Tickets on sale Sunday 7 Oct

[Spindles]

There is always a way to gain advantage, the fun is finding that way every year

[Badlands]

forgive me if this is incorrect but I bought tickets for the Killers using See Tickets website last week and I'm sure the queuing system has changed.

If I recall correctly, when previously buying tickets with demand, you'd click on the gig link and then have to wait to see if you get through to the page which asked you how many tickets you wanted etc etc. So the initial link was the struggle to get too with you constantly refreshing etc. Once you had passed that it was easy from then on and allowed you to go back and forward.

When I tried for Killers tickets, the page that got stuck and forced you to refresh was the second link after you had chosen how many you wanted to buy.

Does this make sense?

[bez87]

don't you think maybe there should be some sort of an advanced ticket option for people who go every year, it's the only festival i know that you have to sign up and have a picture, surely it would be best to offer tickets to people who have been going every year so they don't need the hassal of maybe not managing to get a ticket just because the pc didn't allow it, not saying every single person but if your on the system and you've been 4times on the trot with see tickets then it would be a nice incentive to have that option, and let the new comers battle it out.,

or something like that

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

But what do you define as people who go every year? This will be my third (fingers crossed) but there's people who have been to fifteen in a row or something like that, even on this board. Where do you draw the line? I don't think there should ever be anything at Glasto which seeks to seperate newcomers from the old, but that's a different subject. Glasto thrives on newcomers, and it also thrives on regulars.

[Badlands]

Why should one have a preference over the other?

[eFestivals]

don't you think maybe there should be some sort of an advanced ticket option for people who go every year, it's the only festival i know that you have to sign up and have a picture, surely it would be best to offer tickets to people who have been going every year so they don't need the hassal of maybe not managing to get a ticket just because the pc didn't allow it, not saying every single person but if your on the system and you've been 4times on the trot with see tickets then it would be a nice incentive to have that option, and let the new comers battle it out.,

or something like that

nah ... if past attendees get a right to a ticket before others it'll just become a stale clique and lose its vibrancy.

And why should those who've been before get greater rights over others anyway? We're all equally human beings.

As I've said above, I reckon how it now is about right, where those who try the hardest are most likely to succeed. That way it rewards people who *really* want to go above those who care about going less - with those "really want to go" people being either people who've been before or newbies.

[5co77ie]

forgive me if this is incorrect but I bought tickets for the Killers using See Tickets website last week and I'm sure the queuing system has changed.

If I recall correctly, when previously buying tickets with demand, you'd click on the gig link and then have to wait to see if you get through to the page which asked you how many tickets you wanted etc etc. So the initial link was the struggle to get too with you constantly refreshing etc. Once you had passed that it was easy from then on and allowed you to go back and forward.

When I tried for Killers tickets, the page that got stuck and forced you to refresh was the second link after you had chosen how many you wanted to buy.

Does this make sense?

Edited September 19, 2012 by 5co77ie

[bez87]

yea you've got a good point there, i didn't think of it like that, the only option then is, make it bigger lol joking hard enough walking round it now,

[01seb]

If you want real equality then go back to the days of camping outside the ticket office overnight.

Now that's not going to happen anymore, but I think the current system is a pretty good one. Everyone's got a pretty equal chance, and the people who want it the most are usually the people that get through.

[jeffie]

Hello all,

How weird it feels to be typing about Glastonbury again......

I've waited until now to start looking at this topic! Starting to feel tense now though.

Only 18 sleeps to go!!

[Jie Bie]

Have they announced how many tickets will be available on T-Day?

Would be interesting to compare it against how many registrations there are.

[eFestivals]

Have they announced how many tickets will be available on T-Day?

Would be interesting to compare it against how many registrations there are.

There's normally 135,000 tickets put on sale, I think.

The number of registrations must be in the millions now I reckon, tho a number of those will have expired, and a number of people have probably created duplicate ones as well I guess. So I don't think there's any way to judge in advance how many people might be trying on the day.

[Gnomicide]

Payday tomorrow. £50 being put to one side ready for the deposit. It's nearly here!

[GlastoSimon]

There's normally 135,000 tickets put on sale, I think.

The number of registrations must be in the millions now I reckon, tho a number of those will have expired, and a number of people have probably created duplicate ones as well I guess. So I don't think there's any way to judge in advance how many people might be trying on the day.

Edited September 19, 2012 by GlastoSimon

[LondonTom]

I am all signed up with my new photo now So ready to go

[strummer77]

EDIT: This has already been covered, but do people think that it'll be worse this year or better because of the fallow year? Also, I didn't realise the registration deadline is the 30th this year! I thought it was the 5th, good job I checked...

[parsonjack]

Normally I'd say worse but I'm not so sure because of a few factors. Festival sales are generally down, it was a rubbish summer and also the fact the tickets are passing the £200 barrier might put some off!

[LondonTom]

I should have a lie in on the 7th then if I

I was you....

[Memory Man]

judging by every sale since 2007, under the current system it is relatively simple. if you try hard enough you will get them. no one i know (and i know a lot who go or have gone to the festival over the last 5 years) has failed to get a ticket just because they were unlucky.

as for this year i think it will be about normal for demand. Increase in demand due to the year off, decrease in demand cos of the bad weather of 2012 and general decline in festivals as 'the cool thing to do' (See L&R not selling out, bestival taking until a week before to sell out) and the general economic climate.

I think these will even themselves out and it will take effort (and plenty contacts) to get tickets, but im not expecting any of my 10+ group to miss out on tickets

prepare yourself in all possible ways and you will more than likely succeed. even if you dont there's the resale next year, although i would be very uncomfortable relying on it as my final chance.

Edited September 20, 2012 by Memory Man

[Badlands]

Nice try to get one person off trying

I wouldn't miss 9am, but I do think it will be easier to them than most are predicting, I am defo thinking a 2010 style day rather than 2011 so most people who want should get

[indieboymatt]

I stumbled across this website a few weeks ago and have been wondering what other peoples thoughts are on whether it would aid getting tickets? It supposedly allows you to access websites which have crashed due to being overloaded with visitors...

http://www.coralcdn.org/

[Zero_Newnab]

I stumbled across this website a few weeks ago and have been wondering what other peoples thoughts are on whether it would aid getting tickets? It supposedly allows you to access websites which have crashed due to being overloaded with visitors...

http://www.coralcdn.org/

[TheNewUnion]

Just taking a look, appears as though it caches static content. Looks like it "hosts" copies of a site on a peer-to-peer network of some sort, rather than getting you to the domain itself.

So yeah, back to hitting that refresh button it seems.

Edited September 20, 2012 by TheNewUnion

[amfy]

"Just taking a look, appears as though it caches static content. Looks like it "hosts" copies of a site on a peer-to-peer network of some sort, rather than getting you to the domain itself".

I can always tell ticket day is getting near when I can't understand a word half of the posters on the ticket thread are saying!

I'll be up at around 8am, get drinks and biscuits, turn on computer and bookmark as many links as I can find that get me anywhere near the ticket page, keep refreshing and not joining any queues until I get tickets and do a little dance, or it sells out and I cry.

[LondonTom]

Plus would you really put your card details through a third party site to get tickets? Think about it people!