Ticket tips and Tricks for 2025 festival

[StoneCircle]

6 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

Maybe I wil try one joined after tomorrow to see what it does as I have enought devices to be able to potentially sacrifice one that way................ but one device gives one queue place so will not answer the question unless it gets in.

This is my intention, once I have saved an URL from an earlier session.

[Spindles]

On the queue page, right click, view source, search for expectedtime.

 

As others have mentioned, the information we don't have is whether this value changes as time progresses (I only looked at it the once and the tickets sold out a couple of minutes later).

[Nobody Interesting]

12 minutes ago, StoneCircle said:

 

As one of the Moderation Team I am aware of a post you made which was removed. Curious as to why you haven't joined the "legit company" instead of offering money to anyone who would get you a ticket? 

 

If you read the screen shot and take it literally all they are saying is 'become a member' then as a member you can see we have someone who has Seetickets links.

It does NOT say 'become a member and GET a working Seetickets link that will give you tickets' nor does it tell you how much they will want you to pay for any link.

Also if it is a Seetickets person then Seetickets will already know this is going on cos it seems to be being spread all over the internet and so wil easily track who in their system is accessing links. I wonder if the person knows they will need to look for a new job next week?

[MilkyJoe]

8 minutes ago, joshgardna said:

I'm not saying their Glasto link is legit - I'm saying I know they do discounts to festivals, as someone has previously commented on this thread 🙂 - I'll be trying the normal way!

 

They are legit by the sounds of it but that doesn't mean they are not scammers. I would be taking their claim of a ticket link with a very large bucket of salt though. Of course we will never know because anybody that gets scammed aren't going to admit it.

[StoneCircle]

5 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

 

If you read the screen shot and take it literally all they are saying is 'become a member' then as a member you can see we have someone who has Seetickets links.

It does NOT say 'become a member and GET a working Seetickets link that will give you tickets' nor does it tell you how much they will want you to pay for any link.

Also if it is a Seetickets person then Seetickets will already know this is going on cos it seems to be being spread all over the internet and so wil easily track who in their system is accessing links. I wonder if the person knows they will need to look for a new job next week?

 

The purpose of my post as a moderator was to highlight the users endorsement of the company to other members. I would hope everyone is aware it's a con as discussed earlier in the thread. 😂

[joshgardna]

2 minutes ago, MilkyJoe said:

 

They are legit by the sounds of it but that doesn't mean they are not scammers. I would be taking their claim of a ticket link with a very large bucket of salt though. Of course we will never know because anybody that gets scammed aren't going to admit it.

Yeah, I absolutely won't be doing it.

I was just highlighting about what they do with wider festivals. 
 

In See we trust!

[joshgardna]

1 minute ago, StoneCircle said:

 

The purpose of my post as a moderator was to highlight the users endorsement of the company to other members. I would hope everyone is aware it's a con as discussed earlier in the thread. 😂

I was in no way endorsing that link / that it works.

[Alvoram]

48 minutes ago, tarw said:

I’d have thought similar but not the same. 
One is based on the timer counting down to an estimated arrival time but does not take account of people in front leaving the queue. 
The other would be based on how many people were in front of you 

That time is based on people in front of you, hence why it recalculated and moved up and down throughout the session, depending how quickly those people were served. 

[MilkyJoe]

6 minutes ago, Alvoram said:

That time is based on people in front of you, hence why it recalculated and moved up and down throughout the session, depending how quickly those people were served. 

It did change then?

[Alvoram]

9 minutes ago, MilkyJoe said:

It did change then?

Yes, somebody was posting updates of how it was swinging, by hours at a time... 

[MilkyJoe]

3 minutes ago, Alvoram said:

Yes, somebody was posting updates of how it was swinging, by hours at a time... 

That's good. So it isn't predetermined then and remains flexible depending on how many are in front of you. Kind of like the arrival time on google maps if you take a shortcut.😊

[Spindles]

4 minutes ago, Alvoram said:

Yes, somebody was posting updates of how it was swinging, by hours at a time... 

That's the information I was looking for, I was just interested in the whole thing and the only reference I could find was single posts.

[Alvoram]

2 minutes ago, MilkyJoe said:

That's good. So it isn't predetermined then and remains flexible depending on how many are in front of you. Kind of like the arrival time on google maps if you take a shortcut.😊

Yeh,, also as they change the amount of people they let through / balance the load. 

I didn't take much notice at the time, mid sale, it wasn't something out of the ordinary. You'd expect the server to be calculathing things like to this for analytics and load balancing.

[incident]

Just now, Alvoram said:

Yeh,, also as they change the amount of people they let through / balance the load. 

I didn't take much notice at the time, mid sale, it wasn't something out of the ordinary. You'd expect the server to be calculathing things like to this for analytics and load balancing.

 

Yep. It's a vaguely interesting titbit for anyone who wants to delve into that level of detail.

 

Though ultimately can't see any way to learn more from it than we already get from the annoying progress bar, or utilise it in any practical way.

[Ayrshire Chris]

4 hours ago, GD1 said:

Have seen this. Is there any other rumours of a backdoor? 

[Jack.194]

10 minutes ago, incident said:

 

Yep. It's a vaguely interesting titbit for anyone who wants to delve into that level of detail.

 

Though ultimately can't see any way to learn more from it than we already get from the annoying progress bar, or utilise it in any practical way.

Edit: missunderstood

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Jack.194

[briddj]

1 hour ago, Spindles said:

The thing is, I was on the page an hour before, with the countdown timer.  I did not refresh at all and the page changed at 6pm to the progress bar, but the calculation was that I would wait 10 hours.  In what way is it a queue if people who were ALSO doing the same were allotted a time of 2 minutes.  It's not a queue but a random number generator in that case.

 

But it doesn't matter WHEN you join the waiting room, the QueueID is randomly assigned a place at 9am (or 6pm on Thursday). Being on the page an hour before did not mean you were first in the queue. 

 

You could be assigned 1 minute, 1 hour or 10 hours at 9am, regardless of when you went onto the waiting list.

 

The queue is only the queue at 9am. That's why it's a waiting room before 9am.

[danz026]

Off topic but didn’t think it deserved a new thread. I’m quite surprised next year is a fallow year given that the festival was only held once in the five year period from the end of the 2017 festival to the start of the 2022 one. Would have thought that period of inactivity would have made the ground good for another decade or so. 

[dotdash79]

3 minutes ago, briddj said:

But it doesn't matter WHEN you join the waiting room, the QueueID is randomly assigned a place at 9am (or 6pm on Thursday). Being on the page an hour before did not mean you were first in the queue. 

The Queue ID is assigned when you join the waiting room, but your place in the queue is assigned when it starts.

[briddj]

1 minute ago, danz026 said:

Off topic but didn’t think it deserved a new thread. I’m quite surprised next year is a fallow year given that the festival was only held once in the five year period from the end of the 2017 festival to the start of the 2022 one. Would have thought that period of inactivity would have made the ground good for another decade or so. 

 

The general consensus was it would be 2028 to coincide with Euro 2028, the 2026 suddenly was given as the year. I'm still not totally convinced it won't be 2028 in the end.

[briddj]

Just now, dotdash79 said:

The Queue ID is assigned when you join the waiting room, but your place in the queue is assigned when it starts.

 

That's what I said.

[Jack.194]

3 minutes ago, dotdash79 said:

The Queue ID is assigned when you join the waiting room, but your place in the queue is assigned when it starts.

Isn’t this all just speculation though? Do we know that for sure?

[Chrisp1986]

So after reading all this there is no tips or tricks except logging onto page before 9am and hoping for the best?

[danz026]

5 minutes ago, briddj said:

 

The general consensus was it would be 2028 to coincide with Euro 2028, the 2026 suddenly was given as the year. I'm still not totally convinced it won't be 2028 in the end.

Yes wasn’t the 2012 fallow year chosen because of too many portaloos being needed for the London Olympics?

 

Would be annoying if they take a fallow next year and then have to take another one due to the euros.

 

So hopefully they’re either confident that the portaloo situation can be worked around, or they scrap the 2026 fallow year and do 2028 instead. 

[El Scorcho]

1 hour ago, tarw said:

Looking at the first post you quoted they say that they had multiple devices all trying and got through on two of them. 
Not that they got through twice with the same device 

Yeah it was two different devices, no way of rejoining the queue once I purchased.