As I am a US resident, I purchased Tokyo Olympics tickets for more than 20 sessions from the official distributor CoSport. It seems that the process is different from residents in Japan who bought Olympics tickets from the Japanese sales site. The difference possibly will apply to resale process after purchase.
I wasn’t clear about resale process on CoSport website and their emails, and I asked CoSport about the following two questions on email.
- [Question 1] Is there a ticket resale in the future?
- [Question 2] What should I do if my mailing address changes?
About Ticket Resale
In Japan, an “official resale” service that allows you to buy and sell tickets at a fixed price will be launched after spring 2020. I wonder if CoSport will follow the same process. I found no particular description on the CoSport official website, and also I was able to find no particular description about overseas residents on Japanese purchase site.
Accoridng to CoSport, there is no official resale in the United States.
This is the reply I had from CoSport after more than a month.
「We do not manage resale.」
In fact, I found the answer in the CoSport website’s FAQ page.
It does not tell any more details about how to transfer tickets or whether tickets can be transferred to family members, friends, or co-workers outside the United States such as Japan. I will need to check back sometime in the future.
However, as a person who has reached the purchase limit of 30 tickets for one individual, the resale would be an only option to make room for buying more tickets.
About Mailing Address Change
Changing mailing address at CoSport was an urgent task and risk for me because it has changed since I moved this February in the United States. I am using the mail forwarding service which is valid for next one year and all mails delivered to my old address should be forwarded to my new address, but I do not have a full trust in public services available here in the United States. 😉
For mailing address changes, confirmation of ticket purchase and FAQ on CoSport website have some details:
“Individual tickets orders placed prior to 30 April 2020 can only be shipped.”
My personal account on the CoSport website also has a field for mailing address. Should I change the address associated with the account? Here is CoSport’s answer to the question.
I slightly remember I’ve read this information somewhere, but I will wait patiently anyway. However, if this is the case, it is not clear what to do if you move or plan to move outside the United States. As you can see in the FAQ above, “Host City Collection”,which is to receive tickets in Tokyo, would be the option. (There is no confirmation though.)
