Ticket tips and Tricks for 2025 festival

[Mike A]

6 minutes ago, Mish1268 said:

Forgive me for being behind.  The queue system is still speculation? 

 

Correct. No confirmation from the festival or See yet and there may not be.
    Speculation is based on some subtle changes in the browser to server communications.

    It could be in preparation for the sale or it could simply be an overall technical upgrade of the See compute infrastructure.

[Mike A]

2 hours ago, dotdash79 said:

Looks to be nothing, but nothing is stopping people from offering rewards in the current system.

 

I think we have had this discussion some time ago, maybe last year. The consensus seemed to be that offering rewards in the current system represented a trust risk: either the person buying the tickets needs to trust that the person wanting the tickets will reimburse them; or the person wanting the tickets needs to trust the person buying by sharing their card info.

That's why it currently works for ticket buying groups where everyone agrees to help each other out.
But wouldn't work for, say, a social media influencer and their followers.

 

[Mish1268]

Ah thank you dotdash79 and MikeA for update. I can't see them doing it. Somebody far far away in this thread said it could mean a lot of 1st timers getting through.  Which might make the tourist areas like SE corner even more congested.  I want lots of 1st timers. But congestion means it has to be balanced

Edited 15 hours ago by Mish1268
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[CaledonianGonzo]

How can you transfer a Queue ID?

[Suprefan]

If theyre going to switch it up its in for 2027 because they will have had 2 years to make the system better and to use it in many other onsales so that potential glasto ticket buyers will have more experience. If you botch this onsale with a new system you will have to make it right for the next one and thats pressure you dont need. Do the opposite. And its bad form to use this big of a sale to implement a new system. 

[Bolivia95]

11 hours ago, Mike A said:

- Follower shares a queue ID for an event that they either already have tickets for or are not interest in. No financial risk other than time.
- Requester gets queue ID from a follower. Either it's good and they get tickets or it's not and they move on.

 

How does one use the Queue ID? Does it go in the URL? Just asking in case I need to share one with someone in our syndicate 

[Suprefan]

1 minute ago, Bolivia95 said:

How does one use the Queue ID? Does it go in the URL? Just asking in case I need to share one with someone in our syndicate 

 

it gets tricky but there would have to be a glitch in the system to allow this to happen anyway. Coachella onsales had this loophole for a few years. If you got into the buy page and had finished your transaction, you could go back to the beginning and its a diff page url than when you started. It had the ability to be shared and there wasnt anything to stop the sharing of that url cause for some reason they didnt code it to have to check its the original persons token to id them. 

[parsonjack]

15 hours ago, mph said:

Waiting room ? Everyone trying to get in pre sale would be worse for See than the system we all know

 

My guess is that it will be the same as usual 

Not so.  The way it works is that See automatically hand off customers to Queue-It, who direct them to virtual waiting rooms distributed across multiple data centres.  They can handle 100 million in waiting rooms apparently.... feeding them back to See at predetermined rates at sale start.

[parsonjack]

5 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

How can you transfer a Queue ID?

Click on the "Queue-It" branding at the bottom of the queue window....it should open another window that then allows you to copy the link as a URL and send it it someone else for them to paste into a browser.

[parsonjack]

3 hours ago, Bolivia95 said:

How does one use the Queue ID? Does it go in the URL? Just asking in case I need to share one with someone in our syndicate 

See post above ^

[CaledonianGonzo]

5 minutes ago, parsonjack said:

Click on the "Queue-It" branding at the bottom of the queue window....it should open another window that then allows you to copy the link as a URL and send it it someone else for them to paste into a browser.

 

Brilliant - cheers 

[LOWERCASE GUY]

The kendal calling presale this morning (on kendalcalling.seetickets.com) did not use the Queue-it system, but was hosted on the Akamai CDN servers. This could be viewed as making the use of Queue-it for glastonbury less likely. Of course kendal isn't anywhere near the same level of demand as glastonbury, but it was another opportunity for See to setup the queue and check it all runs okay, but they did not.

[Havors]

21 minutes ago, LOWERCASE GUY said:

The kendal calling presale this morning (on kendalcalling.seetickets.com) did not use the Queue-it system, but was hosted on the Akamai CDN servers. This could be viewed as making the use of Queue-it for glastonbury less likely. Of course kendal isn't anywhere near the same level of demand as glastonbury, but it was another opportunity for See to setup the queue and check it all runs okay, but they did not.

The http response headers have x-queueit-connector tag present for glasto seetickets...

 

So with 100 times more traffic it's still more likely to use the queue 

 

Also kendal doesn't sell out all their tickets they release in batches. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Havors

[LOWERCASE GUY]

7 minutes ago, Havors said:

The http response headers have x-queueit-connector tag present for glasto seetickets...

 

So with 100 times more traffic it's still more likely to use the queue 

 

Also kendal doesn't sell out all their tickets they release in batches. 

The x-queueit-connector tag is now present for absolutely every page on seetickets.com, even, for example, the customer service page, where I doubt they ever plan on running a queue.

 

If the queue is actually being implemented you can see it in the network log. The queue is still active for the Sam Fender sale, so if you go to: https://www.seetickets.com/event/sam-fender/co-op-live/3205068 (this is for the Manchester Friday date, but all other dates have the queue as well). Then you should see something like this:

 

 

This will give you the Queue-it cookies which grant access to the page for a set amount of time:

 

Any subsequent refreshes of the page don't go through the queue if the cookie is still valid.

 

If we see this sort of behaviour on glastonbury.seetickets.com before the sale, then that would strongly suggest the use of a queue.

 

I agree at this point the use of a queue, at least to me, is more likely than not, but probably not by much (maybe 60/40).

[parsonjack]

1 hour ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

 

Brilliant - cheers 

No worries.  For Fender it was this......