Ticket tips and Tricks for 2025 festival

[briddj]

8 minutes ago, discgoesmic said:

It would be worse if they enforced the Ticketmaster strategy of one device per person.

 

That really would be end of days stuff, but you could have multiple registrations to beat that.

[henry bear]

Gonna be a sh*t-ton of newbies on here very soon

[Sitruc97]

3 minutes ago, kalifire said:

If we use their own screenshot as an example, you won’t get a queue number at all. You’ll just be in the queue until you’re not. 

In that case i take my comment back, its an absolute disaster 

[discgoesmic]

1 minute ago, briddj said:

 

That really would be end of days stuff, but you could have multiple registrations to beat that.

Do you think so? Registrations would effectively work the same way as Ticketmaster accounts - just data related to your identity. You wouldn't be able to have the same name. email, address, postcode etc twice. Tickets are also managed inside the app/site so effectively you sorta need a registration for every Ticketmaster gig now.

[briddj]

1 minute ago, discgoesmic said:

Do you think so? Registrations would effectively work the same way as Ticketmaster accounts - just data related to your identity. You wouldn't be able to have the same name. email, address, postcode etc twice. Tickets are also managed inside the app/site so effectively you sorta need a registration for every Ticketmaster gig now.

 

Believe me, if you have more than one Ticketmaster account you can join the queue more than once....

[monday]

13 minutes ago, Sitruc97 said:

On the flip side imagine the relief of seeing queue number 1,000 popping up at 9:01AM, positive mindset till next Sunday...

I’ve found with Ticketmaster the queue numbers meant nothing for me anyway. I’d be well within capacity and every single time I’ve got through it says ‘no tickets available please try again’. 
 

this is disastrous. Absolutely bricking it now for ticket day. this is basically a ballot system. Now we just await our random place in a queue and hope for the best. 

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

1 minute ago, henry bear said:

Gonna be a sh*t-ton of newbies on here very soon

 

Maybe that's what the festival is looking for? A shift in demographic? More first-timers each year?

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

 

Maybe that's what the festival is looking for? A shift in demographic? More first-timers each year?

I think it works fairly well as is … good mix of new and old . 

[Justcalledtosay]

12 minutes ago, TheDayman said:

 

It makes it easier for those with big followership to generate help (even paid help) to acquire them a ticket.

 

Plus, I think it's fairer to reward those who go to the effort of organising and work hard refreshing for tickets than those who stop after 5 mins to complain. It's the modern day equivalent of queuing up overnight outside the music store.

I'm in fear of becoming the devil here but the previous system was a little bit of the have's versus the have not's with regard to the knowledge of how to play the system. As someone who didn't know how to play the system i tried for about 5 years without any luck. I only ended up getting to Glastonbury for the first time due to a friend getting tickets as a supplier. Gives those people who've always wanted to goa fair shot. Good luck to everyone.

[TheDayman]

Not sure if this is been mentioned yet, this is doubly bad for anyone living together and under the same IP (couples, housemates, etc.) 

[uscore]

Just now, Justcalledtosay said:

I'm in fear of becoming the devil here but the previous system was a little bit of the have's versus the have not's with regard to the knowledge of how to play the system. As someone who didn't know how to play the system i tried for about 5 years without any luck. I only ended up getting to Glastonbury for the first time due to a friend getting tickets as a supplier. Gives those people who've always wanted to goa fair shot. Good luck to everyone.

 

does it though?  It's still going favour the large organised groups.  There's more randomness thrown in, but if there are lots of people trying for each other - and they are tech savy enough to have multiple devices and multiple IPs,  then I don't see the "average" punter being that much better off.

[MMMarc1720]

Hopefully means when you are through the initial screen it still isn’t a total lottery when trying to buy the ticket. Last year the payment screen was more stressful than actually trying to get on. So if it makes it easier for the lucky people who get in then it might be a good thing 👍🏻 

[Ricci's Special Kebabs]

17 minutes ago, czuk said:

Speaking as someone who hasn't been successful at getting tickets since 2017, I don't know if this change will be good or bad for me.  Over the years I've tried auto refresh, manual refresh, multiple browsers, multiple sessions, mutiple IP addresses, VPNs, even locked glastonbury.seetickets.com to specific IPs via hosts file.  The only thing I haven't tried is joining a ticket syndicate, and that's because there's only me in my group of 6 who would actually know what to do and would therefore not be pulling their weight for the syndicate.  Let's see what happens this year.

Your chances have reduced, it will encourage more people to register and try because it's now effectively a ballot. 

[Pr0paneNightm4re]

6 minutes ago, monday said:

I’ve found with Ticketmaster the queue numbers meant nothing for me anyway. I’d be well within capacity and every single time I’ve got through it says ‘no tickets available please try again’. 
 

this is disastrous. Absolutely bricking it now for ticket day. this is basically a ballot system. Now we just await our random place in a queue and hope for the best. 

You’ve got to think that most people aren’t purchasing 1 ticket.

Assuming that there are 210,000 tickets for sale and people are mostly purchasing 6 tickets, that’s only around 35,000 successful queue spaces.

 

Terrifying stuff

[Spindles]

44 minutes ago, kalifire said:

They seriously dropped this the day before a possible Trump 2.0

2016 all over again.  May as well pack a life vest and gaters.

[Ricci's Special Kebabs]

1 minute ago, MMMarc1720 said:

Hopefully means when you are through the initial screen it still isn’t a total lottery when trying to buy the ticket. Last year the payment screen was more stressful than actually trying to get on. So if it makes it easier for the lucky people who get in then it might be a good thing 👍🏻 

Sam Fender ticket queue crashed for many people, if that happens and you lose you place you're going to be at the back with no chance of getting a ticket. 

 

With the old system you've always got the same chance no matter what time you refreshed your page. 

[Cream Soda]

5 minutes ago, TheDayman said:

Not sure if this is been mentioned yet, this is doubly bad for anyone living together and under the same IP (couples, housemates, etc.) 

Can we not use more than one device on the same wifi connection?

[Ricci's Special Kebabs]

2 minutes ago, Cream Soda said:

Can we not use more than one device on the same wifi connection?

It will be fine but they'll not broadcast that fact. 

[ukmountie]

25 minutes ago, Scrump said:

Tried an azure VM for Sam fender and 3 out of the 4 tabs I used got blocked the moment the queue opened. Assumed it was because I was on the VM not the multiple tabs... But will try again with one tab maybe just to see

Thanks,
I used some Azure VM's for last T-day and they got no-where. Didn't bother for Oasis as I wasn't that bothered. I'll spin one up next week for Coach sale but I think they must block the Azure ip range. It's identifiable and a likely place to run ticket bots.

[MMMarc1720]

1 minute ago, Ricci's Special Kebabs said:

Sam Fender ticket queue crashed for many people, if that happens and you lose you place you're going to be at the back with no chance of getting a ticket. 

 

With the old system you've always got the same chance no matter what time you refreshed your page. 

Yeah only time will tell - if it crashes and punts you out the thing all together to be back of the queue then it will be a complete disaster. I found last year the fact you were at a payment screen and it was still essentially a lottery (judging by twitter where loads of people got booted out trying to pay) that it was a bit of a shambles of a process. Not overly surprising they are changing it to "try" make it fairer.

[TheDayman]

4 minutes ago, Pr0paneNightm4re said:

You’ve got to think that most people aren’t purchasing 1 ticket.

Assuming that there are 210,000 tickets for sale and people are mostly purchasing 6 tickets, that’s only around 35,000 successful queue spaces.

 

Terrifying stuff

 

And that as a percentage of 2.5 million (the amount of people supposedly trying last year- notwithstanding that was probably multiple devices), is a success percentage of about 1.4%.

 

Terrifying indeed.

Edited November 5 by TheDayman

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

4 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

I think it works fairly well as is … good mix of new and old . 

 

I tend to agree. However, from a commercial perspective, the organisation may feel differently, looking ahead. Personally, I think we're in for some significant changes as of 2027's event, changes that may divide the opinions of regulars (I was told of one possible change last night that might seem minor but it definitely alters the landscape from a volunteering standpoint). Some might suggest that it's already begun. Effectively removing a key part of shaping the demographic by turning the ticket buying system on its head, in my opinion, is a deliberate move to shake up the audience. I genuinely think they believe this is the fairest way of giving everyone the opportunity to attend. 

[Ricci's Special Kebabs]

13 minutes ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

 

Maybe that's what the festival is looking for? A shift in demographic? More first-timers each year?

That goes against what Emily said last year when she was asked about a ballot.

[Sasperella2]

2 minutes ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

 

I tend to agree. However, from a commercial perspective, the organisation may feel differently, looking ahead. Personally, I think we're in for some significant changes as of 2027's event, changes that may divide the opinions of regulars (I was told of one possible change last night that might seem minor but it definitely alters the landscape from a volunteering standpoint). Some might suggest that it's already begun. Effectively removing a key part of shaping the demographic by turning the ticket buying system on its head, in my opinion, is a deliberate move to shake up the audience. I genuinely think they believe this is the fairest way of giving everyone the opportunity to attend. 

Oooh what was the possible change??

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

Just now, Ricci's Special Kebabs said:

That goes against what Emily said last year when she was asked about a ballot.

 

I'd argue that this system is effectively a ballot in everything but name. She's also allowed to change her opinion, of course.