Ticket tips and Tricks for 2025 festival

[Crazyfool01]

Just a reminder the number of tickets hasn’t changed so anyone feeling a bit of doom and gloom today needs to remember that some on here will get them and very likely similar numbers to previous  . There may be a few extra people trying but they only have 6 days to register . Good luck all 

[Nobody Interesting]

3 minutes ago, Chrisp1986 said:

And those of us who don't can say we will just go to Bearded instead then realise the wife has booked A PISSING LODGE ON THAT WEEK TO PREVENT US FROM GOING.

I thought you were at a wedding

[CJL9494]

Just now, Nobody Interesting said:

 

Been like this for a long time.

In recent sales I definitely recall seeing a timer in the corner of the screen - whether that was doing anything under the hood is another thing altogether.

[Suprefan]

1 minute ago, TheDayman said:

I've said completely random a few times. To correct myself, no system is completely random.

 

For example, there have been suggestions that the recent Oasis ticket sale a large number of ticketing bots:

 

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/it-experts-say-huge-possibility-of-oasis-tickets-being-bought-by-bots-1667210.html

 

If there's truth in that, there's nothing to say Glasto won't face something similar

 

why wouldnt there be bots. And theres been bots used already with the old system. And yeah, people paid somebody to use a bot program to get tickets and it worked. So now you might see another uptick in that. And are Glastonbury going to actually be vigilent on any suspicious activity? Like I said, they shouldve waited. And Im wondering if the drama from last sale pushed them over the edge cause of the exploit.

[Ayrshire Chris]

30 minutes ago, TheDayman said:

 

You'll both have the same external IP address. If the announcement is to be believed, only one device (on that network) should work

They use the word ‘may’ harm your chances not ‘will’. Read into that what you want. 

[Nobody Interesting]

1 minute ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

They use the word ‘may’ harm your chances not ‘will’. Read into that what you want. 

 

We use mobile hotspot for internet and the IP addresses are random and normally have no idea where we actually live often coming up with places 100 miles away.
I am guessing it will not know there are more than one device on our hotspot as IP addresses will be different.

[incident]

Just now, uscore said:

Is a queuing system, with massive spike at 9am-ish,  easier on their system rather than everyone f5ing every second for a couple of hours?

 

Infinitely so.

 

Not least because the queue is external to See - it sits on the Akamai platform (which should in theory be able to cope with insane levels of demand), and the session is only passed to See when someone gets through. So the only traffic the See systems will actually get will be the ~40,000 or so sessions needed to sell all the tickets, filtering through evenly at a pre-determined rate.

[danbailey80]

24 minutes ago, TheDayman said:

Is completely random better for the festival?

I think a large part of what makes Glastonbury so special is the community that has been the guardians of its ethics over the years. "Love The Farm, Leave No Trace", "Don't Pee on the Land", etc.

By making tickets completely random, the knock-on is that you dilute this incredibly important community and the message they fly for the festival.

 

Agree.

 

There was a clear parallel between how much you wanted to go and the likelihood of getting a ticket.

 

In general the more you cared enough to try/ research tips and discuss (i.e. the more of a fanatic you are) the more chance you got of tickets. 

 

Now anyone that isn't that fussed either way will get a ticket. 

 

I think it could change the vibe of the main areas, particularly Pyramid/ Other (Green fields for example will hold its own as lots of regular workers there). 

 

 

 

 

 

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, danbailey80 said:

 

Agree.

 

There was a clear parallel between how much you wanted to go and the likelihood of getting a ticket.

 

In general the more you cared enough to try/ research tips and discuss (i.e. the more of a fanatic you are) the more chance you got of tickets. 

 

Now anyone that isn't that fussed either way will get a ticket. 

 

I think it could change the vibe of the main areas, particularly Pyramid/ Other (Green fields for example will hold its own as lots of regular workers there). 

 

 

 

 

 

But as mentioned previously it seems a large and ever increasing number were getting them via the hack method which would do the exact same thing … this takes out that option 

[THEBOILERMAN]

The big difference for large organised groups is once you got in and managed to buy your groups 6 tickets you will need to log in again and as its after 9am go to the back of the queue, unlike in the previous system where you just logged in and F5`d with as much chance as someone who hadn`t got in yet.

[rob.a]

3 minutes ago, danbailey80 said:

There was a clear parallel between how much you wanted to go and the likelihood of getting a ticket.

 

In general the more you cared enough to try/ research tips and discuss (i.e. the more of a fanatic you are) the more chance you got of tickets. 

 

i don't agree with that. I think it has been more to do with how large a group you have been in and how much you are willing to trust ticket syndicates (and in cases randoms off the internet)

[belfast]

1 minute ago, THEBOILERMAN said:

The big difference for large organised groups is once you got in and managed to buy your groups 6 tickets you will need to log in again and as its after 9am go to the back of the queue, unlike in the previous system where you just logged in and F5`d with as much chance as someone who hadn`t got in yet.

Good point 

[drunk pumpkin]

If it removes the back door access and the paying for cyber hacks to get in through unfair means then its a good thing I suppose. The volume of people trying has always been a huge challenge for very popular concerts. Oasis being the last painful experience for many. 

 

I'll be there on Sunday trying and hoping as I always have been. 

 

Ultimately I feel it still comes down to total luck on the day.

 

So good luck to us all!

[Crazyfool01]

Queue here to complain sale process isn’t as good as it used to be 

[incident]

1 minute ago, drunk pumpkin said:

If it removes the back door access and the paying for cyber hacks to get in through unfair means then its a good thing I suppose.

 

To be fair, they'd already quite firmly slammed that door after last years main sale. This won't make any difference to that -  hell, in theory it could introduce a new hole (probably not, but no way to know for sure until it's live).

[CaledonianGonzo]

Anyone know why there's no waiting room and what - if any - difference it might make?

[belfast]

Just now, Crazyfool01 said:

Queue here to complain sale process isn’t as good as it used to be 

Why would they listen to complaints re something that hasnt even happened yet?

[incident]

Just now, CaledonianGonzo said:

Anyone know why there's no waiting room and what - if any - difference it might make?

The screenshot shows a waiting room? Just that you automatically enter it rather than an explicit "click to join".

[giantkatestacks]

The 21 year old is actually happy about this - thinks its much fairer. I think that a lot of fairweather festivallers will put their tix back in the pot after the line-up and there will be more churn and more resale. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

3 minutes ago, incident said:

The screenshot shows a waiting room? Just that you automatically enter it rather than an explicit "click to join".

 

Ah - gotcha. So if the page itself is the waiting room when will it go live?

[Padgey]

Placed 89,367 in the queue, you get in and you see

"In Demand Tickets" £747 + £10 booking fee

[William Mann]

Are there any groups with room for 2 more? Thank you!

[CJL9494]

Get them in the HMV again

[CantWaitForGlasto22]

2 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

 

Ah - gotcha. So if the page itself is the waiting room when will it go live?

If it’s like the Sam fender one it will go live at 9 and then the green bar will slowly creep across and then finally let you in once tickets have sold out 😭

[Crazyfool01]

9 minutes ago, belfast said:

Why would they listen to complaints re something that hasnt even happened yet?

was tongue in cheek 🙂