According to this article today, if you want to pay by card for London Olympic tickets and merchandise or withdraw cash from machines at Olympic venues, you will only be able to do so with a VISA branded credit/debit card! This is part of the sponsorship agreement between the London 2012 and VISA whereby VISA paying a load of their money stomps all over the concepts of legal tender for the public! It’s shocking to what extent the Olympics has completely abandoned all principles in recent years in order to sell their soul to large corporations.
I particularly like this statement: “Visa points out that non-Visa card holders can buy a pre-pay card for the duration of the Games”. Why the hell should we?!
The Office of Fair Trading is looking into the agreement which in my opinion should be branded illegal.
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