People have a six-week window to apply for tickets on the London 2012 website.
The demand for tickets even prompted three Newark firefighters to cut in line, officials said.
They will be asked to read signs, board a bus and pay for tickets.
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"The website's not crashing... it's just the demand for tickets, " he told the BBC.
Details will be given next month of how to apply for tickets by phone or internet.
Organisers said demand for tickets had been "phenomenal", despite the event not selling out.
Colleagues, neighbours or relatives chip in for tickets to improve the chances of a big win.
New Age hippies, pampered glamourpusses, lagered-up lads and ladettes... the clamour for tickets gets louder every year.
Phone requests for tickets to the show once blew out the switchboard in a small New England town.
Demand for tickets overloaded the Web site of the third-party vender, ShowClix, minutes after they went on sale.
Highland has invested in a company called FanSnap that lets users search for tickets to sporting events and concerts.
They lowered prices for tickets, parking and concessions prior to this season.
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"You wouldn't believe the number of requests we got for tickets, " she said.
An impromptu black market for tickets has sprung up outside a subway station.
Such is the demand for tickets that those for the tournament are only available to the patrons of the club.
Families who had applied for tickets, only to have their money returned months later because none were available, felt diddled.
Punters pay for tickets to see an unnamed film at an unknown location with instructions to dress to a certain theme.
Zachary said his number was posted on the internet in July last year, encouraging fans to call for tickets, t-shirts and souvenirs.
Before the drawing, there was a rush for tickets around the country.
The organisers said ticket sales could break the 20, 000 level for tickets sold in 2010, with about 1, 500 ticket sales per day.
That would essentially means fans raised the money, then proceeded to pay for tickets in order to see it on top of that.
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The demand for tickets was completely predictable, as 2.8 billion rail journeys are expected during the Chinese New Year holidays later this month.
In college he saw a newspaper listing for somebody that had tickets for sale and another for someone that was looking for tickets.
It's all part of a strategy to become a destination for tickets as the line between primary and secondary ticket markets continues to blur.
That means, for example, you can't use it to pay for tickets to a charity dinner or bid for items at a charity auction.
As you know, FanSnap is a search engine for tickets (vs. a marketplace or a broker), displaying tickets from dozens of the best marketplaces and brokers.
Soon I was inviting friends to Utah for the festival, camping out overnight for tickets and sitting through as many as four films a day.
Consumers who were queuing for tickets were encouraged to send photos from their phones to a giant screen adorned with branding for its Robinsons line of soft drinks.
So even as the budding middle classes now form the first queues for tickets to the Terracotta Army, the country still has no travel industry to speak of.
Residents sign up for tickets on a first-come, first-serve basis.
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