The London Olympic tickets web site has suffered a very embarrassing glitch after it started rejecting some VISA cards for tickets.
The problem seems to be due to the expiry dates on the cards which if it comes before the 31st July 2011, means the web site will reject it as an invalid card.
VISA blamed the web site for providing “false information”, but exactly what is wrong is unclear. Ticketmaster who are running the web site say it could take 2 weeks to fix the glitch. Not exactly good for a web site which is meant to be the 3rd biggest shopping cart in the world after Ebay and Amazon.com!
Luckily, as the requests are just an application to enter into a draw for tickets effectively no one will lose out, but coming after the Olympic clock failure some might be wondering if we should go back to doing things the old fashioned way with paper tickets and a ticket punch…?
