As expected in Moscow

Still loads of GA tickets for sale in Moscow.

Accessible quantity of places: 6997

Stats

Some boring statistics for the GA ticket sales in Moscow. Hitting the refresh button over and over:

3216 @ 12.45
3198 @ 12.46
3189 @ 12.47
3185 @ 12.48
3180 @ 12.50
3177 @ 12.51
3168 @ 12.55
3158 @ 12.57
3155 @ 13.00
3138 @ 13.02
3131 @ 13.07
3135 @ 13.08
3119 @ 13.12
3109 @ 13.18
3101 @ 13.23
3093 @ 13.26
3079 @ 13.35
3064 @ 13.44
3046 @ 13.54
3043 @ 13.59
3049 @ 14.22
3028 @ 14.45
2998 @ 14.54

Ticket countdown

At 12.45 PM Swedish local time, this is the first time I've seen a website stating how many tickets are left for grabs. Quite unexpected for the Russian site.

Dancing in Moscow

Speaking of "Dancing sertificate" and "Fan Zone", they actually changed those texts to "Standing tickets" and "Red Zone". Today is the public sale and this is the info available on the website. Also, I'm starting to wonder why the sale hasn't started yet (it's 10.15 am in Moscow).

Moscow - green light

From my "partner in crime":

Good news! I got an email back from the ticket office that the order was o.k. and paid for. Tickets can be picked up from the main office in Moscow, I got the address and all I need is the order number and my credit card. I got the order number so everything is fine now. Pffff......

Fed up

Poor Lia, she's absolutely fed up with this, but "I guess it is the price of love, I know it's not cheap":

Well, I got an email back from the ticket office, telling me that they cancelled my previous orders and that I could buy tickets again with the presale code. So I did, got through, ordered 2 standing tickets, got through to the payment and got through to the confirmation site. I printed the confirmation straightaway so I got that in front of me now but when I logged in again on the site it said, you've got no orders. Before that I saw the cancelled orders but they are not there anymore now as well. But now I can not log in at all anymore....... I am sure I still got my password right but no..... I am getting really tired of this.
I will send them an email again as I got an order number on the print out to see if this time it did go o.k.

Ivan the Terrible

At 7 am (Swedish local time) this morning the presale for Moscow started.
My friend Lia has a horizon code that is intended for Moscow. I don't envy her. Looking at the website kassir.ru, it was poorly translated to English and I could barely understand how to get GA tickets. You would tell by the prices that "Fan sertificate" is "Red zone" and "Dancing sertificate" is GA. Dancing? Sertificate?

Unfortunately, the payment using a credit card didn't work out. Not even after trying two times. Looking at the payment summary, she has obviously ordered 4 tickets now. She never got a confirmation mail and no money has been drawn from her bank acccount. Quite scary. I hope she'll be able to sort things out today.

Also, the "certificated" you buy shall be changed into valid tickets in Moscow between August 21 and August 25. It's more or less the same story as for London 2009.

Lia's Horizon code is no longer valid meaning that we have absolutely no idea if we got tickets or not.


I guess this was very predictable. Lousy translation of the text to English and lousy routines for selling tickets on the Internet. Many questions, no answers.

Now, by lunch, they have changed the word "Dancing" to "Standing" on kassir.ru and also it's Certificate, not Sertificate.


To be continued...

Greecs from Holland

I really enjoy receiving registred mail, there's always something important in the envelope. Today, it's from my friend Lia in Holland. 3 GA tickets for Athens. One is for me and the other two are for a friend and her brother.