It's coincidence. I out of interest I staggered the log on of my devices from the start of the countdown until 13 seconds before the end of it and there was zero pattern of which ones got furthest. The one that progressed the most for me was a logon somewhere in the middle.
Lucky you! For some reason I was refusing to watch the forum action during purchase... Coordinating between people buying for us was all I did. Annoyingly I was like three bars from being allowed in before the sold out message happened. So disappointing.
I'm no expert on these things, I've not been involved in web development for a long long time. (I'm going back to days of every site being built on HTML, PHP, MySQL and hosted on an Apache server. Alarmingly close to 20 years ago! 🤣) But even at the most basic level, It should be child's play to have the purchase confirmation screen either edit a cookie or write a cookie that can be checked before allowing another purchase. This wouldn't be full proof, can easily be overcome, but it would prevent a lot of the non-techie, casual, backspacers.
Really though, and I admit, I'm not fully up to date on all of this, but I would think the queue-it session token needs deleting / invalidating entirely upon a successful purchase, both locally and, more importantly, on the CDN servers. It seems to me, like they've only implemented a time based expiry, and that's what causes the issue.
I think it's perhaps indicative how average festivals are next summer.
Take Stormzy and Roskilde, which is perhaps a more crazy choice than fender.
It's quite interesting more festivals are trying to get under 21's, with cheaper tickets.
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