Ticket tips and Tricks for 2025 festival

[stuie]

1 hour ago, Fred Zepplin said:

Do we actually think they will use the queuing system then? 
Will be a massive disadvantage to us all here but the tickets will be spread out evenly amongst the newbie’s and the regulars 

no I don’t think so… maybe 2027. 
can’t see them throwing the cat amongst the pigeons before the fallow year and without announcing it along with the ticket sale date. 

[TheGoodWillOut]

3 hours ago, briddj said:

 

Yep, loads of people I know didn't look anywhere else but TM for Oasis. We got ours on See.

gigs and tours for me, took about 30 mins of refreshing 

[efcfanwirral]

20 minutes ago, TheGoodWillOut said:

gigs and tours for me, took about 30 mins of refreshing 

I got through for two lots of friends on See using their accounts. Quite what they were doing themselves I have no idea as I wasn't doing anything different to normal 

[TheGoodWillOut]

5 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

I got through for two lots of friends on See using their accounts. Quite what they were doing themselves I have no idea as I wasn't doing anything different to normal 

i had zero joy on see tickets all morning. 

 

I think once you get in and complete,  your cookie is still live and you then get in again 

[doogie]

18 hours ago, efcfanwirral said:

I got through for two lots of friends on See using their accounts. Quite what they were doing themselves I have no idea as I wasn't doing anything different to normal 

 

I got through six times on See for friends and family in the Oasis sale.

 

Probably could have got more as I went out for a stroll for an hour and when I got back, two more screens had the buying page but had timed out.

 

No luck whatsoever on Ticketmaster.

 

Edited yesterday at 04:13 PM by doogie

[monday]

Why do we think they won't employ the queue system?

 

It's giving me the biggest fear. For any gig ever I will always go to See tickets. They've now destroyed their only selling point over Ticketmaster in my opinion. Seeing them roll it out for big events gives me fear.

 

Saw a lot of people saying they were 300 etc in the queue for Sam Fender and still got zero tickets.

The system is definitely ready to roll. I only pray it doesn't happen for Glasto :(

[incident]

15 minutes ago, monday said:

Why do we think they won't employ the queue system?

 

It's giving me the biggest fear. For any gig ever I will always go to See tickets. They've now destroyed their only selling point over Ticketmaster in my opinion. Seeing them roll it out for big events gives me fear.

 

Saw a lot of people saying they were 300 etc in the queue for Sam Fender and still got zero tickets.

The system is definitely ready to roll. I only pray it doesn't happen for Glasto 😞

 

I don't think there's a consensus on whether they use it or not - and ultimately we may not even know for sure either way until 6pm (or just before) on November 14th. My gut feeling is that they will, but I certainly wouldn't put any money on that.

[Havors]

23 hours ago, stuie said:

no I don’t think so… maybe 2027. 
can’t see them throwing the cat amongst the pigeons before the fallow year and without announcing it along with the ticket sale date. 

I would agree but we are all people invested. I have a sneaky feeling the new decision makers are so disconnected they are more than likely to f**k everything up... 

 

Even with EE and the festival warning them. Do no underestimate the arrogance and ignorance of higher management of large companies. 

[incident]

30 minutes ago, Havors said:

Even with EE and the festival warning them. Do no underestimate the arrogance and ignorance of higher management of large companies. 

 

I'm much less convinced than others that EE/GFL will be quite so dogmatic with the specific technicalities of how the ticket sale site works. My suspicion is that to date they've probably deferred to Seetickets on most technical aspects including things like a queue (or lack of it), and only insisted on functional things that they actually need - such as the photo database, and the ability to select Coach departure points.

 

Yes, I did hear the recentish EE interview - I see that more as stating that she's happy with how things have been, rather than setting out a philosophical vision.

 

The reason I think that is that - registration database and coach selection aside - the Glastonbury site has never behaved much differently to the regular Seetickets site at the same moment in time, at least in terms of getting onto the site and also in terms of actually processing the order. As best I can tell they've pretty much grafted the (fairly simplistic, at that) registration database and coach selection on to the front of a standard white label See hosted site.

[Gnomicide]

I can't see things changing this year. I think we'd know by now if it was, probably would have just come out, buried amongst the info when they announced the sale date. 

[incident]

7 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

I can't see things changing this year. I think we'd know by now if it was, probably would have just come out, buried amongst the info when they announced the sale date. 

 

I don't think they need to tell anyone as such and can see good reasons why they'd choose not to (such as leaving room for a last minute change of mind).

 

I know it's not the same thing, but they didn't say anything about it ahead of their recent gig onsales where they first used it.

[Havors]

20 minutes ago, incident said:

 

I'm much less convinced than others that EE/GFL will be quite so dogmatic with the specific technicalities of how the ticket sale site works. My suspicion is that to date they've probably deferred to Seetickets on most technical aspects including things like a queue (or lack of it), and only insisted on functional things that they actually need - such as the photo database, and the ability to select Coach departure points.

 

Yes, I did hear the recentish EE interview - I see that more as stating that she's happy with how things have been, rather than setting out a philosophical vision.

 

The reason I think that is that - registration database and coach selection aside - the Glastonbury site has never behaved much differently to the regular Seetickets site at the same moment in time, at least in terms of getting onto the site and also in terms of actually processing the order. As best I can tell they've pretty much grafted the (fairly simplistic, at that) registration database and coach selection on to the front of a standard white label See hosted site.

Yeah kind of my point. I would imagine they may question any decision to change. But I doubt they are invested as much as we are to care too much if see tickets insisted on change.

 

Another thing centre to mind this year for me... did it seem there was no fuss about deadlines for registering?? I'm probably over thinking it haha

 

I think if they are keeping the photos on tickets I don't see th changing the ticket system this year tbh

 

 

[incident]

4 minutes ago, Havors said:

Another thing centre to mind this year for me... did it seem there was no fuss about deadlines for registering?? I'm probably over thinking it haha

 

On that one, I think it just feels that way because last year there was so much fuss about it - first with the deadline to update existing registrations, and then because a load of people got caught unawares and realised theirs had been zapped.

 

With this year being "as you were" on the registration front, they can go back to the more usual situation of it being a single line on the ticket info page and in the news article.

[kalifire]

16 hours ago, monday said:

Why do we think they won't employ the queue system?

If they had decided to use a queue based system, they would have made that decision months ago, probably sometime after last year’s sales. So for me, a big reason they won’t change this time is the wording on their website. There’s the usual stuff about not using multiple browsers etc., which would be redundant if they knew a queue system was going to be used.

 

If they’re going to change, I reckon after the fallow year is the most obvious time to do it.  

[TheGoodWillOut]

On 10/25/2024 at 8:44 PM, Fred Zepplin said:

Do we actually think they will use the queuing system then? 
Will be a massive disadvantage to us all here but the tickets will be spread out evenly amongst the newbie’s and the regulars 

 

Bit of reverse psychology, why wouldn't see use a queue? it's proven technology that has been tested  & delivers ticket sales quickly & efficiently while completely removing none responsive websites and protecting the back end servers. 

 

I think we could be in for a shock.

 

 

 

Edited 6 hours ago by TheGoodWillOut

[stuie]

2 minutes ago, TheGoodWillOut said:

 

Bit of reverse physiology, why wouldn't see use a queue? it's proven technology that has been tested  & delivers ticket sales quickly & efficiently while completely removing none responsive websites and protecting the back end servers. 

 

I think we could be in for a shock.

 

 

 

It’s also inexpensive tech that’s been around for several years now. So, on that note, why haven’t they deployed it before? 

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, TheGoodWillOut said:

 

Bit of reverse physiology, why wouldn't see use a queue? it's proven technology that has been tested  & delivers ticket sales quickly & efficiently while completely removing none responsive websites and protecting the back end servers. 

 

I think we could be in for a shock.

 

 

 

I’m 50 / 50 the bigger sales haven’t gone well in my opinion with loads of bot errors but they were on TM etc … have see done a sufficient dry run ( the sam fender sale ) to test how well it works ? Do they need to ? Ticket wording barely changed which could easily be done but would they need to ? Lots of counter arguments on this one .they sell the tickets out anyway and Emily has also stated that she doesn’t like a ballot 

[TheGoodWillOut]

2 minutes ago, stuie said:

It’s also inexpensive tech that’s been around for several years now. So, on that note, why haven’t they deployed it before? 

correct it has been round for years and way beyond me how they decide which artist or event uses it.  Could be down to cost, demand who knows but it is getting more common 

 

 

[TheGoodWillOut]

as long as they don't make us click on pictures of bicycles, steps, cars or fire hydrants and then decipher a word that looks like it's written in hebrew 

[Crazyfool01]

3 minutes ago, TheGoodWillOut said:

as long as they don't make us click on pictures of bicycles, steps, cars or fire hydrants and then decipher a word that looks like it's written in hebrew 

They’ll be pictures of pyramids instead 

[stuie]

5 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

They’ll be pictures of pyramids instead 

Flags! 😂

 

Select all squares that contain a flag:

 

 

 

[Crazyfool01]

3 minutes ago, stuie said:

Flags! 😂

 

Select all squares that contain a flag:

 

 

 

That’s a better reply 😂

[monday]

7 hours ago, kalifire said:

If they had decided to use a queue based system, they would have made that decision months ago, probably sometime after last year’s sales. So for me, a big reason they won’t change this time is the wording on their website. There’s the usual stuff about not using multiple browsers etc., which would be redundant if they knew a queue system was going to be used.

 

If they’re going to change, I reckon after the fallow year is the most obvious time to do it.  

I hope you're right but it's not really something they need to put on their website or tell buyers etc. No other event announces there'll be a queue or it's a re-fresh game.

Nerves are shot to bits over this. Never despised a queue system ever in my life. Don't think I've ever got a ticket for a gig with a queue system. Always lets me in and they're all sold out every single time.

 

Not to mention with a queue system the sale could go on for hours delaying the pain 😞

[Ayrshire Chris]

2 hours ago, stuie said:

Flags! 😂

 

Select all squares that contain a flag:

 

 

 

Or select the occupied long drop cubicles

[incident]

42 minutes ago, monday said:

Not to mention with a queue system the sale could go on for hours delaying the pain 😞

 

I don't think it would be likely to make that much difference to the overall sale time - the reason for implementing a queue would be to limit the number of people reaching the site so that they can cope with the numbers without issues. They've already had (less visible, and sometimes bypassable) mechanisms for doing that for many years now and so would expect them to keep the throughput broadly similar.

Edited 2 hours ago by incident