Volunteering 2023

[faymondo]

2 hours ago, mazola said:

How are you monitoring the page? If you can you best bet is to be logged in with a pc or desktop and use the distill extension. 

It's a free plug in, I had mine set to every 15 seconds and to monitor the festival drop down menu, that way if anything is added or removed you will get an alert. You only need to log in to oxfam once, but keep that page open. The fact that it is constantly accessing the site will keep you logged in. The downside is it will notify you every time any festival is added or removed, so will be lots of false alarms.

If you are having to access by phone your options may be limited, but Distill on desktop chrome works for me

We have Distill. My nephew paid for the month on his iPhone so alerts on that as well. Also comes through via my Apple watch. A few of us are using the same paid distill account. 

[faymondo]

9 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

quite a run of luck you are having 🙂 

Gotta keep trying haven't you 😄

Edited May 4, 2023 by faymondo

[JezzaBelle]

I've been constantly refreshing every 10 seconds for an hour. A place became available but was 'sold out' by the time I'd clicked on the terms boxes.

What on earth are people using to not only 'proceed' but to add all payment details in less than 1 second?

I could cry 🥺

Edited May 4, 2023 by JezzaBelle

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, JezzaBelle said:

I've been constantly refreshing every 10 seconds for an hour. A place became available but was 'sold out' by the time I'd clicked on the terms boxes.

What on earth are people using to not only 'proceed' but to add all payment details in less than 1 second?

I could cry 🥺

Apple Pay 

[JezzaBelle]

2 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

Apple Pay 

I have googlepay. Surely that's the same speed?

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, JezzaBelle said:

I have googlepay. Surely that's the same speed?

Would think so … 

[northernangel]

On 5/3/2023 at 2:26 PM, incident said:

That's a good sentiment, but unfortunately it seems to be quite difficult to make a direct correlation between places being cancelled and when they subsequently become available. It appears that there's a step or two behind the scenes that's not visible to us.

Possibly. Unfortunately the best I can do though.

[The Other Steve]

1 hour ago, JezzaBelle said:

I have googlepay. Surely that's the same speed?

It is.  That's how I did it.

[gazzared]

2 hours ago, JezzaBelle said:

I've been constantly refreshing every 10 seconds for an hour. A place became available but was 'sold out' by the time I'd clicked on the terms boxes.

What on earth are people using to not only 'proceed' but to add all payment details in less than 1 second?

I could cry 🥺

Keep at it... With that dedication you'll get a spot....I refreshed the page almost constantly for a month in 2019 and got in a week before 🤞

[faymondo]

Oxfam spot at 1pm then. Our gang missed it. 

[Johnnyseven]

8 minutes ago, faymondo said:

Oxfam spot at 1pm then. Our gang missed it. 

Was there? My Distill didn't pick it up, must've gone super fast.

[Hugh with a P]

Got one for a friend of a friend around 1pm.  Must have been that one!  Keep trying folks .. they are still popping up !

We got lucky on Tuesday and got 2 places. 

In 2019 I got one on 31st May so keep the faith. 

[March Hare]

There is a Bearded Theory place at the moment. Those are rarer than Glasto places 

[Johnnyseven]

24 minutes ago, March Hare said:

There is a Bearded Theory place at the moment. Those are rarer than Glasto places 

Oxfam announced on FB they released a batch of them today. I about to grab one but I was waiting to hear if my friends are going as punters as if they are I don't want to work and i'll buy a ticket.

[gazzared]

40 minutes ago, March Hare said:

There is a Bearded Theory place at the moment. Those are rarer than Glasto places 

yeah its been there since the morning and ive never seen Bearded places become available

[March Hare]

1 hour ago, Johnnyseven said:

Oxfam announced on FB they released a batch of them today. I about to grab one but I was waiting to hear if my friends are going as punters as if they are I don't want to work and i'll buy a ticket.

 

1 hour ago, gazzared said:

yeah its been there since the morning and ive never seen Bearded places become available

Ah that makes sense.  Not been myself but it’s incredibly popular with the Oxfam regulars so they must be doing something right

Edited May 5, 2023 by March Hare

[Johnnyseven]

30 minutes ago, March Hare said:

 

Ah that makes sense.  Not been myself but it’s incredibly popular with the Oxfam regulars so they must be doing something right

They've all gone now.

[Losing my hair]

1 hour ago, March Hare said:

 

Ah that makes sense.  Not been myself but it’s incredibly popular with the Oxfam regulars so they must be doing something right

I'll be at Bearded with Oxfam shop which will be my third. It really is a great little festival with a really good crew bar.

I'm just hoping that now that DHP have bought into the festival, that they don't change it too much.

[Jay Pee]

4 hours ago, Losing my hair said:

I'll be at Bearded with Oxfam shop which will be my third. It really is a great little festival with a really good crew bar.

I'm just hoping that now that DHP have bought into the festival, that they don't change it too much.

You must work with Ben?  We always have the crack with you folk there and buy some clobber 

[philipsteak]

16 hours ago, gazzared said:

yeah its been there since the morning and ive never seen Bearded places become available

Met a few last year at Bearded who got places quite late. Probably about now in fact. One young lad who'd never stewarded before, never even been to a festival before, didn't know a single name on the lineup and decided on a whim last minute to sign up on his own. And he was bloody loving it. 

[Losing my hair]

10 hours ago, Jay Pee said:

You must work with Ben?  We always have the crack with you folk there and buy some clobber 

I do know Ben, do come and say hello. 

[Jay Pee]

1 hour ago, Losing my hair said:

I do know Ben, do come and say hello. 

Will do. 

[CleanShirt]

Bearded Theory is available again..

[Jack.194]

Those who have volunteered with Oxfam before, did you camp in the Oxfam camp site or elsewhere? It says on the website you have to camp in the Oxfam camp site, how strict are they with enforcing this?

[Leyrulion]

13 minutes ago, Jack.194 said:

Those who have volunteered with Oxfam before, did you camp in the Oxfam camp site or elsewhere? It says on the website you have to camp in the Oxfam camp site, how strict are they with enforcing this?

"Strict"

But they'd never know, just don't try to be too obvious taking a tent out of staff camping on Wednesday.