Ticket tips and Tricks for 2025 festival

[idb]

17 hours ago, rhyscork said:

Only one of our groups (out of 4) got tickets, they logged on from a mobile at 18:02! 

This is probably the most interesting snippet from the past few pages. Suggesting even joining after the sale has begun you have a change of being nearer to the front of the queue that those that joined at 18.00.

[incident]

1 minute ago, mjtko said:

As a professional cynic I remain sceptical of how truly random the queueing is and whether there are heuristics that could be being applied. It's irrelevant of course and the actual chances of getting through are almost certainly entirely down to luck.

 

Yeah - it's broadly true to say that computers don't "do" random - there'll certainly be some formula at play, creating a psuedo-random order.

 

But I don't think there's any chance it'll be as simple as being down to browser, connection type, queue joining time, or anything else that we could easily replicate with predictable success. Not wasting my time even trying to attack it from that perspective.

[incident]

2 minutes ago, idb said:

This is probably the most interesting snippet from the past few pages. Suggesting even joining after the sale has begun you have a change of being nearer to the front of the queue that those that joined at 18.00.

 

No, it suggests that one group that logged on at 18:02 got tickets. Nothing more nothing less.

[mjtko]

3 minutes ago, idb said:

This is probably the most interesting snippet from the past few pages. Suggesting even joining after the sale has begun you have a change of being nearer to the front of the queue that those that joined at 18.00.

Might not be the case, but if they had previously hit the waiting room and received a queue ID and then come back at 18:02 I feel like this could be plausible.

 

As cynical as I am, I can't imagine receiving a queue ID by joining after 18:00 and still getting through is actually a thing.

[incident]

3 minutes ago, mjtko said:

Might not be the case, but if they had previously hit the waiting room and received a queue ID and then come back at 18:02 I feel like this could be plausible.

 

f**ks sake, how did I miss that?

 

Yep, that's the likely answer.

[briddj]

I got in at 6.18 trying for friends, but couldn't buy anything. 

 

Now I'm worried I've used up my luck at getting through the queue, and I'll get nowhere on Sunday 

[assorted]

Does anyone know how to transfer queue position from one browser to another? I see queue id is stored in a cookie but that’s where my understanding ends. If possible would it have to happen in queue or can it happen on reg screen? I had 2 in my group who got in but had checkout issues and this knowledge may have saved us. 

[Nobody Interesting]

13 minutes ago, assorted said:

Does anyone know how to transfer queue position from one browser to another? I see queue id is stored in a cookie but that’s where my understanding ends. If possible would it have to happen in queue or can it happen on reg screen? I had 2 in my group who got in but had checkout issues and this knowledge may have saved us. 

I think it is as simple as copy and paste the URL

EDIT
IT is just this

https://support.queue-it.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306181-How-do-I-transfer-my-queue-position-from-one-device-to-another

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Nobody Interesting

[Ryan1984]

14 hours ago, fraybentos1 said:

What do you mean it put you in the queue at 5.30pm? Put you in the waiting room surely? Queue didn't open till 6

Yeah, the waiting room. Counted down from 30 mins.

[glast0gal]

40 minutes ago, briddj said:

I got in at 6.18 trying for friends, but couldn't buy anything. 

 

Now I'm worried I've used up my luck at getting through the queue, and I'll get nowhere on Sunday 

In this boat also.

[Nduja]

I'd have thought it takes significantly more compute to run any sort of weighted allocation of queue numbers based on criteria it fetches from the browser session vs it simply random at the point the sale begins, so that would tend towards it being random allocation but using pre-filtering to weed out unwanted connections before the sale takes place.

[assorted]

9 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

I think it is as simple as copy and paste the URL

EDIT
IT is just this

https://support.queue-it.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306181-How-do-I-transfer-my-queue-position-from-one-device-to-another

 

Thank you. Did you notice a url at the bottom of the page? I did not but wasn’t looking. (i only noticed my queue id in the waiting room which was not a link it was just a number) - And will this work once you are at reg screen? Our problems began after some new people got through. 
 

also what does this mean on the above website:

 

 it is very important to return back before your turn comes, so you don’t have to enter the queue again.

[uscore]

11 minutes ago, Nduja said:

I'd have thought it takes significantly more compute to run any sort of weighted allocation of queue numbers based on criteria it fetches from the browser session vs it simply random at the point the sale begins, so that would tend towards it being random allocation but using pre-filtering to weed out unwanted connections before the sale takes place.

I also don't see why they would give themselves that extra work of prioritising some people.  Kick obviously bad ones out, but don't complicate it needlessly. Otherwise you just make more potential for things to go wrong or variables to game.

Edited 2 hours ago by uscore

[uscore]

also why do SEE care about who gets the tickets?  As long as they sell them quickly and efficiently, and are spared any headlines about massive exploits or technical failures, job done.

[verrymerry]

My only tip is keep trying even if it says all tickets are allocated because managed to get two quite a bit after the festival had posted it was sold out

[Crazyfool01]

2 minutes ago, verrymerry said:

My only tip is keep trying even if it says all tickets are allocated because managed to get two quite a bit after the festival had posted it was sold out

Did your queue just remain active ? All ours quickly went to sold out message on the bottom and then closed 

[Nduja]

24 minutes ago, assorted said:

Thank you. Did you notice a url at the bottom of the page? I did not but wasn’t looking. (i only noticed my queue id in the waiting room which was not a link it was just a number) - And will this work once you are at reg screen? Our problems began after some new people got through. 
 

also what does this mean on the above website:

 

 it is very important to return back before your turn comes, so you don’t have to enter the queue again.

 

On some sales, e.g. the Liverpool ticket sale where they sell 29000 tickets for 10 games at the same time, the queue can run for several hours before a user can get in and buy their tickets. Obviously in that window, people can get distracted and lose their place. There's usually a jingle at the front of the queue but if you miss your slot you miss your slot.

[MilkyJoe]

3 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

Did your queue just remain active ? All ours quickly went to sold out message on the bottom and then closed 

The queue page remained active until around 18:43 though for me and it sold out at 18:33 so there's definitely a chance as long as the queue page remains there.

[acidstorm523]

7 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

Did your queue just remain active ? All ours quickly went to sold out message on the bottom and then closed 

As far as I understand it, getting to a final bar before it sold out, the queue it queue closes, but you haven’t been referred onto the Seetickets servers yet, you are still held in the cloud and the door to Seetickets is just shut,  so you have no chance as you aren’t even on there. If you got down to Seetickets registrations or further, then it is worth refreshing as in the past? 
 

edit - my queue remained active but not moving for 10 mins then went to sold out message on queue it. So I never got as far as Seetickets. 

Edited 2 hours ago by acidstorm523

[Crazyfool01]

2 minutes ago, acidstorm523 said:

As far as I understand it, getting to a final bar before it sold out, the queue it queue closes, but you haven’t been referred onto the Seetickets servers yet, you are still held in the cloud and the door to Seetickets is just shut,  so you have no chance as you aren’t even on there. If you got down to Seetickets registrations or further, then it is worth refreshing as in the past? 

That makes sense yep . Thanks 

[Ayrshire Chris]

Did anyone get the all tickets allocated message, before the final sold out message?  Didn’t attempt the sale as I wasn’t going for coach tickets 

[acidstorm523]

Just now, Ayrshire Chris said:

Did anyone get the all tickets allocated message, before the final sold out message?  Didn’t attempt the sale as I wasn’t going for coach tickets 

Straight to sold out on queue it. I think they did if you were on Seetickets servers..

[verrymerry]

12 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

Did your queue just remain active ? All ours quickly went to sold out message on the bottom and then closed 

I was already past trying to enter registration numbers, it kept saying all tickets allocated but if I clicked back eventually it let me enter them again

[Crazyfool01]

4 minutes ago, verrymerry said:

I was already past trying to enter registration numbers, it kept saying all tickets allocated but if I clicked back eventually it let me enter them again

got ya ... thanks 

[Nobody Interesting]

42 minutes ago, assorted said:

Thank you. Did you notice a url at the bottom of the page? I did not but wasn’t looking. (i only noticed my queue id in the waiting room which was not a link it was just a number) - And will this work once you are at reg screen? Our problems began after some new people got through. 
 

also what does this mean on the above website:

 

 it is very important to return back before your turn comes, so you don’t have to enter the queue again.

 

The last bit is don't go off making dinn er and miss your 10 minute slot.

The rest, and I am guessing is the main URL as the Queue ID is as you say just a number.

If that works then in theory you will be back in the booking screen as the system knows you are in your 10 mi ute window but until you do it it is guess work