My best tips for ticket day....

[Apone]

1. Go through the Seetickets website link rather than the Glastonbury website link (coz everyone goes via that)

2. Have all your details on a Word Doc ready to cut and paste once you're into the ticket sale page (Debit card, cvv, registration number, postcode etc)

3. I've had best results purchasing as a solo as inputting multiple personal details takes time and you can lose your slot. Once your ticket is bagged then try for your buddies 

4. Dont bother with multiple tabs, will slow down your processor

5. Be very careful with F5, one year I F5'd and refresehed out of the ticketsale page I'd just got into

 

Good luck, not going this year so there's one more ticket to bag

Edited September 18, 2018 by Apone

[mike86]

6 minutes ago, Apone said:

 

4. Dont bother with multiple tabs, will slow down your processor

5. Be very careful with F5, one year I F5'd and refresehed out of the ticketsale page I'd just got into

 

In recent years seetickets have put a limit of 60 f5's per minute. Anymore and you'll be bumped to a holding page. I think this was discussed on another thread. 

 

I'm also pretty sure you now cant refresh off the ticket page; once your IP is through, you won't lose the page. 

 

If you're stuck on a white screen (not getting the holding page), clear your cache, Shift + ctrl + delete. 

[balti-pie]

Book your own ticket and then go back to book your mates? That’s cold! 

[marathonsteve]

I tried wiFi in Wetherspoons one year. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[FuzzyDunlop]

56 minutes ago, Apone said:

1. Go through the Seetickets website link rather than the Glastonbury website link (coz everyone goes via that)

2. Have all your details on a Word Doc ready to cut and paste once you're into the ticket sale page (Debit card, cvv, registration number, postcode etc)

3. I've had best results purchasing as a solo as inputting multiple personal details takes time and you can lose your slot. Once your ticket is bagged then try for your buddies 

4. Dont bother with multiple tabs, will slow down your processor

5. Be very careful with F5, one year I F5'd and refresehed out of the ticketsale page I'd just got into

 

Good luck, not going this year so there's one more ticket to bag

there is a seetickets link?!

[shuttlep]

got one on my phone whilst eating crumpets one year

[DareToDibble]

1 hour ago, mike86 said:

I'm also pretty sure you now cant refresh off the ticket page; once your IP is through, you won't lose the page. 

Is this definitely the case? One less thing to worry about if so!

[Nobody Interesting]

Can you still use the back button once you have got tickets to get back to the booking screen again - and if so is it pressing it 2 or 3 times?

[semmtexx]

41 minutes ago, shuttlep said:

got one on my phone whilst eating crumpets one year

I've heard of breakfast of champions but that's some skill level there!

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, semmtexx said:

I've heard of breakfast of champions but that's some skill level there!

should it read got jam on my phone while eating crumpet one year

 

[semmtexx]

2 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

should it read got jam on my phone while eating crumpet one year

 

I do love hot buttered crumpet. Find they keep on sticking in my toaster though. Camp fire on a fork I reckon. 

[FrancisH]

2 hours ago, Apone said:

3. I've had best results purchasing as a solo as inputting multiple personal details takes time and you can lose your slot. Once your ticket is bagged then try for your buddies

 

My buddy did something similar last year - Put it this way, he was extremely fortunate that the rest of us got tickets after about 10 solid minutes of swearing at him via whatsapp.

[gmb1992]

2 hours ago, Apone said:

 

2. Have all your details on a Word Doc ready to cut and paste once you're into the ticket sale page (Debit card, cvv, registration number, postcode etc)

 

This but Excel not Word.

[crocodiles]

Get all your kids to go on phones I pads laptops whatever they have 

[shuttlep]

2 hours ago, Apone said:

 

3. I've had best results purchasing as a solo as inputting multiple personal details takes time and you can lose your slot. Once your ticket is bagged then try for your buddies 

 

so glad I am not in your ticket group

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

1 hour ago, shuttlep said:

got one on my phone whilst eating crumpets one year

I got one using the WIFI on a plane from Singapore to London in 2015

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

2 hours ago, Apone said:

2. Have all your details on a Word Doc ready to cut and paste once you're into the ticket sale page (Debit card, cvv, registration number, postcode etc)

Make sure the font is Comic Sans. That guarantees a ticket.

[Hugh Jass]

My advice:

Mash the F5 key and pray to whichever deity you deem worthy.

[Brave Sir Robin]

2 hours ago, Apone said:

3. I've had best results purchasing as a solo as inputting multiple personal details takes time and you can lose your slot

Well, it does surprise me that this is your attitude, given your political leanings:

 

[Eks101]

2 hours ago, Apone said:

 

3. I've had best results purchasing as a solo as inputting multiple personal details takes time and you can lose your slot. Once your ticket is bagged then try for your buddies 

Good luck, not going this year so there's one more ticket to bag

Really? Always found that hard part actually getting to the order screen - never actually lost a slot here (although last year it did seem to hang during processing so had to refresh a few times).  Don't think I'd have the balls to tell my mates I got to the magic screen but only bagged my own ticket....

[Nobody Interesting]

4 minutes ago, Eks101 said:

Don't think I'd have the balls to tell my mates I got to the magic screen but only bagged my own ticket....

Doing that would mean not having the same problem again as you would have no mates.

I can't believe the other poster does this and is not on a wind up.

[semmtexx]

1 hour ago, gmb1992 said:

This but Excel not Word.

Why? Is it better in some way? Or can word add characters that screw up the reg numbers etc. 

Edited September 18, 2018 by semmtexx

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

If entering 5 extra registrations is the difference between one person getting a ticket and nobody getting a ticket, then you’re not going to get the chance to go back in and book for your mates are you?

If you get through after say 10 minutes it’s pretty safe to say you’ve got plenty of time to get your friends tickets as well. If you get through after about 30 minutes then if you decide to only get yours you’re basically going on your own.

It would be an odd decision either way if you ask me.

Edited September 18, 2018 by Deaf Nobby Burton

[oneeye]

18 minutes ago, semmtexx said:

Why? Is it better in some way? Or can word add characters that screw up the reg numbers etc. 

I’ve always used notepad; cut & paste easy peasy. There, that’s my top tip ?

[kalifire]

One browser.

One window.

One F5.

Hunker down.

Go hard.

Don’t quit.

Keep persisting.

Good luck. 

Edited September 18, 2018 by kalifire