Ticket tips and Tricks for 2025 festival

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1 hour ago, Ricci's Special Kebabs said:

Day>Departure Point > Reg

 

Sorry, but that's flat out incorrect and I have to assume you're deliberately trying to trip people up. I have copies of the pages from a couple years ago saved, so I'm not going from memory here:

 

 

You can see that drop down for the Departure Point comes after the reg details are already "locked in", which wouldn't be possible if it worked the way you're suggesting.

[El Scorcho]

Hypothetical question... Say tomorrow's sale is an absolute disaster for SeeTickets new system (Oasis esque issues) do they have enough time / an alternative they can pivot to in time for Sunday's sale? Or do they just go into Sunday knowing the system will break again.

[William Mann]

3 minutes ago, El Scorcho said:

Hypothetical question... Say tomorrow's sale is an absolute disaster for SeeTickets new system (Oasis esque issues) do they have enough time / an alternative they can pivot to in time for Sunday's sale? Or do they just go into Sunday knowing the system will break again.

They would probably postpone, like they did last year (for different reasons). But let's be honest... SEE don't care!

Edited 18 hours ago by William Mann

[clasher]

I've been going through the ticket sales FAQ on the website a bit more thoroughly.

 

They state that "tickets are not allocated until your payment has been processed", but then also "...as any orders which cannot be processed will be released back to sale".

 

Is it just me, or is that a bit contradictory?

(I suppose they allocate your tickets once you click "buy tickets" on the checkout page and return them if the payment doesn't go through, but still... bit awkwardly put)

[AndyL16]

5 minutes ago, El Scorcho said:

Hypothetical question... Say tomorrow's sale is an absolute disaster for SeeTickets new system (Oasis esque issues) do they have enough time / an alternative they can pivot to in time for Sunday's sale? Or do they just go into Sunday knowing the system will break again.

Don’t see them having an alternative plan b. More likely that IF tomorrow is a disaster/something goes wrong. They will just postpone and reschedule the General Sale 

[stuie]

5 minutes ago, El Scorcho said:

Hypothetical question... Say tomorrow's sale is an absolute disaster for SeeTickets new system (Oasis esque issues) do they have enough time / an alternative they can pivot to in time for Sunday's sale? Or do they just go into Sunday knowing the system will break again.

 

Even Seetickets developers can't be bad enough to not be able to do a rollback in 3 days! 

 

Can't see that happening though. 

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Just now, El Scorcho said:

Hypothetical question... Say tomorrow's sale is an absolute disaster for SeeTickets new system (Oasis esque issues) do they have enough time / an alternative they can pivot to in time for Sunday's sale? Or do they just go into Sunday knowing the system will break again.

 

Difficult to say for sure exactly how they would see the options, but:

 

They probably would be able to use the new Akamai system as a "regular" load balancer that worked in much the same way as the old one, but I don't know how much reconfiguration that'd entail - and depending on exactly what went wrong even whether it'd be desirable to them.

 

They may or may not have time to re-instate the Azure load balancer system that they've used for the last couple years, and doing so may or may not carry a cost. How viable that one will be is unknown to us, but someone at See will have a better grasp.

 

They could certainly turn off the queue, and have everyone hit the servers directly with no proper load balancing (as was normal until a few years ago). But that carries a serious risk of servers getting overloaded again.

 

Tbh - Akamai can handle the capacity. I'm not expecting this to go wrong.

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1 minute ago, clasher said:

I've been going through the ticket sales FAQ on the website a bit more thoroughly.

 

They state that "tickets are not allocated until your payment has been processed", but then also "...as any orders which cannot be processed will be released back to sale".

 

Is it just me, or is that a bit contradictory?

(I suppose they allocate your tickets once you click "buy tickets" on the checkout page and return them if the payment doesn't go through, but still... bit awkwardly put)

 

For "allocated", read "guaranteed". Just a slightly wrong choice of words.

[Someoni]

Anyone else roping in parents outside of Europe for this Sundays fun? I will laugh if they are the ones who get tickets for us

[AndyL16]

6 minutes ago, incident said:

Tbh - Akamai can handle the capacity. I'm not expecting this to go wrong.

Yeah this is the thing, it depends on what the original poster of the question considers an “absolute disaster” - it’ll handle the traffic no problem and from reading posts by users far more in the loop than me regarding the tech stack, the bot detection system should work really well as well.
 

My biggest fear is there is issues checking out or kicking sessions out and throwing people back in the queue. This did happen in the last two big tickets sales (fender/oasis) 

 

edit: and yesterday with the LFC ticket sale, members having sessions terminated.

Edited 17 hours ago by AndyL16

[Ayrshire Chris]

10 minutes ago, Someoni said:

Anyone else roping in parents outside of Europe for this Sundays fun? I will laugh if they are the ones who get tickets for us

No,but I’m roping in my daughters help who is in New Zealand! 

[Ricci's Special Kebabs]

20 minutes ago, incident said:

 

Sorry, but that's flat out incorrect and I have to assume you're deliberately trying to trip people up. I have copies of the pages from a couple years ago saved, so I'm not going from memory here:

 

 

You can see that drop down for the Departure Point comes after the reg details are already "locked in", which wouldn't be possible if it worked the way you're suggesting.

My apologies, I stand corrected.
 

What happens if you lock in the registrations and the destination doesn’t have enough remaining tickets. For example if you have 6 registrations and only 4 tickets available?

 

Also is it possible to change the registration details once submitted? 

[Crazyfool01]

13 minutes ago, Someoni said:

Anyone else roping in parents outside of Europe for this Sundays fun? I will laugh if they are the ones who get tickets for us

Sadly beyond cabable now … which in some way is a question we all pose for all helpers inducted . Is that helper gonna accidentally block you or will they pull out the miracle buy … dilemmas 

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1 minute ago, Ricci's Special Kebabs said:

My apologies, I stand corrected.
 

What happens if you lock in the registrations and the destination doesn’t have enough remaining tickets. For example if you have 6 registrations and only 4 tickets available?

 

Also is it possible to change the registration details once submitted? 

 

The drop downs on that page only offer you departure points where there's the correct number of tickets available - so all those drop downs are a choice between "0" and "4", nothing in between.

 

Can't change a registration without going back to the reg form - which to my mind carries a substantial risk.

[Someoni]

22 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

No,but I’m roping in my daughters help who is in New Zealand! 

I've tried to explain it all to my Dad in Istanbul, he didn't really understand but registered for Glastonbury himself. What a legend. I hope it him that gets them! It'll be hilarious if he gets himself a ticket too.

[Someoni]

20 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

Sadly beyond cabable now … which in some way is a question we all pose for all helpers inducted . Is that helper gonna accidentally block you or will they pull out the miracle buy … dilemmas 

My old man is pushing 70 but had a lifetime of software developing so I'm hoping for the best to be honest. 

 

If anyone can get it done, it's my fully on the spectrum old man

[Mish1268]

45 minutes ago, Someoni said:

Anyone else roping in parents outside of Europe for this Sundays fun? I will laugh if they are the ones who get tickets for us

Well they are in the UK but was very tempted to ask my 91 year old dad to help just for the crack!he would try as well!

[CantWaitForGlasto22]

Yep I’ve recruited my parents (75) to help too. Said they should just call it they get through so I can help them through it. That would be a stressful 10 mins. Also my best friend helping who then decided to register herself and her husband too after YEARS of me trying to persuade them to come 🙌🙌🙌

[Stokesy10]

Hi!

 

Is this every single coach departure point, or is it just an example list? For example, might Coventry be an option for ticket and coach tomorrow?

 

Some friends getting a little confused - I think this list is it, and they're getting mixed up with a general National Express Coventry to Glastonbury offer (not including ticket).

 

TIA

[Crazyfool01]

12 minutes ago, Stokesy10 said:

Hi!

 

Is this every single coach departure point, or is it just an example list? For example, might Coventry be an option for ticket and coach tomorrow?

 

Some friends getting a little confused - I think this list is it, and they're getting mixed up with a general National Express Coventry to Glastonbury offer (not including ticket).

 

TIA

yep thats it for see ticket and coach packages .... national express won't get you a festival ticket 

[HenryH]

Hi, first time attempting glasto tickets, assuming I will be unsuccessful. Have see a few sites that claim to have hospitality tickets. One site, Premier events quoted me a price I would be prepared to pay, but after reading Glasto’s advice on tickets, thinking it’s a scam. Are these companies known for being dodgy? Because all other reviews of them online seem legit.

[Lucy92]

1 minute ago, HenryH said:

Hi, first time attempting glasto tickets, assuming I will be unsuccessful. Have see a few sites that claim to have hospitality tickets. One site, Premier events quoted me a price I would be prepared to pay, but after reading Glasto’s advice on tickets, thinking it’s a scam. Are these companies known for being dodgy? Because all other reviews of them online seem legit.

There are a very small handful of legit ones, but most are a scam. 

[Lucy92]

Right, I’ve come out of hiding to finally start thinking about tickets this week. What have I missed? 🤣

[The Other Steve]

4 minutes ago, Lucy92 said:

Right, I’ve come out of hiding to finally start thinking about tickets this week. What have I missed? 🤣

52 pages 🤣

[Crazyfool01]

4 minutes ago, Lucy92 said:

Right, I’ve come out of hiding to finally start thinking about tickets this week. What have I missed? 🤣

`a 52 page bedtime story .... good luck