Ticket tips and Tricks for 2025 festival

[belfast]

2 minutes ago, giantkatestacks said:

I am really riled by this - what is wrong with the world? Although theoretically people shouldn't mind this as they don't mind the back-of-the vanners either.

Yep, too much time on their hands (ironic as spent a ton of time researching how to get tickets easier i know😅)

[tickleyt]

2 minutes ago, belfast said:

Special place in hell for these folk

It can be combatted if Glastonbury choose to entirely hide your queue positioning, but I think this would cause a lot more frustration as people could miss their slot if they look away for a few minutes, or sit on the queue for hours and hours and never get through as their position was way beyond what was likely to have a chance anyway. 

This system is de-facto a ballot anyway, it just requires you to log on at 8.55am and manually complete the purchase, but creates the opportunity to sell queue positions, meaning a ballot would actually be fairer and wouldn't allow tickets to be sold to the highest bidder. 

The original system should have stuck, and I say that as someone with a 3/11 success rate. 

[MilkyJoe]

5 minutes ago, Bobs said:

 

 

From a selfish perspective, I'm seeing this as a huge plus. It means 6 of us can have a crack at breaking the code. 

 

 

 

 

6 of you had a chance before though. And you each got several hundred throws of the dice. Now you only have 6...

[discgoesmic]

5 minutes ago, MilkyJoe said:

6 of you had a chance before though. And you each got several hundred throws of the dice. Now you only have 6...

This sums up the entire change to the system. Your fate is decided the minute you're assigned a queue number.

[Ayrshire Chris]

33 minutes ago, Quacky Mouse said:

Feel like pure sh*t just want to press f5

On the day I’ll need to tape over it to resist the temptation to press it. 

[belfast]

Just now, Ayrshire Chris said:

On the day I’ll need to tape over it to resist the temptation to press it. 

Imagine the annoyance if you forget yourself

[Ayrshire Chris]

1 minute ago, belfast said:

Imagine the annoyance if you forget yourself

[Suprefan]

52 minutes ago, incident said:

 

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).

 

oh theres a hole but its too late now

[Crazyfool01]

 

[Quacky Mouse]

The pre-annoyed levels are reaching overdrive.

 

The leadup to the Oasis ticket sale was unbearable due to being so pre-annoyed about not getting tickets and the Wonderwall massive all banging on about it and wanting to go. Thankfully it was a good outcome, but I'm already pre-annoyed about not getting Glastonbury tickets.

 

Just have to hope the half-interested morons who can't be bothered to wait all drop from the queue.

[belfast]

Just now, Quacky Mouse said:

The pre-annoyed levels are reaching overdrive.

 

The leadup to the Oasis ticket sale was unbearable due to being so pre-annoyed about not getting tickets and the Wonderwall massive all banging on about it and wanting to go. Thankfully it was a good outcome, but I'm already pre-annoyed about not getting Glastonbury tickets.

 

Just have to hope the half-interested morons who can't be bothered to wait all drop from the queue.

Big time. Just wish it was this weekend to get it over with

[Bobs]

13 minutes ago, MilkyJoe said:

6 of you had a chance before though. And you each got several hundred throws of the dice. Now you only have 6...

 

6 of us never had any joy - despite every trick off here.

 

At this stage, again from a totally selfish perspective, I think this works for me.

 

But only because I find the previous version frustrating as he'll- and yes, I had experiences of getting kicked on booking page etc before, so no system is perfect.

[Yokel Again]

Yep, the random queue generator thingy essentially now deciding your chances of going.

 

 

Unlikely to get on again for the rest of a wider group.

[belfast]

As someone only in a group of 2 this probably isnt the worst outcome since people cant be in large groups and repeatedly book 6 tickets at a go. 

 

Hard to know how to feel about it 

[Dg_vic]

28 minutes ago, tickleyt said:

Loads of good insight here, but a couple of points from me, having used bots in the past to automate purchases. 

1. IF they assign queue numbers or even give you an idea as to how far along in the queue you are, people will be selling their queue positions almost immediately once tickets go on sale. Glastonbury is one of the few events where demand massively exceeds supply and tickets are *almost* un-saleable for profit on the secondary market. I know of people utilising bots, scripts and more to increase their chances for previous sales, and also know of people selling these tools in order to help others increase their chances. I'm confident that selling queue slots on the morning of the sale will be very popular and very profitable too, so don't be surprised when this happens and therefore has a knock-on effect on the demographic attending the festival. Basically if you've got the money and desperately want to attend, jump on twitter on sunday morning and you'll easily end up with tickets, but probably closer to a dynamic pricing level of cost!

2. You can no longer help people outside your group of 6 purchase tickets, as it will put you to the back of the queue once you've purchased/refreshed etc. This means a lot of the larger groups/syndicates will theoretically have a lesser chance of getting tickets, but not sure I'm totally correct here. 

 

I am not convinced that number 2 is correct.

 

For both Coldplay and Sam Fender recently (AXS and seetickets respectively, I believe they both use Queue-It) once I was through the queue, I tried for 4 tickets, none available.  I reduced to 2 tickets, successful.  Once the purchase was complete, I was able to press back button to the initial purchase page and search for a further 2 tickets (also purchased successfully).   

 

It may be that there is a max purchase of 6 for glasto tickets, but I still predict some 'stickiness' as there was in the old system ONCE someone gets through the queue.  

[dingbat2]

Doesn't this still massively favour really large groups though? Suppose 10 groups of 6 people get together as a group, all 60 try for tickets and join the queue on Tday. The chances are that a few of the 60 (hopefully 10) will be sufficiently close to the front of the queue to be able to buy tickets, but the other 54 wont. Those 10 people can then get tickets for their group (or one of the other groups if there group has already bagged them) so massively increasing their chance of bagging tickets. Each person has a low chance of getting to the buying page individually but 10 of the 60 should get there, and then buy tickets for the whole group?

[Ricci's Special Kebabs]

1 minute ago, Yokel Again said:

Yep, the random queue generator thingy essentially now deciding your chances of going.

 

 

Unlikely to get on again for the rest of a wider group.

Lets face it, it not going to work properly on the day. There will be stories of people of being kicked out of their queue place and ending up at the back. 

 

At least with the previous system you had just the same chance of getting back to the booking screen. 

[Nobby's Old Boots]

43 minutes ago, Dan190984 said:

This is similar to the NFL uk tickets. I’ve been 180k in the queue before and purchased. 
 

There’s no way of knowing what’s ahead of you that might drop out for multiple reasons like multiple people from the same group who drop out once one is successful or multiple devices. 
 

edit: I also think this is sh*t and is going to be a pain in the ass when people get through and it crashes at payment and bumps you to the back of the queue a la Oasis

It's not really like the nfl - the queues are generally for more than 1 game, tickets are priced at different levels so lots of people will drop out if their choice of price/seats aren't available, and I don't think many people were buying 6 at a time.

At least if the queue number isn't on the screen it'll save people from giving up when they may have miscalculated or still had a chance.

That's about as positive as I can think for this outcome...

[belfast]

Just now, dingbat2 said:

Doesn't this still massively favour really large groups though? Suppose 10 groups of 6 people get together as a group, all 60 try for tickets and join the queue on Tday. The chances are that a few of the 60 (hopefully 10) will be sufficiently close to the front of the queue to be able to buy tickets, but the other 54 wont. Those 10 people can then get tickets for their group (or one of the other groups if there group has already bagged them) so massively increasing their chance of bagging tickets. Each person has a low chance of getting to the buying page individually but 10 of the 60 should get there, and then buy tickets for the whole group?

Yes it will but I suppose it means 60 people arent all bashing F5 with even greater chances of getting through. No doubt some will forget themselves and just prey F5 still might work and throw themselves to the start. 

 

Who knows really.

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, belfast said:

As someone only in a group of 2 this probably isnt the worst outcome since people cant be in large groups and repeatedly book 6 tickets at a go. 

 

Hard to know how to feel about it 

you still could get helpers .... and that would be as much advantage as the larger groups if they were just helping you . the queue makes it slightly easier to recruit people id say 

[MilkyJoe]

4 minutes ago, Bobs said:

 

6 of us never had any joy - despite every trick off here.

 

At this stage, again from a totally selfish perspective, I think this works for me.

 

But only because I find the previous version frustrating as he'll- and yes, I had experiences of getting kicked on booking page etc before, so no system is perfect.

If you feel it works for you then great. It's all subjective. Personally I haven't seen a booking page since 2016 and have only been able to go because I had 5 other people hitting refresh a thousand times. Now there's every chance all 6 of us will be so far down the queue at 9am that it takes that hanging on in there and being persistent chance away. As I say it's all subjective. We'll all either get tickets or we won't.

[belfast]

Just now, Crazyfool01 said:

you still could get helpers .... and that would be as much advantage as the larger groups if they were just helping you . the queue makes it slightly easier to recruit people id say 

As in they queue and enter on my behalf if they got through?

Edited November 5, 2024 by belfast

[discgoesmic]

31 minutes ago, tickleyt said:

Loads of good insight here, but a couple of points from me, having used bots in the past to automate purchases. 

1. IF they assign queue numbers or even give you an idea as to how far along in the queue you are, people will be selling their queue positions almost immediately once tickets go on sale. Glastonbury is one of the few events where demand massively exceeds supply and tickets are *almost* un-saleable for profit on the secondary market. I know of people utilising bots, scripts and more to increase their chances for previous sales, and also know of people selling these tools in order to help others increase their chances. I'm confident that selling queue slots on the morning of the sale will be very popular and very profitable too, so don't be surprised when this happens and therefore has a knock-on effect on the demographic attending the festival. Basically if you've got the money and desperately want to attend, jump on twitter on sunday morning and you'll easily end up with tickets, but probably closer to a dynamic pricing level of cost!

2. You can no longer help people outside your group of 6 purchase tickets, as it will put you to the back of the queue once you've purchased/refreshed etc. This means a lot of the larger groups/syndicates will theoretically have a lesser chance of getting tickets, but not sure I'm totally correct here. 

Interesting point - How would you go about selling your place in the queue? Can you somehow assign the QueueID to someone else or just buy tickets on their behalf? I would've thought it would be a massive scramble to arrange this when tickets sell out extremely quickly.

[Gnomicide]

29 minutes ago, tickleyt said:

2. You can no longer help people outside your group of 6 purchase tickets, as it will put you to the back of the queue once you've purchased/refreshed etc. This means a lot of the larger groups/syndicates will theoretically have a lesser chance of getting tickets, but not sure I'm totally correct here. 

 

There will be a lesser chance but only 17% less (per group). The one person who's got the tickets will need to rejoin the queue but the other 5 will still be waiting to get through, they can then try for another group.

 

Unless, of course, this happens 👇

 

Just now, Dg_vic said:

 

I am not convinced that number 2 is correct.

 

For both Coldplay and Sam Fender recently (AXS and seetickets respectively, I believe they both use Queue-It) once I was through the queue, I tried for 4 tickets, none available.  I reduced to 2 tickets, successful.  Once the purchase was complete, I was able to press back button to the initial purchase page and search for a further 2 tickets (also purchased successfully).   

 

It may be that there is a max purchase of 6 for glasto tickets, but I still predict some 'stickiness' as there was in the old system ONCE someone gets through the queue.  

 

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, belfast said:

As in they queue and enter on my behalf if they got through?

yep as long as they have the details they need and payment