The official London 2012 ticket resale site, which went offline for a whopping 12 days after failing on its launch day, is back up and running. Initially the site simply failed to work with users reporting difficulties in uploading tickets to the exchange to sell, whilst buyers discovered at checkout that their selected tickets were no longer available. On January 17th Ticketmaster finally got the site up and running again but it now seems to be just a refund site, not the face value swap site originally planned by games organiser LOCOG. The site will now just buy back tickets at face value in the next two and a half weeks until February 3rd. Re-sale of Olympic tickets outside of the official system and windows is illegal in the UK. The London 2012 ticket sales have been beset with a number of problems, not least when tickets sales were restricted to Visa debit and credit cards only (the official credit card sponsor) and a large number of Visa cards were rejected and sales cancelled because of approaching expiry dates. In December it transpired tickets for the synchronised swimming dates had been oversold. Any returned tickets and a final batch of 1.3 million tickets will be put on sale in April and Olympic football and Paralympic tickets remain on sale until 6th February.
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