Ticket tips and Tricks for 2025 festival

[Nobody Interesting]

51 minutes ago, tickleyt said:

With all due respect, if you'd had any experience using these groups you'd probably think quite differently. 

They will 100% get custom and they're definitely not scammers. Even if the entire group only get 30 queue slots that are saleable (they will almost definitely get more), thats over £30k in "finders fees" for a few hours work.

 

I think that touts only give 'guaranteed refunds' if they are trying to scam people and those offering their services for money in this way are just touts adjusting to new ticketing systems.

[dotdash79]

27 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

im such a mess of nerves I can barely remember the day of the week once starts ... let alone order of progress 🙂 

 

I say once you have a session you can jump between days. 
 

at least that’s what happened with Sam fender

Edited 4 hours ago by dotdash79

[Nobody Interesting]

11 minutes ago, Avalon_Fields said:

When might we expect Glastonbury.seetickets.com will go live? (I know it shouldn’t make any difference if you join early or late). 
 

Reason I’m asking is I’m very familiar with a large French annual sports online system, they claim it’s random but it doesn’t always work that way, it allows you to join the queue hours before the sale time and the earlier you join the better the queue position to at least some degree.

 

Isn't it live all the time but just reroutes to /content/extras when there is nothing going on. Until now that is where it has taken you at 8.59 and 59 seconds on main Ticket Day.

[Beerqueen]

While of course I will be trying my utmost for both coach and general sale, I am sort of resigned to not going.  Gutted.

 

Will be looking at what other festivals take place in June/July.

[parsonjack]

10 minutes ago, Avalon_Fields said:

When might we expect Glastonbury.seetickets.com will go live? (I know it shouldn’t make any difference if you join early or late). 
 

Reason I’m asking is I’m very familiar with a large French annual sports online system, they claim it’s random but it doesn’t always work that way, it allows you to join the queue hours before the sale time and the earlier you join the better the queue position to at least some degree.

For the recent Sam Fender sales I think the "waiting room" went live about 15 mins before the sale commenced but given expected demand it could be earlier for the Glastonbury sales....30 minutes or even 1 hour.

 

Looking at the official announcement detail we can be pretty confident it will at least be more than 7 mins 52 seconds though!

 

There will almost certainly be no advantage to getting in the waiting room early, but might nevertheless be advisable to do so in case of any bottlenecks nearer to sale start time.

[Ayrshire Chris]

38 minutes ago, Mardy said:

Hahaha, was just pondering religious parallels.

 

yoid the think the Eavii, being Methodists and that, would put a premium on hard work, on the ceaseless toil that is hammering away at the F5

 

whereas this queue and the chosen ones allowed to enter the gates of heaven before they do  anything, and it all being decided arbitrarily, well it all stinks of predestination and has the stench of Popery about it! 

Doesn’t the bible say something like ‘Tis easier for a poor man to pass through the green gates of Glasto than a rich man to enter through the hospitality entrance’

sure it’s something ike that😉

[CaledonianGonzo]

Presumably if you're trying on more than one device you shouldn't be logging into SeeTickets beforehand on more than one of them?

[airwaves]

4 hours ago, TheDayman said:

It's the modern day equivalent of queuing up overnight outside the music store.

No it's not!

If that was the way there would be people starting to physically q days before ticket sale starts.

FFS, there are people with Last Night of the Proms tickets who q for days just to be on the front row! 

But for this I can't log-in days in advance to improve my chances. 

[Pinhead]

3 minutes ago, parsonjack said:

For the recent Sam Fender sales I think the "waiting room" went live about 15 mins before the sale commenced but given expected demand it could be earlier for the Glastonbury sales....30 minutes or even 1 hour.

 

Looking at the official announcement detail we can be pretty confident it will at least be more than 7 mins 52 seconds though!

 

There will almost certainly be no advantage to getting in the waiting room early, but might nevertheless be advisable to do so in case of any bottlenecks nearer to sale start time.

I can that pre-sale waiting room going to 'unavailable' pretty quickly after it's activated...

[dotdash79]

3 minutes ago, Pinhead said:

I can that pre-sale waiting room going to 'unavailable' pretty quickly after it's activated...

It won’t be as it’s a distributed workload so you will be accessing a page that’s local to your isp. 

[parsonjack]

7 minutes ago, Pinhead said:

I can that pre-sale waiting room going to 'unavailable' pretty quickly after it's activated...

It's a concern but the distributed nature of the virtual "waiting room" across multiple datacentres might just avoid that.  Given that they will still be the first point of contact See themselves may choose not to advertise the actual time the waiting room will go live to avoid a sudden surge of hits to then be redirected.

 

Ah no hang on....I think DNS will ensure that calls to See are redirected to Queue-It before they hit See while waiting rooms are being filled.

Edited 4 hours ago by parsonjack

[deadponyclub]

1 minute ago, parsonjack said:

It's a concern but the distributed nature of the virtual "waiting room" across multiple datacentres might just avoid that.  Given that they will still be the first point of contact See themselves may choose not to advertise the actual time the waiting room will go live to avoid a sudden surge of hits to then be redirected.

so it's F5, F5, F5 until the waiting room appears then!

[dotdash79]

Just now, parsonjack said:

It's a concern but the distributed nature of the virtual "waiting room" across multiple datacentres might just avoid that.  Given that they will still be the first point of contact See themselves may choose not to advertise the actual time the waiting room will go live to avoid a sudden surge of hits to then be redirected.

I expect to see the page being served from the cdn already, just that the queue isn’t active as the demand is low. 

[parsonjack]

3 minutes ago, dotdash79 said:

I expect to see the page being served from the cdn already, just that the queue isn’t active as the demand is low. 

I wonder how many of us would need to hammer it now to trigger it.... 🤔

[CaledonianGonzo]

All this stress just to see Eminem

[Mash2]

One minor process question for the coach sale. Where will they be asking for the day you wish to travel (Weds/Thurs)? Before or after the Queue/Waiting room? i.e. if one day is full, can I try another without have to back to Queue hell?

 

[incident]

10 minutes ago, Mash2 said:

One minor process question for the coach sale. Where will they be asking for the day you wish to travel (Weds/Thurs)? Before or after the Queue/Waiting room? i.e. if one day is full, can I try another without have to back to Queue hell?

 

 

We don't know.

 

I'd guess after, others might guess before. Ultimately (unless they issue a clarification) we may not find out until 5:45ish on Thursday next week.

[belfast]

Can you use multiple devices in the queue before 9am or will it automatically throw both to the back of the queue for using two devices on one link?

[briddj]

44 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Presumably if you're trying on more than one device you shouldn't be logging into SeeTickets beforehand on more than one of them?

 

Really important to this and the previous points. 

 

You do NOT need a See Tickets account to buy Glastonbury tickets. 

 

Therefore, you WON'T need to be signed in.

 

It's purely based on registrations.

[CaledonianGonzo]

1 minute ago, briddj said:

 

Really important to this and the previous points. 

 

You do NOT need a See Tickets account to buy Glastonbury tickets. 

 

Therefore, you WON'T need to be signed in.

 

It's purely based on registrations.

 

Does not help expedite a transaction though?

[incident]

1 minute ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

 

Does not help expedite a transaction though?

 

Only on www.seetickets.com (and maybe a couple other variants of the main site), but not on glastonbury. or most of their other white label sites.

Edited 4 hours ago by incident

[airwaves]

1 hour ago, Pinhead said:

Effectively selling the queue position rather than the physical ticket, but still another modern form of touting isn't it? Is it possible this operation could account for the greater part of the actual operating queue during the sale?

When the Led Zeppelin O2 reunion show tickets were sold you first had to get an "access code", effectively through a random ballot, and use that when purchasing tickets. Ticket resale was specifically banned. But the small print failed to ban sale of access codes. 

There was a goodly market in the sale of codes. 

I know, because I bought a code, for £100 (which turned out to be, in hindsight, very cheap) from someone in the USA. 

And it worked. Got a pair of tickets for the gig. 

[jjgnorkett]

I appreciate this is guesswork, but would anyone have a reasonable guess at how many devices/browsers you could utilise on a private home wifi without triggering bot detection on your IP? I know they are advising just the one connection but that seems very unreasonable for those living in shared accommodation etc. and possibly other technical reasons 

 

[Sasperella2]

3 hours 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. 

You can sell queue slots???

[thatTFBguy]

I expected a meltdown on here at this news but the hysteria over selling queue spots is a level beyond!