Thursday, May 17, 2012

Olympic disappointment

Well, it looks like I'll be watching the Olympics from home, on the telly.  What an epic disappointment.  I tried to buy tickets in the 'pre-sale' this week, but my efforts were frustrated by work (I had meetings at 11am every day, which is when they released the new tickets), and the web site was set up so poorly that if you weren't able to reserve tickets to your first choice, it took five minutes to make a second choice, by which time those were all gone as well.  Naturally, game theory suggests I should have gone for a second-tier choice instead of fighting it out for the prime seats, but I didn't, and I failed.

I could have bought tickets for £295 each (or closing ceremony tickets for $655 each), but that's just crazy.

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