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Best of luck to them if that’s real…

Last year was my first time not being there for ages my choice as id decided to call it quits Felt a bit weird watching footage the first day ,second day had friends and family round from midday put tv outside and lit fire pit in evening Sunday totally knackered and was glad to wake up in me own bed lol A lot of alcohol was consumed as is tradition but felt like the Saturday session got it out of my system  Tried for tickets for friends on Sunday and failed didnt have any desire to change my mind at all   Seen a few gigs i wouldn't have been able to see if id gone glasto this yer So happy with that      

I’m sorry, but does anybody actually think they care? I would hope they do, but realistically I don’t think they do. The festival sells out yearly, and incredibly quickly, and the method people got their tickets (ethical or not) never realistically has an impact on the composition of the crowd.   It would be amazing if Glastonbury cared deeply enough to make the system as fair as they could for everybody, but they have shown they clearly don’t by opting out of certain options they had to maintain fairness through Queue-It/See Tickets - somebody mentioned this in more detail earlier.   Also there is absolutely no chance ‘they’ are reading forums/reddit etc. for information. If the ‘they’ is individuals working directly for the festival I’m sure they have little to no say in the technical side of the sale, apart from maybe EE herself who I’m sure has a lot more on her plate. Or if the ‘they’ is people working for See Tickets, or Queue-It, they’ll already be aware of loopholes in their system, and either can’t or won’t do anything about it - for whatever reason.   Also, in terms of things being ‘fair’ or not, the standard seems to be that if you get more devices, and more people to help that’s fine. But if you look for more information from different sources, and try to ‘hack’ the system, then that’s not fine. Why is that where the line is drawn? On top of all of this, why does morality have to be attached to the issue. I can understand why people don’t like touting, and selling queue places etc. anything to do with making a profit from people needing a product in this situation I am against. But, anything else I think is fine. Say somebody personally bought downloaded and set up a ticket selling bot after spending hours researching it - is this not just an example of somebody putting ‘more’ effort in to getting tickets, in the same way somebody clicking F5 lots of times, but no more than 60 times a minute is putting in more ‘effort’ than somebody who hasn’t sourced this information and doesn’t know to do it?   If your answer to this is ‘but some people already have the tech knowledge to manipulate the system, and that’s not fair.’ Why stop there? It’s also not fair that some people 2 devices with different connections and others without a laptop/computer can only buy tickets on their phone. To conclude, I’m sure the festival don’t care, but have to look like they do. I think ticket touting is bad and shouldn’t be allowed, but everything else is fair game.   FYI - A friend got my tickets, I opened up a sh*t load of tabs on different profiles through Chrome, and got through on one of them for another group. The past years when I have been successful it has been through pure luck/through help from a syndicate.

Couldn't agree more, you do what you have to do to get a ticket.  I guess the only thing is when does "gaming" become "cheating"?   As soon as the new system was announced and there was no logon of any kind required it was always going to be gamed.

Same for us. Only two tickets in our booking though as we were the last of the group to make it in.