Equestrian tickets - Official 2012 - Keep Looking!

Yes, but when you go to buy them this message (in perfect English :p) appears:

We don't have enought places for quantity asked.

And that was for 1 ticket!
 
Cant actually believe it but just got 2 tickets for the show jumping!!!! Can’t even begin to say how pleased my daughter will be!!! Keep trying guys they are still getting posted :)
 
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Lynnie1 said:
Cant actually believe it but just got 2 tickets for the show jumping!!!! Can’t even begin to say how pleased my daughter will be!!! Keep trying guys they are still getting posted :)
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Thrilled for you. That's wonderful news :D:D (Btw, which session?)

Everyone else....keep looking! They do go very quickly - you have to be online as soon as they pop up.
 
KingfisherBlue - They are for the first round of the team jumping on the 5th August. At last I can stop my obsessive checking of the web site!!
 
Dollysox said:
So frustrating - I keep trying and it doesn't matter what I do, every time they show tickets available and I try to get one the search keeps coming up with Not Available. Just now tried to get SJ tickets as showing as available and it won't even let me buy one!
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I know how frustrating it can be. The software sometimes takes a long time to recalibrate the tickets to 'zero' - hence the tickets seem to be there but aren't :( I experienced that too before I finally got tickets for all four days of the Eventing and also the team 'pure' show-jumping final.

There were times, when I was trying to get tickets (all bought late June and July this year), that I was almost in tears with frustration....other times the air was blue with expletives! Even when I felt sure I had bagged a ticket, my heart-rate went sky-high during the payment process. (I just couldn't believe I had a ticket until I saw it confirmed in my account!)

Dollysox said:
I've got tickets to the Team Dressage final but my horse-mad niece is desperate to go to anything and her dad has tried over 50 different times with no success whatsoever. Just very, very frustrating and disappointing.
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Do keep trying. There were some equestrian tickets online early this morning (see the message above by Lynnie1). Sometimes they go up very early, sometimes lunchtime/mid afternoon. There is no set pattern.

Don't give up.....you'd be surprised just how many tickets do come up. If your niece wants to go to ANY of the equestrian session, then I think you have a good chance of getting something.

Good luck! :)
 
Lynnie1 said:
KingfisherBlue - They are for the first round of the team jumping on the 5th August. At last I can stop my obsessive checking of the web site!!
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I sooo understand about the obsessive checking of the website. My OH thought I was completely crazy because of the hours I spent staring at the screen, hitting F5 :eek:
 
Just heard from a friend (not on this forum), who reliably informs me that there were quite a few Equestrian tickets online early this morning, including XC day and a dressage day of the eventing and an expensive ticket for the pure dressage Freestyle session, plus some pure SJ ones.

I'm posting this to reassure you that tickets are STILL coming up on an almost daily basis. Could even be a daily basis, who knows? I say that because they come up and disappear so quickly....as we all know so well!
 
Hi peeps

There were tickets earlier today for the pure dressage freestyle on 9th Aug (£275), and they sold out fast, despite the big price tag :eek:

There were also some eventing dressage and pure team dressage tickets up. This £150 (gulp), category still seems to be there, but could easily be sold....do not get your hopes up...been up a while.

I only just saw the listings, or would have posted this earlier. Again though, goes to show that if you keep looking everyday, something may pop up.

To paintedponies:Keep checking the offical 2012 site - there's still time for the XC tickets to appear.
 
painted ponies - For XC try buying one ticket at a time then add more to your basket before you finalise the purchase as I assume you can move around freely as is the norm for eventing spectators. Seems that they are getting lots individual tickets relisted and not so many multiple ones if that makes sense. Good luck :)
 
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painted ponies - For XC try buying one ticket at a time then add more to your basket before you finalise the purchase as I assume you can move around freely as is the norm for eventing spectators. Seems that they are getting lots individual tickets relisted and not so many multiple ones if that makes sense. Good luck :)
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That is a great piece of advice. When it came to getting XC tickets for myself and my OH, I made two separate purchases (on different days) because there was only 1 available on my first try! Of course, the first one was for me (haha!), and I was anxious about another one turning up...but it did.

The only down side to this was two lots of postage, which was a bit tedious, but hey-ho.....RESULT! :)
 
JUST UP - XC TICKETS! BE QUICK :)

http://www.tickets.london2012.com/eventdetails?id=0000455ACCCB0ACF

All other eventing days too...

....plus pure SJ on 6th Aug. some good prices! (Eventing dressage day 2 all price categories, including £20 and eventing SJ finale day at £55!

If there are any success stories in buying tickets today, let us know, as it gives hope to anyone else still trying. It can seem like a hopeless task sometimes
 
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I always seem to spot it just 5 mins too late :( How do you spot them on time, or is it just persistence? I am being persistent, just not super lucky.
 
smashed said:
I always seem to spot it just 5 mins too late :( How do you spot them on time, or is it just persistence? I am being persistent, just not super lucky.
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Hi

Luck does play a part, but sometimes the tickets can go to the orange 'Select' button more quickly in some searches than others.

In some ways it's not always logical. For example, you might search for all days of Eventing and check the 'show available sessions only' option, but actually see nothing but 'not available' dates for the eventing.

HOWEVER, if you did a general search for everything that's on at Greenwich (also checking the 'show available sessions only' option, the new tickets CAN and DO show up. Ultimately, what that means is that if you only search using one parameter, other people may get to see available tickets before you do. Trust me on this one....I've spent countless hours on the official site. I've also been 'pipped at the post' similar to yourself because by the time the orange 'Select' button showed up on my searches, the tickets had already gone. All it needs is a few minutes. I know how frustrating it is.

What I ended up doing is having two browsers open, with one (for example) for 'show me available sessions only' for the eventing, and also one for show me all etc., but for ALL Greenwich events for all dates. Very often a ticket would show up in the latter category minutes BEFORE it showed up in the specific eventing (or whatever) category.

Sorry for the ramble and hope it makes sense.....I did say at the start that the search system does not seem entirely logical.

Keep trying! :)
 
Thanks for the tip Kingfisher, just got a ticket for the eventing sj final:D:D:D Will be "billy no mates" as it's a single ticket, but I don't care! Just need to work out how to get there now...
 
Sunset1 said:
Thanks for the tip Kingfisher, just got a ticket for the eventing sj final:D:D:D Will be "billy no mates" as it's a single ticket, but I don't care! Just need to work out how to get there now...
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Fantastic! Well done :D

Btw, that category is now unavailable, so you were very quick :)
 
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I bought xc tickets in the early hours of Saturday, but once I'd purchased realised I had only selected one child ticket intstead of two. Rang the ticket line and I couldn't amend it so have had to offer them back for resale as I can't take one child and not the other :-(. waiting for them to come up again so I can hopefully get tickets for all 3 of us. You can't buy a child ticket on its own so I couldn't keep the two and buy another unfortunately.:mad:
 
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I have had 2 meetings today. Come back both times to find I missed it by 5 minutes. Then I come on here and find that Kingfisher posted them  But that probably is what killed my chances lol. Thanks ;o)
 
Damn, I am looking for 1 adult and 1 child ticket for xc, saw some come up, but by the time I had re-logged in to reserve them they had gone!!! It made me re-enter all my password details as it had timed out.
 
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