Olympics Ticket Troubles
Victimized by being guaranteed tickets to the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics — and then never getting them?
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Ticket Troubles
Summary

In August, the law firm of Moriarty Leyendecker Erben began investigating fraudulent Olympics ticketing websites such as beijingticketing.com, which had taken advantage of thousands eager to buy tickets to the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. 

While uncovering evidence of widespread deceit by such websites, which sold unsuspecting Olympics fans non-existent tickets, we also began to discover other ticketing problems related to the Olympics. Among them are how the IOC and USOC treats the families of Olympic athletes who need tickets, and how otherwise respectable travel companies breach their responsibility to customers by promising to provide tickets, then failing to do so.

Moriarty Leyendecker Erben is continuing to dig into questions surrounding the way in which Olympics tickets are distributed and sold, and trying to determine who is responsible for the various problems we have found. We believe that anyone who plays a role in shattering the hopes of those seeking the trip of a lifetime should be held accountable. If you believe you were taken advantage of while buying or trying to buy tickets to the Olympics, we would like to hear from you. A brief questionnaire that will let you tell us about the problem can be found here.


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11.10.08

Families of Canada’s Winter Olympians Guaranteed Tickets

Of the many ticketing problems to surface at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, one of the more disturbing was the difficulties parents of Olympic athletes had obtaining tickets to see their children compete. To solve that problem for Canadian athletes at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, Petro Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee have established a program to guarantee not just event tickets but also lodging to Olympians’ family members. Some Olympics families are hoping to extend such programs to the 2012 Summer Olympics and beyond. For more on this, go here...


10.20.08

Will Vancouver Avoid Beijing’s Ticketing Woes?

As tickets for the Winter Olympics in Canada begin to go on sale, there’s some question as to whether the Vancouver Organizing Committee has done enough to avoid the ticketing problems that marred the Summer Olympics in Beijing. For more on the issue, click here.


10.8.08

Roadtrips Faces Lawsuit for Its Failure to Provide "Guaranteed" Tickets

Moriarty Leyendecker Erben has filed a lawsuit against Roadtrips, Inc. on behalf of 326 individuals who did not receive the Opening Ceremony tickets they purchased from Roadtrips. Despite guaranteeing the tickets in writing, Roadtrips advised the plaintiffs the day before the Opening Ceremonies that it could not provide the tickets as purchased. To read plaintiff's original complaint, click here.


10.2.08

Moriarty Leyendecker Erben Attorney Probes for Answers to Lingering Questions

In an interview with the Brisbane Times, attorney Jim Moriarty pleads for answers to the often asked questions swarming the Olympics ticketing scams: Where did the promised tickets go? Who profited from those tickets? How do we have an Olympic ticketing system that doesn't provide tickets for our athletes' families? To read the article, click here.


10.2.08

Houston Based Ticket Agency Faces Lawsuit

Moriarty Leyendecker Erben has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a group of individuals who purchased travel packages to the Beijing Olympics from On Point Sports. According to the plaintiffs, On Point Sports failed to provide the Opening Ceremony and various event tickets plaintiffs purchased. To read plaintiff's original petition, click here.

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