crown corporation offered interest free,
six month loans of five hundred to four thousand dollars to Tourism
British Columbia employees who showed proof of purchase for Olympic
2010 Tickets. Repayment via payroll deductions began in January
2009. 24 Hours wanted to interview BC Tourism Minister, Bill Bennett,
but he was out of the office until later this week. Staff was
reminded of the Vancouver 2010 Ticket money perks in an email
incentive on November 5th from Tourism BC VP of human resources
development Rose and again on December 18, 2008 by controller
for BC Tourism, Rick. Moss did not return a phone call and Nelson
declined to comment. The program for the perks for the Vancouver
2010 Tickets was announced before the October 3rd to November
7th public Vancouver Olympic 2010 Ticket phase.
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