Fans of the 2010 Winter Games now have even more options through vancouver2010.com/tickets. Please also visit our “Olympic Tickets” community page where you can post your ticket requests or trade options live online.
1) Fan-to-fan marketplace
The fan-to-fan marketplace is the most secure way to buy tickets from other fans or legitimately sell your Vancouver 2010 tickets.
Sellers:
Step 1) Sign in to your ticketing account
Step 2) Click on the My Tickets tab to view the tickets in your account.
Step 3) Select the seats you want to sell and follow the steps to post your tickets!
Buyers:
Step 1) Register or sign in to your ticketing account
Step 2) Search for the sport or ceremony you want to see.
Step 3) Check out your options! Select the seat locations that suit you and buy your tickets online. Don’t see what you’re looking for? Tickets are posted by other fans, check back often as postings will change and new tickets will be added.
Fan-to-fan marketplace FAQ’s >>
2) Vancouver 2010 Ticket Auction
A limited number of seats offering the best view or experience in the house at high-demand sport and ceremony events are now available to by auction and new packages will be posted every week at vancouver2010.com/tickets.
View live auctions >>
3) Donate your tickets
Account holders who find they can no longer use their tickets are encouraged to consider donating them to the Celebrate 2010 program. Through this program VANOC is working with community partners to distribute donated tickets to families and children with limited means who might not otherwise have the chance to experience the 2010 Winter Games. Tickets can be easily donated through your online ticketing account.
4) Single event luxury suites at Canada Hockey Place
Single event luxury suites at Canada Hockey Place are now available for select ice hockey sessions. Request deadline: December 31, 2009. Click here for more information, or e-mail ticketsales@vancouver2010.com. Any suites remaining after the deadline will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.
Thank you for your support of the 2010 Winter Games.
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Now that Olympic tickets are arriving in the mail there is a noticable spike in craigslist postings. From our previous blog post on Sept 14th there were only 46 listings in the last days; compared with one day of postings today, there were over 106 craigslist ads, mostly for Men’s hockey. The market has officially opened up. As expected prices are high this early in the game and people are selling the “Christmas Present Market” as well.
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With 5 months to go until the opening ceremonies we are starting to track Vancouver craigslist posts to help readers gauge the open marketplace for purchasing or selling Winter Olympic event tickets.
August 12th-September 12th, 2009
Tickets for sale: 46
Wanting to Buy: 0
Hockey Tickets for sale: 25
We recently posted some quarter final tickets on Craigslist for $200 and also asked whether a secondary market really even existed given that seat assignments and hard copy tickets are not available. First, here’s how well our ad fared:
Genuine Inquiries: 2
Here are the comments:
“I bought 6 months ago… (well I paid a small amount down) when the seller gets the tickets I will pay the rest. I got a great deal (if they actually exist) 
I do have a signed agreement.”
“YOU ARE SO RIGHT WAIT TILL ALL THE SEATS COME OUT IN DEC THEN YOU CAN REALLY KNOW THE PRICES OF SEATS”
“I have sold some tickets for decent prices right now – have to wait for the right buyer. Risk in waiting is that the market will become flooded – i do not think it will be too much of an issue though.”
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Download a pdf of the Men’s Hockey Schedule for the 2010 Olympics. We have organized by Vanoc’s specific game code, date, time, and location which will simplify the ticket buying process.
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With the highly contested 2010 Olympic Ticket Lottery now over, VANOC (Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games) has followed up with a banner ad campaign on Vancouver Sun’s web site reminding Olympic ticket hopefuls to “BE SURE YOUR OLYMPIC TICKETS COME FROM AN OFFICIAL SOURCE“. The Committee maintains their intention is to protect fans from buying counterfeit tickets which I imagine is partly true, but another, perhaps bigger motive of the ad blitz is to discourage the success of a secondary grey market from profiting off the public at inflated prices.
Right now VANOC has a few things working in its favour to get a jump start on the secondary market:
1. Tickets have been allocated more than a full year ahead of the events. The urgency is not there for a ticket buyer to get them immediately.
2. Hard copy tickets are not being issued and delivered until December 2009. Although the physical ticket is transferable once in someone’s hand, it is tougher to sell a ticket you won’t receive for 11 months. Various ticket brokers are currently working on legal contracts that will bind the seller to the sale once tickets are issued, but something tells me the legal work going on behind the deals on Craigslist holds little more than that a handshake.
3. Vanoc has openly stated that they will void any tickets that they learn to have been sold at a higher price than face value. This is absolutely ludicrous and I can’t see it being much more than verbal warfare against scalping. Are they going to hire ticket narc’s to pretend to buy tickets at a higher price and then void them? This borders on insanity, but shows the lengths they are willing to go in deterring a scalper’s market.
At www.2010tracker.com we are monitoring the market for 2010 Olympic Tickets and will report regularly as well as offer insight and comparisons on the various ticket brokers for sellers and buyers.
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Visit CoSport’s site, the Official Ticket Agent of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, has tickets available for sale for residents of the following countries:
