11-29-2007, 05:05 AM
Let's say you want to buy tickets to the Winter Olympics. Of course, if you want tickets to something like ski jumping finals, it's only available in a package with six other events, so it could easily be $1000 dollars per person.
So you request that, and you have to pay for it up front. You also want tickets to the opening ceremony, which is maybe $500 per person. And figure skating finals, at $1200 per person. Five months later, they hold the lottery, and you don't win. No tickets for you. They refund your money. Of course, best case scenario is, you paid off that bill, and simply lent them $5400 for five or six months. At no interest. But I'd bet a lot of people won't pay off those bills immediately, so they pay interest and maybe even finance charges.
And that's why there's only one way to pay for your tickets to the ultimate expression of sport. Visa -- it's everywhere you want to be.
So you request that, and you have to pay for it up front. You also want tickets to the opening ceremony, which is maybe $500 per person. And figure skating finals, at $1200 per person. Five months later, they hold the lottery, and you don't win. No tickets for you. They refund your money. Of course, best case scenario is, you paid off that bill, and simply lent them $5400 for five or six months. At no interest. But I'd bet a lot of people won't pay off those bills immediately, so they pay interest and maybe even finance charges.
And that's why there's only one way to pay for your tickets to the ultimate expression of sport. Visa -- it's everywhere you want to be.