Ticket tips and Tricks for 2025 festival

[Physical_graffiti]

2 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

Paid “professional queuers” would get involved. It would have to be policed and there would be a high chance of violence 

Yeah, I think people don’t understand that things that work for other events work because these events have much much MUCH less demand, even the London marathon. Glastonbury is really unique in that seemingly the whole country wants in, including those practising dark arts. You’re right, 100% some dickheads would push in front of weaker people in physical queues.

[Physical_graffiti]

1 minute ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

I was in this overnight queue for Led Zeppelin tickets, but a helluva lot younger!

Led zeppelin and Glastonbury are the two things I would queue overnight for, my username checks out ha

[Nobody Interesting]

39 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

London marathon is often used as an example .... people register and never get a place exactly the same in 10 plus years 

and the marathon gives a husband an entry whilst the wife misses out = would never work for GF

[danz026]

2 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

and the marathon gives a husband an entry whilst the wife misses out = would never work for GF

You can organise ballots in such a way that you apply as a whole group and the whole group gets in or no one does. Btw I’m not necessarily saying a ballot is the best way. Personally I’d either do in person or use today’s system but with one queue position per registration and you can’t buy for a group that doesn’t include yourself. 

[Nobody Interesting]

1 minute ago, danz026 said:

You can organise ballots in such a way that you apply as a whole group and the whole group gets in or no one does. Btw I’m not necessarily saying a ballot is the best way. Personally I’d either do in person or use today’s system but with one queue position per registration and you can’t buy for a group that doesn’t include yourself. 

That would be very hard to organise as groups can be lots of people or just 2 so clould end up more complicated than the new Champions League draw which makes no sense to anyone.

[Dreamingofsunnydays]

Anyone else not had their confirmation email? 

[tigger123]

Just now, Dreamingofsunnydays said:

Anyone else not had their confirmation email? 

me

[whateverworksout]

i’m not a tech genius so not sure about the how but definitely unsavoury methods happening again this year, which i did actually benefit from last year, i know someone who managed to get 88 tickets this morning! none for me this time tho as i wasn’t aware until afterwards 😞

[charlierc]

58 minutes ago, phillyfaddle said:

I called my mum’s BT landline  on my mobile from Everest base camp and it was like she was in the next room. From my home in Hampshire, I get 1-2 bars on O2 😂 and signal often drops. Mad.

Impressive stuff and an impressive contrast.

 

I moved from EE to O2 last year because O2 has no roaming charges for visiting the EU and also had a better array of side-promises like Priority or money off at restaurants than EE, but I can't deny that EE had a more consistent signal.

[efcfanwirral]

6 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

That would be very hard to organise as groups can be lots of people or just 2 so clould end up more complicated than the new Champions League draw which makes no sense to anyone.

It'd have to be groups of 6 only. If they could somehow stop people registering loads of times its probably equal to the queueing system for people not in large groups of 6x however many 

[Crazyfool01]

7 minutes ago, whateverworksout said:

i’m not a tech genius so not sure about the how but definitely unsavoury methods happening again this year, which i did actually benefit from last year, i know someone who managed to get 88 tickets this morning! none for me this time tho as i wasn’t aware until afterwards 😞

what was the cost of it ? ive seen 50 quid mentioned in some places ( I will never do it ) 

[Doohickey]

34 minutes ago, Dreamingofsunnydays said:

Anyone else not had their confirmation email? 

Me as well

[Aragorn]

No confirmation either lol

[dingbat2]

1 hour ago, Toilet Duck said:

Basically, it needs to rain for the 5 days. Most of the festivals for the last 10+ years have had great weather, lots of current attendees have never experienced the drudge of a really muddy one. 2007 put me off the following year. That and a massive crash to the global economy. Then it should be handy enough to get tickets for a few years. Ok, I’m kidding (I shouldn’t even joke about rain! NFR NFC!), but that’s what it took to dampen demand before. There’s just too many people that want to go. Can’t please everyone and whatever system they pick will have flaws. Personally (even though I didn’t get sorted this morning), it seemed more stable than other years, which is a good thing. Weirdly doesn’t feel as bad not getting there when I never got close, compared to losing out as payment wouldn’t go through on the See site due to everyone simultaneously hammering F5. 

 

Demand will only go down the following year if its a real mudbath and rainy continually throughout the five days of the festival, especially in the first few days. That last happened in 2007 and demand was a lot les the couple of years after. 2016 wasnt as bad as 2007 but was still really muddy towards the end, but didnt really 'dampen' demand the following year

[Sack truck]

We’ve been successful 7 times from 7 years attempts  for our group of 6  up until this sale.. over 40 devices spread amongst us all on different IPs and nobody got more than 5 bars on any. Gutted to say the least 

[ads1980]

30 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

what was the cost of it ? ive seen 50 quid mentioned in some places ( I will never do it ) 

I’m also interested to know this

[Stave]

6 minutes ago, Aragorn said:

No confirmation either lol

Mines just come - aaaaaannnd relax....

[R.Send]

Confirmation email just landed also, phew !

 

[Field Commander Jefferson]

All 10 of our groups missed out, majority have been going every year since the early 2000s. 

It will be interesting to see what effect the new ticket system has on the vibe.

 

This has obviously opened it up to more causal mainstream crowd, maybe that's how Emily sees it now... a Coachella style event. That's the way mainstream culture/music is going anyway. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Field Commander Jefferson

[Nobody Interesting]

47 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

It'd have to be groups of 6 only. If they could somehow stop people registering loads of times its probably equal to the queueing system for people not in large groups of 6x however many 

 

Just register under numerous different addresses and then which ever gets in change it to the right address. Too easy to beat a system like that sadly

[Nobody Interesting]

49 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

what was the cost of it ? ive seen 50 quid mentioned in some places ( I will never do it ) 

I have seen the sum of £50 mentioned to become a 'member' but also with suggestions of extra costs to get a link or whatever the next part of their money making scheme. is

[wicksy101]

5 hours 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?

This was the case for previous years, nothing new. I used the same thing last year (with chrome, but the same thing using profiles)

 

the only way they can stop it is by limiting devices by IP, sadly this is not possible, as people share IPs on mobile networks, at home and places like Uni ect.

[secondhandsausagedog]

Pyramid Scheme some might say.

[Skip997]

9 minutes ago, Field Commander Jefferson said:

All 10 of our groups missed out, majority have been going every year since the early 2000s. 

It will be interesting to see what effect the new ticket system has on the vibe.

 

This has obviously opened it up to more causal mainstream crowd, maybe that's how Emily sees it now... a Coachella style event. That's the way mainstream culture/music is going anyway. 

There’s plenty of alternative culture events out there, try some of the smaller festivals 

[dingbat2]

21 minutes ago, dingbat2 said:

 

Demand will only go down the following year if its a real mudbath and rainy continually throughout the five days of the festival, especially in the first few days. That last happened in 2007 and demand was a lot les the couple of years after. 2016 wasnt as bad as 2007 but was still really muddy towards the end, but didnt really 'dampen' demand the following year

 

... also wonder if a wet one would make much difference anyway these days, demand so far exceeds supply now, even if it puts 20% off going next year, it will still sell out in 30 minutes. Demand was not so high back in 2007

 

.... And then they created the Park, Shangri La, Arcadia, etc and boom, demand has been through the roof ever since