Ticket tips and Tricks for 2025 festival

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, yosoyyoberdi said:

Funny to read here how this year was unfair coming from people who have consistently attend every year throughout decades via syndicates of hundreds of people with multiple devices autorefreshing every 2 seconds.

who are you talking about ? ive not seen that ? 

[uscore]

20 minutes ago, sheffieldlady said:

Managed to secure 4 tickets, without any tech hacks or whatever. 
 

The device that got through was a iPhone, everything else was moving at different paces some forever stuck at 2 bars.  
 

Do I think there will ever exist a solution that suits everyone? No. You’ll always get people who don’t get a ticket, you’ll always get first timers missing out and people who have been a lot. We didn’t get tickets last year but got them this year. 
 

I would also say the same if I didn’t have a ticket. It’s a lottery. 

 

there's a bit of grey area with "tech hacks or whatever"

 

we were asked to use 1 browser and 1 device, so anyone who used more than that could be argued as "cheating"

 

you can increase your chances by using an extra device, like an iphone. Or an additional browser.  Or lots of sessions on the same browser.  At what point does that that become "wrong"? 

 

a fairly non-techy person could quite easily manage to create 100 places for themselves in the queue with not that much effort.   Where is the line?

Edited November 17 by uscore

[uscore]

I wonder if See/Glastonbury don't mind a few (thousand?) people getting tickets in beyond-the-line ways - because they have the additional security of photos being on tickets to deter post-purchase touting.

[AdrianH]

I've got my tickets more often in the resale than the main sale so all is not lost

[Skip997]

6 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

who are you talking about ? ive not seen that ? 

Come on it happens every year and is planned on here. The only inaccuracy in the post is “hundreds”.

[wicksy101]

8 hours ago, gsp8181 said:

Just seen this posted

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QyetvkeMuS4PlmjJJSC3lFBwB0ye_8j1jPDMj624Wrk/htmlview

 

Apparently the code to generate queue-it links is in github so nice one seetickets for absolutely bottling it again this year.

This is actually really interesting. I reached out to the person who posted the 600 front-of-queue links, and they were quite open about their reasons for doing so. Contrary to what some have suggested, they aren’t a reseller with leftover tickets to offload. Instead, they did this purely to get SeeTickets’ attention and push for this loophole to be patched. It cost them them a significant amount of money, and they haven’t made anything from it.

 

While they didn’t confirm whether they’ve spoken directly to anyone at SeeTickets or Glastonbury, they did mention that they’ve heard that they are planning to move to a more secure queuing method. This would involve sending users unique queue links via email—a feature provided by Queue-It.

 

So, new queue method for resale??

[Toilet Duck]

This thread is literally called “Ticket tips and tricks for 2025 festival”. Complaining that people actually used tips and tricks to get their tickets is a bit bizarre! All’s fair in love, war and T’Day! (Again, I didn’t get a ticket!)…

[Crazyfool01]

2 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

Come on it happens every year and is planned on here. The only inaccuracy in the post is “hundreds”.

I know the groups happen and yep we setup the first one but cant see anyone whinging about the system thats in one ... spreadsheets also available to every single person on here should they chose , ours only closed 3 days before when we did it on here and there was a post yesterday about people joining one hardly exclusive and open to all .... the discussion is is that aa step to far .... for me its not but I did reject the hack option last time as that was .... everyone has a line thats different 

[sheffieldlady]

14 minutes ago, uscore said:

 

there's a bit of grey area with "tech hacks or whatever"

 

we were asked to use 1 browser and 1 device, so anyone who used more than that could be argued as "cheating"

 

you can increase your chances by using an extra device, like an iphone. Or an additional browser.  Or lots of sessions on the same browser.  At what point does that that become "wrong"? 

 

a fairly non-techy person could quite easily manage to create 100 places for themselves in the queue with not that much effort.   Where is the line?

Very true! 
 

I know some friends went into their office and used every single computer (around 75) each with a single browser open, each progressed in the queue at different rates. 

[dotdash79]

15 minutes ago, wicksy101 said:

 

This is actually really interesting. I reached out to the person who posted the 600 front-of-queue links, and they were quite open about their reasons for doing so. Contrary to what some have suggested, they aren’t a reseller with leftover tickets to offload. Instead, they did this purely to get SeeTickets’ attention and push for this loophole to be patched. It cost them them a significant amount of money, and they haven’t made anything from it.

 

While they didn’t confirm whether they’ve spoken directly to anyone at SeeTickets or Glastonbury, they did mention that they’ve heard that they are planning to move to a more secure queuing method. This would involve sending users unique queue links via email—a feature provided by Queue-It.

 

So, new queue method for resale??

This would be possible to game with loads of registrations but with better checks on setting up registrations and managing them  this would help.

 

Maybe tie a registration to a mobile number, and have 2FA.

Edited November 17 by dotdash79

[Toilet Duck]

Just now, dotdash79 said:

This would be possible to game with loads of registrations but with better checks on setting up registrations and managing them  this would help.

Seeing as our faces are on our registrations and tickets, it’s not that difficult to limit to one reg per person. Would need to consent everyone already registered, or make everyone re-register, but not that hard to implement facial recognition on the registrations (no idea whether they manually check the photos at the moment, but if not, this would also speed up that process). Not necessarily advocating for this, just that it’s not rocket science to implement…I don’t really mind what system they use, so long as it is stable when you actually submit your order to buy. Thought today was pretty smooth tbh. 

[ads1980]

16 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

Come on it happens every year and is planned on here. The only inaccuracy in the post is “hundreds”.

I’m more intrigued than anything. I’ve been to every single one since 2005 but not always with a bought ticket. Where I haven’t been able to secure a ticket, I’ve worked there. 

[dotdash79]

1 minute ago, Toilet Duck said:

Seeing as our faces are on our registrations and tickets, it’s not that difficult to limit to one reg per person. Would need to consent everyone already registered, or make everyone re-register, but not that hard to implement facial recognition on the registrations (no idea whether they manually check the photos at the moment, but if not, this would also speed up that process). Not necessarily advocating for this, just that it’s not rocket science to implement…I don’t really mind what system they use, so long as it is stable when you actually submit your order to buy. Thought today was pretty smooth tbh. 

We have 2 registrations and the reason is if a transaction fails our reg is locked for 10 min, so we have a secondary failback. Both have the same photo.

[DTichborne]

This was a far more relaxing way of failing to get tickets than usual. 

Edited November 17 by DTichborne
Typo

[Skip997]

5 minutes ago, Toilet Duck said:

Seeing as our faces are on our registrations and tickets, it’s not that difficult to limit to one reg per person. Would need to consent everyone already registered, or make everyone re-register, but not that hard to implement facial recognition on the registrations (no idea whether they manually check the photos at the moment, but if not, this would also speed up that process). Not necessarily advocating for this, just that it’s not rocket science to implement…I don’t really mind what system they use, so long as it is stable when you actually submit your order to buy. Thought today was pretty smooth tbh. 

f**k facial recognition 

[Skip997]

4 minutes ago, ads1980 said:

I’m more intrigued than anything. I’ve been to every single one since 2005 but not always with a bought ticket. Where I haven’t been able to secure a ticket, I’ve worked there. 

Been 26 times since 1985, only bought a ticket once, but like you I’m also intrigued 

[Toilet Duck]

Just now, Skip997 said:

f**k facial recognition 

As I said, not necessarily advocating it, but you’re kidding yourself if you think you aren’t surrounded by it!

[Skip997]

Just now, Toilet Duck said:

As I said, not necessarily advocating it, but you’re kidding yourself if you think you aren’t surrounded by it!

Sadly I’m aware of it, even our local Asda has it. 

[Toilet Duck]

6 minutes ago, dotdash79 said:

We have 2 registrations and the reason is if a transaction fails our reg is locked for 10 min, so we have a secondary failback. Both have the same photo.

We all have 2 registrations as well for this exact same reason! As I said, I’m not advocating any of this , just saying that if they really wanted to limit to 1 reg per person, they could. I’m fine with the approach they used today. Final part of the process looked a lot smoother than previous years, which was my main bugbear with the other systems. You win some, you lose some. I’m ok with that. 

[Toilet Duck]

1 minute ago, Skip997 said:

Sadly I’m aware of it, even our local Asda has it. 

Yep, bloody everywhere!

[Suprefan]

29 minutes ago, wicksy101 said:

 

This is actually really interesting. I reached out to the person who posted the 600 front-of-queue links, and they were quite open about their reasons for doing so. Contrary to what some have suggested, they aren’t a reseller with leftover tickets to offload. Instead, they did this purely to get SeeTickets’ attention and push for this loophole to be patched. It cost them them a significant amount of money, and they haven’t made anything from it.

 

While they didn’t confirm whether they’ve spoken directly to anyone at SeeTickets or Glastonbury, they did mention that they’ve heard that they are planning to move to a more secure queuing method. This would involve sending users unique queue links via email—a feature provided by Queue-It.

 

So, new queue method for resale??

 

no. Theyll save it. You let the resale be the same because theres zero reason to change it all for a tiny amount of tickets. If youre re doing the entire system yet again you have 2 years to test and find the holes. Theres still gonna be work arounds next time around.  And in that time the bots will get better and theres other techniques.

 

hope everyone learned their lesson that playing nice wont always get you to the promised land. Oasis shouldve been the wake up call

Edited November 17 by Suprefan

[steviewevie]

f**kface 

[Crazyfool01]

7 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

Sadly I’m aware of it, even our local Asda has it. 

cameras mate not facial recognition 

[Suprefan]

20 minutes ago, dotdash79 said:

This would be possible to game with loads of registrations but with better checks on setting up registrations and managing them  this would help.

 

Maybe tie a registration to a mobile number, and have 2FA.

 

youre also giving this more to younger punters cause older attendees arent always the most trch savvy. Who says theer wont be a giant glitch that gives a ton of errors on verifying and youve got a giant swath of people on the outside while the ones who avoided it are holding tickets. And youre going to make See have to send verifications to global phone numbers? Like the person in Nepal has to get an sms. Think about it.

[Skip997]

8 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

cameras mate not facial recognition 

Thanks for the clarification. 
 

Cameras or facial recognition it’s all OTT surveillance. Any way it’s possible to avoid the one on the self serve tills