Ticket tips and Tricks for 2025 festival

[downtherabbithole]

one hack taken from Reddit:

1 - download Firefox 2 - install the Firefox Multi-Account Containers add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ 3 - before the sale on Sunday, manage your containers (use this link within Firefox: about:preferences#containers, or right click the new tab button and then manage containers) and set up a f**king lot of them, I would go for 100 (tech advice from a very knowledgeable person is that 200 is likely to be where you might get flagged as a bot, so anything below that should be safe) 4 - again, before the sale, open a new tab in every single one of your 100 containers (right click the new tab button at the top of Firefox and then choose a new container each time) 5 - open the Glastonbury ticket link in every single one of your open containers - https://glastonbury.seetickets.com/ 6 - as you paste the link in, just quickly check that your queue ID is different in every container (it should be, but no harm in being safe) 7 - when the sale starts, ctrl+tab through your different open containers constantly, noting which of your containers are nearly through, and then buy tickets when you get through!!!! I had exactly 100 containers open and 3 of them got to the front of the queue in time to buy tickets. There are roughly six times as many tickets on sale on Sunday, so ratio might be better, but just to give you an idea of the scale needed to make it work today. Once you have put registration details in, it IS safe to refresh if it tells you tickets are sold out. It may pop up asking you to confirm form resend (or similar), say yes, that is safe to do and it saves you having to re-input all the reg numbers for your group

Still think the new system is fairer?

Edited 2 hours ago by downtherabbithole

[Littlechef87]

My mate got our group's at 9:12, then I got them for second group at 9:26. Unfortunately didn't get group 3 on time but not a bad result considering for 2019 only 1 group out of 5 or 6 in our circle managed it! Quite like the new system but probably wouldn't be saying that if I didn't have a ticket sooooo 🤷‍♀️

[Crazyfool01]

2 hours ago, Drew3232 said:

Did anyone else get a message at 9:07 telling them that tickets were sold out?

Somehow and a few others did you got a local ticket sale tab … don’t ask me how 

[Paul ™]

Yup as expected the system is flawed, back to the drawing board for See and Glasto.

 

 

[st dan]

No wonder the demographic of the festival is getting younger and younger - there is clearly an advantage for those that are more tech savvy.

[JayBoogie]

I have a feeling the 'hackers' are going to clean up in the resale. Heard about three different sneaky manoeuvres already

[Unknown101]

Some talk of tickets brought with the same queue ID being cancelled and refunded - can anybody corroborate? May very well be bullshit

[mjtko]

12 minutes ago, downtherabbithole said:

one hack taken from Reddit:
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Still think the new system is fairer?

Urgh, how is this kind of behaviour not being flagged by Queue It.

 

Disgraceful.

[incident]

3 minutes ago, Unknown101 said:

Some talk of tickets brought with the same queue ID being cancelled and refunded - can anybody corroborate? May very well be bullshit

 

Even if true (which I'd be doubtful of, their past record has always been that even when they'd be justified taking action they don't), then it'd only affect people who were able to press "back" and get a second/third chance - not any of the other (to my mind far more problematic) holes that could be taken advantage of.

Edited 2 hours ago by incident

[incident]

2 minutes ago, mjtko said:

Urgh, how is this kind of behaviour not being flagged by Queue It.

 

Disgraceful.

 

Because the "bot detection" is shockingly poor.

[LSTx]

I have been sent multiple screenshots from my friend who is in one of these paid groups for bots that sell clothes etc. 

 

They made one for Glasto tickets this year, with a very good success rate. 

[briddj]

1 hour ago, MilkyJoe said:

what sort of time was that? did it go from 2 straight to 20?

 

He got into the booking page at 9.14, bought by 9.18.

 

Second screen was already in by 9.18, second set of 6 bought at 9.21.

[Fighter]

3 minutes ago, incident said:

 

Because the "bot detection" is shockingly poor.

bot detection system seems to be a whole new luck based hurdle to jump through

[Bobs]

Also heard from a friend (seen the screenshots( of them having a hack. Everyone in their group had tickets by 9:03.

 

V frustrating.

[briddj]

1 hour ago, redrog said:

If we must do this queuing system, they should make groups register their numbers to get in the queue so that you can’t have 50 machines. 

 

Then people would make 50 registrations with 50 email addresses. 

[Bobs]

8 minutes ago, mjtko said:

Urgh, how is this kind of behaviour not being flagged by Queue It.

 

Disgraceful.

 

Everything I use which has queue-it, has the same moans.

 

They're clearly not too bothered. I use it for football tickets, and there's always a pre-sale and ways to skip the queue.

 

It's a shame; but I guess i wouldn't be moaning if I'd had access.

[fraybentos1]

anyone else get through but get then got a 'local tickets sold out' page. Local tickets wtf??

[efcfanwirral]

2 minutes ago, fraybentos1 said:

anyone else get through but get then got a 'local tickets sold out' page. Local tickets wtf??

Yeah that happened to us too. Only one of our group who got close 

Edited 1 hour ago by efcfanwirral

[fraybentos1]

Just now, efcfanwirral said:

Yeah that happened to us too. Only one of our group who got anything 

did they get passed it or was it dead in the water soon as they got that page?

[efcfanwirral]

Just now, fraybentos1 said:

did they get passed it or was it dead in the water soon as they got that page?

Few things were tried but didn't lead anywhere 

[Flighty Zoo]

Adding my anecdotal evidence here. 
 

had laptop on WIFI and phone and iPad tethered to 4G. Laptop had chrome and safari. Just as the timer hit 3 seconds, I refreshed on Chrome and then my bar slowly progressed to 27 over 34 minutes. Weirdly I kept refreshing every minute and it’d move two places at a time. Other devices and browsers stuck on 2 the entire time. 
 

the furthest I got was on Chrome and by randomly refreshing. I was so close but by 9.44 they’d all gone. Genuinely confused by the whole thing cause I don’t know if refreshing just before the countdown hit zero and then occasionally refreshing made much difference, but all of my other devices and browsers were stuck on around 2-3 bars. If I was just 15 places or so ahead of where I was in the queue, I think I would’ve gotten through cause the bar was making steady progress. 

[Crazyfool01]

4 minutes ago, fraybentos1 said:

anyone else get through but get then got a 'local tickets sold out' page. Local tickets wtf??

Yep a few from what I can see on socials and in groups … glitch in the matrix somewhere 

[wicksy101]

33 minutes ago, downtherabbithole said:

one hack taken from Reddit:

1 - download Firefox 2 - install the Firefox Multi-Account Containers add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ 3 - before the sale on Sunday, manage your containers (use this link within Firefox: about:preferences#containers, or right click the new tab button and then manage containers) and set up a f**king lot of them, I would go for 100 (tech advice from a very knowledgeable person is that 200 is likely to be where you might get flagged as a bot, so anything below that should be safe) 4 - again, before the sale, open a new tab in every single one of your 100 containers (right click the new tab button at the top of Firefox and then choose a new container each time) 5 - open the Glastonbury ticket link in every single one of your open containers - https://glastonbury.seetickets.com/ 6 - as you paste the link in, just quickly check that your queue ID is different in every container (it should be, but no harm in being safe) 7 - when the sale starts, ctrl+tab through your different open containers constantly, noting which of your containers are nearly through, and then buy tickets when you get through!!!! I had exactly 100 containers open and 3 of them got to the front of the queue in time to buy tickets. There are roughly six times as many tickets on sale on Sunday, so ratio might be better, but just to give you an idea of the scale needed to make it work today. Once you have put registration details in, it IS safe to refresh if it tells you tickets are sold out. It may pop up asking you to confirm form resend (or similar), say yes, that is safe to do and it saves you having to re-input all the reg numbers for your group

Still think the new system is fairer?

You can also do this with chrome profiles

[themuel]

My main takeaway from this morning was that it was completely uninspiring. A total lottery which took away something and will very likely overhaul the demographic at the festival. 
 

I’ve decided to give the festival a rest for a few years so I wasn’t invested, but it felt different and not good different.  
 

I popped on to see if I got a place for friends who are still going - before anyone moans of me clogging up queues.  

[gsp8181]

27 minutes ago, incident said:

 

Because the "bot detection" is shockingly poor.

The bot detection is only running after the queue so it’s not flagging stuff like that