Ticket tips and Tricks for 2025 festival

[Field Commander Jefferson]

Do people think the new system will encourage more or fewer people to try on the day?

 

 

 

[Memory Man]

Id say about the same trying. One thing the queue hasnt changed is people in big groups still have a much better chance.

 

also now the backdoor hacks are closed you could more easily accept failure, knowing it was essentially fair.

[Toilet Duck]

8 minutes ago, Field Commander Jefferson said:

Do people think the new system will encourage more or fewer people to try on the day?

 

 

 

Have a feeling it’ll be exactly the same. If registration wasn’t part of the process, there would certainly be a lot more random “ah sure I’ll give it a lash” folk involved on the day, but since you have to go to the bother of actually registering for the festival, those that were planning on trying via the old system, will do the same with this. New system wouldn’t have specifically encouraged me to register if I had never been bothered before, so it’s the same pool of potential buyers one way or another. 

[Field Commander Jefferson]

2 minutes ago, Toilet Duck said:

Have a feeling it’ll be exactly the same. If registration wasn’t part of the process, there would certainly be a lot more random “ah sure I’ll give it a lash” folk involved on the day, but since you have to go to the bother of actually registering for the festival, those that were planning on trying via the old system, will do the same with this. New system wouldn’t have specifically encouraged me to register if I had never been bothered before, so it’s the same pool of potential buyers one way or another. 

 

Yeah I think you're probably right on that.

 

You'd think the big change will be the casual 'take it or leave it' people won't be giving up after 5 mins of refreshing and will now just be able to sit the queue out.

 

 

 

 

[Ayrshire Chris]

7 minutes ago, Field Commander Jefferson said:

 

Yeah I think you're probably right on that.

 

You'd think the big change will be the casual 'take it or leave it' people won't be giving up after 5 mins of refreshing and will now just be able to sit the queue out.

 

 

 

 

Yes, I’d agree with that. There could be more folk who arnt going to the festival helping out friends and relatives.

 

imagine the meltdown when someone says they got tickets by constantly refreshing😉😉😊😊😊

[Toilet Duck]

10 minutes ago, Field Commander Jefferson said:

 

Yeah I think you're probably right on that.

 

You'd think the big change will be the casual 'take it or leave it' people won't be giving up after 5 mins of refreshing and will now just be able to sit the queue out.

 

 

 

 

Yep…though in our groups, there have been some that come with us and have never secured their own ticket. They’re online on t’day, but perhaps aren’t as obsessive as others (our two core groups are, but we have others that join us and it’s always been someone from the core 12 that got through). Maybe now with a level playing field, those we’ve been carrying for years will get lucky as they have feck all to do but login on time! 😁

[Avalon_Fields]

I may relive past ticket day experiences and have an unplugged keyboard I can press F5 to my heart’s content while I’m waiting in line, it’s not going to be the same without it

[Pinhead]

Think I'll just work it again if it doesn't work out. Concerned that the queue will be dominated by professional queue squatters that you have to be on their books in order to get a look in.

[dotdash79]

7 minutes ago, Pinhead said:

Think I'll just work it again if it doesn't work out. Concerned that the queue will be dominated by professional queue squatters that you have to be on their books in order to get a look in.

The sale will work too quick for that to be an issue.

[Woody-Club UK]

5 hours ago, Nobody Interesting said:

The 'waiting room' is the page you are on before it starts and when it starts you get plonked in the queue where you sit and wait........................ I suggest a fun playlist to take your mind off being able to nothing to get in apart from wait.

Maybe start with Kate Bush, Running up that Hill

Busy Doin’ Nothin’ by The Beach Boys

 

[Someoni]

A bit of info I've just spotted on reddit 

[Pinhead]

In other words a barrage of Layer 7 devices with behavioural inspection characteristics, but don't doubt that their protagonists understand these and will do their best to circumvent them.

[itschris]

6 minutes ago, Pinhead said:

In other words a barrage of Layer 7 devices with behavioural inspection characteristics

 

explain it in layman's terms, please?

[Crazyfool01]

5 minutes ago, itschris said:

 

explain it in layman's terms, please?

We are f**ked 😂

[CurlyPutz]

Missed out the last two years and getting very twitchy now. Good luck everyone and thanks for all the good info shared here too. 

[Gnomicide]

10 minutes ago, itschris said:

 

explain it in layman's terms, please?

 

If you follow the rules but get kicked from the queue because your housemate is trying to game the system, you are permitted to smack them about the head.

[charlierc]

6 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

We are f**ked 😂

 

 

[parsonjack]

49 minutes ago, Pinhead said:

In other words a barrage of Layer 7 devices with behavioural inspection characteristics, but don't doubt that their protagonists understand these and will do their best to circumvent them.

 

Loads of browsers or queue attempts coming from a single IP that could look to See like a tout or someone trying to game the system, but don't doubt said tout will know that and have other cards up their sleeves and strategies to attempt to get round it.

 

Pretty much....

[phillyfaddle]

So…what does “joining the queue” involve exactly. Is it just simply loading the glastonbury.seetickets.com page in your chosen browser? Then that page auto-updates to allocate you a place in the queue when the sale goes live at 9am? 

[doogie]

10 minutes ago, phillyfaddle said:

So…what does “joining the queue” involve exactly. Is it just simply loading the glastonbury.seetickets.com page in your chosen browser? Then that page auto-updates to allocate you a place in the queue when the sale goes live at 9am? 

 

I expect there will be a button to click on the glastonbury.seetickets.com page.

 

Should be simple enough, but the fun comes when you can't get that page to load.

 

[Pinhead]

2 hours ago, itschris said:

 

explain it in layman's terms, please?

The guy next to me at work spends his time configuring and monitoring similar devices from Palo Alto, Fortigate and such - they are very capable though I'm sure Akamai have considerably more expensive, sophisticated and capable distributed devices for this job. That said, the model the 'queue touters' use will look as natural and as normal as they can possiblly masquerade themselves as being in order to remain undetected and seemingly legitimate.

[Gnomicide]

57 minutes ago, doogie said:

 

I expect there will be a button to click on the glastonbury.seetickets.com page.

 

Should be simple enough, but the fun comes when you can't get that page to load.

 

 

No button, it automatically gives you a random place in the queue as sales open.

[CY 2019]

So when you see the 'all tickets allocated' message you can then F5/refresh as many times as you want?

[sokkovokna]

15 hours ago, doogie said:

Six and two would make more sense in terms of getting as many as possible in, but who's going to want to be in the group of two?

@BluePaul
 

You could solve that by not making groups at all.

 

Give all 8 persons a number.

 

If person 1 gets trough, he buys for person 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

If person 2 gets trough, he buys for person 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

...

If person 8 gets trough, he buys for person 8, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

 

This way everyone has an equal chance and no one had to be drawn beforehand in the unlucky group of two.

 

If you all are in direct communication you can quickly inform when one has tickets and everyone starts to try for the remaining two.

 

[Friendly Banter]

Let me make sure I understand this years ticket sale.

show up

 

wait

 

Nothing else? 

Edited yesterday at 05:55 AM by Friendly Banter