Money for Olympic tickets has started to be withdrawn from some accounts People who applied for tickets for the London 2012 Olympic Games are being reminded payments are being taken from their accounts from Monday.
A London 2012 spokesman said: “People should make sure they have sufficient funds available from this date.”
About 1.8 million people made more than 20 million applications for the 6.6 million tickets during the six-week process, which ended on 26 April.
Successful bidders will be notified of the tickets they have won by 24 June.
This will mean that in some cases, money will be taken out of people’s accounts before they know which tickets they have been able to buy.
Refunds are not available but London 2012 will launch its official resale platform early next year, through which people can offer their tickets for resale at face value – although there is no guarantee they will be bought.
EBay, the internet auction site, has said it will not allow the resale of Olympic tickets.
Any tickets unsold by organisers are expected to be made available in further ballots, along with the possibility of additional tickets for higher-profile events being released as venues are tested and capacities finalised.
The opening and closing ceremonies were expected to be massively over-subscribed, as well as big athletics events, swimming nights, track cycling and some of the cheaper tickets.
Many people applied for several events, hoping to boost their chances of getting tickets.
Standard prices range from £20 to £2,012 – the top ticket for the opening ceremony – and oversubscribed events will be decided by a ballot.
Ticket allocation is completely random, so some unlucky applicants might end up without any, while others may be allocated all the tickets they applied for.
A further two million tickets for the Paralympic Games go on sale on 9 September.
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