Ticket tips and Tricks for 2025 festival

[stuie]

1 hour ago, Avalon_Fields said:

Easiest way, in theory, to succeed is to get as many friends and family to separately, remotely try for your group. In the previous system this wasn't so good or easy because of all the F5'ing, multiple browsers etc, but all the helpers need to do is log on and if one of them gets through first, they key in the info. So a group of 6, with 2 helpers each = 18. Three times more likely to succeed than your average group of 6. Nine times more likely than a group of 2.

That sounds simple, but this could go on for hours and hours! There’s limits to what my friends and family will do for me and I couldn’t be confident of their efforts into the second hour of a queue screen 😂😂

 

Thursdays coach sale is going to be an absolute clusterf**k of Oasis proportions! Everyone trying Sunday will try Thursday too and people will still be looking at queues at midnight 

[Mish1268]

I am getting confused are we saying if my son is trying for his group and I am trying for mine from the same house, we will only be allowed one queue place? When I tried for oasis I had three laptops going with different queue numbers in each. 

[aj6658]

1 minute ago, Mish1268 said:

I am getting confused are we saying if my son is trying for his group and I am trying for mine from the same house, we will only be allowed one queue place? When I tried for oasis I had three laptops going with different queue numbers in each. 

it would be utterly mad for that to be the case. Any public building, any student houses or flat shares would be screwed. 

 

I think there will be stringent measures to stop bots and I they have said in the past that multiple devices harm your chances anyway

[efcfanwirral]

1 hour ago, Avalon_Fields said:

Just allocations within the UK:

Liverpool 75,000

Rest of England, Scotland, Wales 50,000

Belfast 1

🤣

This still works well for Liverpool, they have HUGE groups of friends there, if I go out and about with someone from there they know someone in every bar we go in. I'm lucky to have one team of 6, they have teams of dozens who'll keep going til they've got everyone's. 

[uscore]

6 minutes ago, Mish1268 said:

I am getting confused are we saying if my son is trying for his group and I am trying for mine from the same house, we will only be allowed one queue place? When I tried for oasis I had three laptops going with different queue numbers in each. 

 

This is not a guarantee but I absolutely guarantee that they won't block people using a few devices from the same household/ip address.  It makes no sense to rule out people in shared accommodation, large households, libraries/coffee shops etc

[Ayrshire Chris]

So now we know it’s happening we’re going to have a ‘how to access the Glasto ticket site’ tutorial with some trusted family and friends. From when to logon, how to carefully enter details, payment  etc, don’t refresh unless the all tickets allocated appears, what boxes to tick before confirming. A group all trying for our tickets. 
basically it’s just like buying a few more lottery tickets. 

[Chrisp1986]

23 hours ago, Nobody Interesting said:

I thought you were at a wedding

Ah no that has been called off now. So the lodge was booked in a panic instead.

[CharlotteB]

4 hours ago, incident said:

 

They never did really, that was something of a myth or a presumption.

 

The "bottleneck" was never really on the customer side, it was with the See servers so different internet connections were broadly equal or perhaps more accurately not always predictably advantageous - every year you'd get anecdotal stories of people trying and failing on their super high end home or work connection, but then popping the phone onto 3G and getting straight through. Not that a 3G mobile connection had an advantage either of course.

 

There would have been numerous factors at play in success chances and opining on them could get very dull - but for the most part connection speed would have only been a minor factor.

 

Ah, I see. I assumed it would've helped with refreshing. Never had to go through this, thank heavens 🙏 

[Avalon_Fields]

2 hours ago, stuie said:

That sounds simple, but this could go on for hours and hours! There’s limits to what my friends and family will do for me and I couldn’t be confident of their efforts into the second hour of a queue screen 😂😂

 

Why? If the system fails then anything could happen, but if it performs surely they will have at least the same capacity to process sales as before? It may even be quicker.

[Joey Peeps]

Why have they done this? I thought Emily had implied the old system was the fairest way of doing it, or something to that effect?