Ticket tips and Tricks for 2025 festival

[ads1980]

I take it people had been selling services before Thursday around the use of bots? I’ve not read all the comments back in here but it sounds that way. Curious to know what the costs were. 

[MilkyJoe]

1 hour ago, Crazyfool01 said:

Festival cancels these it sends the message out and means the resale pot is bumped up nicely … although don’t think they will sadly 

Never going to happen. All the tickets sold out. Any cancellations would just be bad publicity so it will just be quietly forgotten about and maybe they'll work on making things more secure for next time.

[Ayrshire Chris]

48 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

Maybe it needs as many as possible to, once the contact page is up and running again, report this to them.

Correct, the more reports  they get whether or not you were successful the more chance it will be taken seriously. 
Reckon we were extremely lucky. My pc on Wi-Fi got stuck on two bars and never moved from there,whilst the I pad liked to my phone progressed steadily through the bars and secured tickets. 

Edited November 17 by Ayrshire Chris

[Lubic]

Depressing to see bots and tech touts hoovering up tickets yet again. I’d like to think the festival/see will be looking at how to reduce this but not getting my hopes up given how this has been an ongoing issue for a while now.

[ads1980]

3 minutes ago, Lubic said:

Depressing to see bots and tech touts hoovering up tickets yet again. I’d like to think the festival/see will be looking at how to reduce this but not getting my hopes up given how this has been an ongoing issue for a while now.

I think the Queue-IT implementation has actually made it easier as well. 

[Skip997]

4 minutes ago, Lubic said:

Depressing to see bots and tech touts hoovering up tickets yet again. I’d like to think the festival/see will be looking at how to reduce this but not getting my hopes up given how this has been an ongoing issue for a while now.

To what extent, if any, is this likely to change the demographic?

[tigger123]

1 minute ago, Skip997 said:

To what extent, if any, is this likely to change the demographic?

I’m really interested to see whether the change in system has changed the attendee demographic at all and if so how 

[justanotheronethen]

2 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

To what extent, if any, is this likely to change the demographic?

Have you seen how badly bots and tech touts dance? It's like an 80s youth club disco on shrooms

[CantWaitForGlasto22]

45 minutes ago, Mr Boo said:

Thank you, just done this 👍

Same. Phew. No email but can locate it on See

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, Skip997 said:

To what extent, if any, is this likely to change the demographic?

The pool of festival goers is only so big … each year some new join and some old call it a day . This year it probably means that it has shifted slightly more than normal but even last year and years previously the hack would have been letting in those that were not it savvy … so maybe the odd % on to that but don’t expect a noticeable difference myself 

[Little Thief]

Unfortunately part of the disappointed brigade today. In a group of 42 of us (7 groups of 6) only a single person got through and managed to get tickets for their group. Barely anyone else got above 3 bars.

 

I think on paper the new queueing system is fairer, but they really need to find a way to make it a level playing field. Has to be something they can implement which puts a stop to bots, multiple queue IDs etc, so each honest registered punter has a fair crack.

 

Unfortunately I’m not sure if there’ll ever be a water-tight method which prevents techy workarounds.

 

Big congrats to those who got tickets fair and square - hope to have more luck in April 🤞

 

 

[Skip997]

1 minute ago, justanotheronethen said:

Have you seen how badly bots and tech touts dance? It's like an 80s youth club disco on shrooms

😁

[ads1980]

7 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

To what extent, if any, is this likely to change the demographic?

It’s difficult to tell. But for example, if people have been paying an extra £500 for someone to ‘guarantee’ their ticket using a bot, that already prices out a lot of people. And I don’t know the costs associated so just using that as an example but it generally means people with more money will buy up the tickets using an unfair advantage that is not accessible to everyone. It might not be loads as I don’t know the exact numbers involved. 

Edited November 17 by ads1980

[incident]

3 minutes ago, ads1980 said:

I think the Queue-IT implementation has actually made it easier as well. 

 

Dramatically so.

 

Not going to go into details, but while the previous system could never be described as "bot-proof" (just as no system really can) - the fact that it could be so inconsistent, error occasionally, or just fall over did mean that anyone trying to connect to it had to somewhat babysit their connections. It created a kind of protection in itself.

 

New system makes it far easier to do all kinds of things that people would consider unfair, and to do so from a few different angles. And in terms of bots specifically, in the true sense of the word - to do so far cheaper and quicker than most people reading this would have expected.

[MEGABOWL]

2 hours ago, gsp8181 said:

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

It’s definitely working before that, I got flagged on one connection joining the waiting room

[Skip997]

1 minute ago, ads1980 said:

It’s difficult to tell. But for example, if people have been paying an extra £500 for someone to ‘guarantee’ their ticket using a bot, that already prices out a lot of people. And I don’t know the costs associated so just using that as an example but it generally means people with more money will buy up the tickets using an unfair advantage that is not accessible to everyone. 

It’s already beyond my comprehension how people afford it even without paying someone to guarantee them a ticket.

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, MEGABOWL said:

It’s definitely working before that, I got flagged on one connection joining the waiting room

Yeah likewise and then I reconnected on that same one and got the 2 bars 

[ads1980]

3 minutes ago, incident said:

 

Dramatically so.

 

Not going to go into details, but while the previous system could never be described as "bot-proof" (just as no system really can) - the fact that it could be so inconsistent, error occasionally, or just fall over did mean that anyone trying to connect to it had to somewhat babysit their connections. It created a kind of protection in itself.

 

New system makes it far easier to do all kinds of things that people would consider unfair, and to do so from a few different angles. And in terms of bots specifically, in the true sense of the word - to do so far cheaper and quicker than most people reading this would have expected.

Yeah, I don’t know the details involved but I imagine hammering a queue from a hell of a lot of unique requests almost guarantees you’ll force some through enough to then be able to ensure you have a lot with a good queue position. 
like you say, when hammering seetickets previously, it would just crash, timeout,

proceed - Who knew what would happen. But you never had a real indication where you were when you were hammering F5. 

[phillyfaddle]

For those still waiting for emails. Order still not found on See Tickets tracker, but person on that order just received their confirmation email at 15:13. They’re just slow going out for some reason.

[Nobody Interesting]

1 hour ago, Crazyfool01 said:

Agree … 

 

26 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

Correct, the more reports  they get whether or not you were successful the more chance it will be taken seriously. 
Reckon we were extremely lucky. My pc on Wi-Fi got stuck on two bars and never moved from there,whilst the I pad liked to my phone progressed steadily through the bars and secured tickets. 

The contact page is open and they already have my contact message

[Robjbrear]

10 minutes ago, CantWaitForGlasto22 said:

Same. Phew. No email but can locate it on See

Weird, I have had a confirmation email but won't appear when searching on See. 

[Ballian67]

Has there ever been a good reason given for not having a ballot?  

[incident]

Just now, Ballian67 said:

Has there ever been a good reason given for not having a ballot?  

 

Because everyone hates the idea.

[Nobody Interesting]

5 minutes ago, Ballian67 said:

Has there ever been a good reason given for not having a ballot?  

Cos everyone has different family/group sizes and just having one entry means couples would be separated etc

 

and everyone hates the idea.

[danz026]

5 minutes ago, Ballian67 said:

Has there ever been a good reason given for not having a ballot?  

Because Emily wants the same people getting in every year and us first timers shut out.

 

The actual fairest way would be to go back to in person tickets. 200-ish places across the UK selling 1,000 tickets each. Go and queue up overnight to get them.