London: London 2012 Olympic Games ticket holders now will have the chance to resell their tickets on Friday, January 6.
A ticket resale website, Viagogo, has estimated that 1m of the 6.6m tickets available to the public could be recycled through the resale platform operated by organisers, but others believe the numbers will be far lower.
Those with tickets they no longer want for whatever reason can sell their tickets back to London 2012 until February 3, and there will be further opportunities in the spring to take part in the resale programme.
A ticketing account at LONDON2012 is where those with tickets must go to sell them back to London 2012.
If a buyer can be found, the ticket holder will be reimbursed for the face value of the ticket.
But given the huge demand for tickets, with 22m applications for 3m tickets in the opening round and only football tickets still available until the final batch of 1.2m ticket sales in April, Locog expects most people who can’t use their tickets to pass them to friends or family instead.
Paul Deighton, the London 2012 chief executive, said: ‘We asked people to buy tickets more than a year out from the Games and mindful of that, we promised that we would create this system for people whose circumstances may have changed to enable them to resale their tickets legally and safely.
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