"Affordable" LA Olympics tickets arrive with $5,000 seats and a 24% convenience fee

Los Angeles promised a hometown Olympics that locals could actually attend, then opened ticket sales with $5,000 seats, vanishing "cheap" options, and a 24% service fee. Nothing says community celebration like getting priced out of your own city. > Customers were shocked to find that tickets for LA28, which officials billed as "affordable" for locals, could cost a small fortune. — Read the rest The post "Affordable" LA Olympics tickets arrive with $5,000 seats and a 24% convenience fee appeared first on Boing Boing.