Vancouver Olympics manage to piss off several thousand, probably a few million

You'd think that the VANOC folks would expect a few hundred thousand hits on their servers when they put the final 2010 Vancouver winter Olympics tickets on sale this morning.  They failed, finally cancelling the sales for a week because of technical problems.  This Olympics has a budget of a few billion and they can't get something simple like online ticket sales right?  In the typical cavalier manner they have adopted to run these games, they didn't really even apologize for THE 4 HOURS I WASTED TRYING TO GET INTO THE WEBSITE.  Perhaps they knew I am leaving during the games because Vancouver is going to turn into a parking lot for 2 weeks and I really just wanted to scalp them like most everyone else who lives in Vancouver.

The sordid evidence of what the Vancouver Sun called the EPIC FAIL:

 

  

I thought I was getting somewhere here but the 1995 type web page below didn't give me much confidence.

  

  

The message below was a real piss off because it was up for a few hours and if you clicked on it, the page just re-loaded

 

This was the BS they posted on Twitter-nice apology

 

Comments

[GoingLikeSixty]

Un-fuckin'-believable.

Wait, no it's not. It's totally believable. I hope you can track down who has the contract for their web development and give them suitable reward for this screw up.

[web design Vancouver]

Its good chance for vancouver people.