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. |