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Lia's Horizon code is no longer valid meaning that we have absolutely no idea if we got tickets or not.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