People wanting to snag tickets for the Paralympics, here's how

[unclekevin]

Firstly go to 2012ticketchecker.com/ this website tracks and tells you when tickets are put up for sale. When you know the event number you want to go to, type it in the website and if and when tickets you want for that event are put up for sale you will get alerted by either an Audio alert or Pop up alert, this afternoon I purchased 6 tickets for the Velodrome.
You don't have to refresh the webpage as it does it automatically, if you have a twitter account follow benmarsh as he set up the website. On the website it tells you what to do and also gives you tips on snagging tickets, the biggest tip I can pass on that helped for me is that If you miss a batch of sales, leave them in your shopping basket and don't close the webpage if or when LOCOG put more tickets on sale you'll be ahead of the pack by already having the tickets in your basket.

Is that how everyone got tickets for the Olympics too?

Thank you, have just got tickets for road race at brands hatch.

Not sure but I don't think so, ben marsh designed this great website as people (like myself) were finding it frustrating trying to get tickets for the Paralympics, another piece of advice I can give which helped me is that, set up two accounts on the official ticket website with obviously two different email addresses, i was fortunate to have two laptops, so I signed in with one email address on one laptop and signed with my other email address on my other laptop, as I was after tickets for different events for different days it helped that I had two shopping basket with tickets in them that I required if the tickets i was after for different days all of sudden became available, hope this helps and good luck if your hoping to snag some tickets

Your welcome micku5, glad you've got some.

I got mine by following @2012TicketAlert and @2012TicketAler2 on twitter and turning on mobile notifications (i.e. having their tweets sent to my phone by text message.)

There is a minute or two delay before the text messages get to my phone but it's better than nothing when I'm away from the screen. I just rush back to the laptop and cross my fingers! Have managed to get loads doing this though.

I also had a list of the session codes that I was interested in, so I just typed them in rather than searching through. Saved me a few seconds.

Good luck!