Ticket tips and Tricks for 2025 festival

[danbailey80]

21 minutes ago, mjtko said:

 

1. I would try to log on to hit the pre-queue waiting room as early as possible; there is no evidence to show this helps, but at least you know you did everything you could. On Thursday the pre-queue waiting room opened about 1 hour before the sale and showed a countdown timer. I'd aim for 8am.

 

2. No need for multiple tabs; each tab will share the same queue ID. So I'd advise not to bother with multiple tabs as it'll only cause you possible hassle. Multiple browsers or separate browser sessions (i.e. incognito + non-incognito) appear to get separate queue IDs, but the effect on whether the system sees you more likely as a bot is unknown. Personally, I wouldn't risk it for the marginal advantage it might give you, but it's totally up to you.

 

3. There is no need to refresh once you are in the pre-queue waiting room and/or the actual queue. Instead of refreshing, you should utter some affirmations of patience and/or have a little pray to the Glasto gods while you're waiting for the green bar to grow. If your F5 finger needs something to do, you can refresh this site, which will almost certainly be having issues itself -- it was on Thursday!

 

4. There is no body of evidence that queueing on your phone is any better than queueing using any other kind of device, but I would definitely advise queueing on your phone on 4G/5G/whatever regardless in addition to whatever broadband/wifi device you might be using. That definite counts as a different queue ID and comes from a different IP address, which is definitely giving you another shot.

 

The very best of luck!

Thank you very much. Very helpful. 

[Alison C]

44 minutes ago, mjtko said:

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He is often out of the country and uses a uk revolt debit card with no problem. 

[mjtko]

1 minute ago, Alison C said:

He is often out of the country and uses a uk revolt debit card with no problem. 

Probs fine then. I think Revolut are pretty good when it comes to travel/international. It's "traditional" banks that have a tendency to have overzealous systems IME.

[Purple aki squat]

Does using a vpn help on a work laptop?

I really don’t understand this stuff at all.

any tips much appreciated, thanks 

[secondhandsausagedog]

14 minutes ago, Purple aki squat said:

Does using a vpn help on a work laptop?

I really don’t understand this stuff at all.

any tips much appreciated, thanks 

I honestly don't think it really improves anything, it has more chance of whatever detection they are using thinking your a bot, if it's a commonly used VPN. A work VPN would probably be fine.

[Brumbot]

Is it possible to reset your queue id by clearing your cookies and would there be any advantage to this? I suppose you wouldn't know the difference between a good place in the queue or a bad one if you're sat at 2 bars...

[incident]

4 minutes ago, Brumbot said:

Is it possible to reset your queue id by clearing your cookies and would there be any advantage to this? I suppose you wouldn't know the difference between a good place in the queue or a bad one if you're sat at 2 bars...

 

Yes and no respectively.

[StoneCircle]

1 hour ago, incident said:

 

Yes and no respectively.

 

I was in there from 5pm on 5g and WiFi from 5:30pm, never got past 8 bars on 5 g and 2 on WiFi. Yet people who joined the waiting room after 6pm got through, despite the warning they would be at the back of the queue. How can this be an actual queue? Bring back F5 please 😂

[clarkete]

57 minutes ago, StoneCircle said:

 

I was in there from 5pm on 5g and WiFi from 5:30pm, never got past 8 bars on 5 g and 2 on WiFi. Yet people who joined the waiting room after 6pm got through, despite the warning they would be at the back of the queue. How can this be an actual queue? Bring back F5 please 😂

There were many many people who didn't get anything like as far as 8 bars.

Was there a warning about the back of the queue?

What I saw was "When the ticket sale begins (at 6pm or 9am respectively) everyone already on the glastonbury.seetickets.com page will randomly be assigned a place in a queue to access the booking process"

[clarkete]

4 hours ago, Purple aki squat said:

Does using a vpn help on a work laptop?

I really don’t understand this stuff at all.

any tips much appreciated, thanks 

It depends if that laptop when using a vpn will give you another IP and another device.  Does it give you another queue position, or your just using a device you'd use over your home wifi but over the work vpn?

[clarkete]

5 hours ago, mjtko said:

 

1. I would try to log on to hit the pre-queue waiting room as early as possible; there is no evidence to show this helps, but at least you know you did everything you could. On Thursday the pre-queue waiting room opened about 1 hour before the sale and showed a countdown timer. I'd aim for 8am.

 

2. No need for multiple tabs; each tab will share the same queue ID. So I'd advise not to bother with multiple tabs as it'll only cause you possible hassle. Multiple browsers or separate browser sessions (i.e. incognito + non-incognito) appear to get separate queue IDs, but the effect on whether the system sees you more likely as a bot is unknown. Personally, I wouldn't risk it for the marginal advantage it might give you, but it's totally up to you.

 

3. There is no need to refresh once you are in the pre-queue waiting room and/or the actual queue. Instead of refreshing, you should utter some affirmations of patience and/or have a little pray to the Glasto gods while you're waiting for the green bar to grow. If your F5 finger needs something to do, you can refresh this site, which will almost certainly be having issues itself -- it was on Thursday!

 

4. There is no body of evidence that queueing on your phone is any better than queueing using any other kind of device, but I would definitely advise queueing on your phone on 4G/5G/whatever regardless in addition to whatever broadband/wifi device you might be using. That definite counts as a different queue ID and comes from a different IP address, which is definitely giving you another shot.

 

The very best of luck!

I presumably can't be the only person who has read very different advice, partially for point 1, but very very much so for point 2.

[MilkyJoe]

10 hours ago, secondhandsausagedog said:

2. When you say locked out at the booking page. Are you suggesting they were locked out because they were flagged or a loading error?

Flagged for suspicious activity. 

9 hours ago, Fighter said:

I can't imagine how gutted I'd be to get through to the end only to be blocked for suspicious activity 💀

It definitely happened to more than one person on thursday.

[MilkyJoe]

2 hours ago, clarkete said:

There were many many people who didn't get anything like as far as 8 bars.

Was there a warning about the back of the queue?

What I saw was "When the ticket sale begins (at 6pm or 9am respectively) everyone already on the glastonbury.seetickets.com page will randomly be assigned a place in a queue to access the booking process"

There was. From the Glastonbury ticket Info page.