Ticket tips and Tricks for 2025 festival

[km9]

4 minutes ago, CantWaitForGlasto22 said:

Same. For the first time I’m asking non-Glastonbury family and friends to help us on the day. Imagine it’s Granny who gets through 🫣

Won't granny need a registration?

[incident]

15 minutes ago, CharlotteB said:

It'll be interesting to see how it goes. I don't like that people with faster internet had an advantage

 

They never did really, that was something of a myth or a presumption.

 

The "bottleneck" was never really on the customer side, it was with the See servers so different internet connections were broadly equal or perhaps more accurately not always predictably advantageous - every year you'd get anecdotal stories of people trying and failing on their super high end home or work connection, but then popping the phone onto 3G and getting straight through. Not that a 3G mobile connection had an advantage either of course.

 

There would have been numerous factors at play in success chances and opining on them could get very dull - but for the most part connection speed would have only been a minor factor.

Edited November 6 by incident

[incident]

Just now, km9 said:

Won't granny need a registration?

 

If she wishes to attend the festival, yes.

 

Not if she wishes to purchase tickets for someone else to use.

[CantWaitForGlasto22]

Just now, km9 said:

Won't granny need a registration?

She doesn’t want to go herself (though that’s a thought!) but I meant she will try for tickets for us

[belfast]

Currently sitting in queue for Snow Patrol tickets at Belsonic. Tried joining queue on another device and message appeared 'You're already in a queue on another device, if you wish to use this device you will be placed at the back of the queue'

 

Think Glastonbury will be the same? Only one device able to enter?

[km9]

Just now, incident said:

 

If she wishes to attend the festival, yes.

 

Not if she wishes to purchase tickets for someone else to use.

I assumed that to get in the queue you would need to enter your registration details, and then when you got through you would add up to another 5. Is this definitely not the way it will run?

[incident]

Just now, km9 said:

I assumed that to get in the queue you would need to enter your registration details, and then when you got through you would add up to another 5. Is this definitely not the way it will run?

 

They've not said anything about that - and I would hope / expect if there was an entry requirement like that then they'd flag it ahead of time (indeed - for me flagging that kind of limitation would be more necessary than flagging the existence of a queue in the first place).

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, km9 said:

I assumed that to get in the queue you would need to enter your registration details, and then when you got through you would add up to another 5. Is this definitely not the way it will run?

No sign of needing to do that in the write up 

[CantWaitForGlasto22]

The FAQs definitely indicate that you put in your registration details once you get to the front of the queue, not when you join it, so I think it’s legitimate to have friends/family also in the queue for you (from different IP addresses)

 

 

[briddj]

6 minutes ago, incident said:

 

They never did really, that was something of a myth or a presumption.

 

The "bottleneck" was never really on the customer side, it was with the See servers so different internet connections were broadly equal or perhaps more accurately not always predictably advantageous - every year you'd get anecdotal stories of people trying and failing on their super high end home or work connection, but then popping the phone onto 3G and getting straight through. Not that a 3G mobile connection had an advantage either of course.

 

There would have been numerous factors at play in success chances and opining on them could get very dull - but for the most part connection speed would have only been a minor factor.

 

Got my Oasis tickets on See on 5G on my mobile.

[km9]

Just now, Crazyfool01 said:

No sign of needing to do that in the write up 

If this is the case it would seem to be a bit of a flaw in the system. Whoever has the most friends has the most chances

[belfast]

Just now, CantWaitForGlasto22 said:

The FAQs definitely indicate that you put in your registration details once you get to the front of the queue, not when you join it, so I think it’s legitimate to have friends/family also in the queue for you (from different IP addresses)

 

 

10 mins seems fair to me

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, km9 said:

If this is the case it would seem to be a bit of a flaw in the system. Whoever has the most friends has the most chances

To some extent but that’s not really changed though 

[dotdash79]

5 minutes ago, belfast said:

Currently sitting in queue for Snow Patrol tickets at Belsonic. Tried joining queue on another device and message appeared 'You're already in a queue on another device, if you wish to use this device you will be placed at the back of the queue'

 

Think Glastonbury will be the same? Only one device able to enter?

Is that see tickets or ticket master?

[incident]

1 minute ago, CantWaitForGlasto22 said:

The FAQs definitely indicate that you put in your registration details once you get to the front of the queue, not when you join it, so I think it’s legitimate to have friends/family also in the queue for you (from different IP addresses)

 

 

 

Yeah - the screenshot certainly shows the usual blank form with 6 spots on it so that's what I'm expecting.

[ilovelanegan]

17 minutes ago, CantWaitForGlasto22 said:

Same. For the first time I’m asking non-Glastonbury family and friends to help us on the day. Imagine it’s Granny who gets through 🫣

 

I was thinking of asking my mum but honestly, can see the most likely scenario that she gets through but then somehow locks out the group 🤣

[fraybentos1]

25 minutes ago, CharlotteB said:

 I don't like that people with faster internet had an advantage, 

They didn't really

[CantWaitForGlasto22]

1 minute ago, ilovelanegan said:

 

I was thinking of asking my mum but honestly, can see the most likely scenario that she gets through but then somehow locks out the group 🤣

This is a concern of mine too!! On the other hand I think the system is actually more straightforward as no refreshing etc required so hoping she’d manage it 🤞🥴

[briddj]

15 minutes ago, belfast said:

Currently sitting in queue for Snow Patrol tickets at Belsonic. Tried joining queue on another device and message appeared 'You're already in a queue on another device, if you wish to use this device you will be placed at the back of the queue'

 

Think Glastonbury will be the same? Only one device able to enter?

 

That is Ticketmaster which runs a queue specific to your log in.

[belfast]

10 minutes ago, dotdash79 said:

Is that see tickets or ticket master?

Ticketmaster but that's never happened me on TM before

[dotdash79]

1 minute ago, belfast said:

Ticketmaster but that's never happened me on TM before

Yea they made some changes recently to tighten up on that. 

[Yokel Again]

I really don't buy this idea of the festival having this queueing system forced on them by See. The festival have been so proactive about the registration process, years before any other anti touting measures, have been so proactive in trying to reduce the amount of time they take to sell out etc... I just can't imagine them going 'oh go on then' IF See came along and said 'you have to do this.' 

 

It's not all over the news saying 'Seetickets have changed this' it says 'big change in Glastonbury ticket sale' - the festival will be well aware it's their reputation that goes along with the sale, not the ticket company.

 

 

[Fred Zepplin]

I just hope it doesn’t take to long to sell out. At least when you could f5 it you were doing something. I can’t spend 5 hours keeping an eye on a few screens, I’ve 2 kids to keep entertained and swimming booked for the afternoon 

[NotAnInsider]

Just now, Yokel Again said:

I really don't buy this idea of the festival having this queueing system forced on them by See. The festival have been so proactive about the registration process, years before any other anti touting measures, have been so proactive in trying to reduce the amount of time they take to sell out etc... I just can't imagine them going 'oh go on then' IF See came along and said 'you have to do this.' 

 

It's not all over the news saying 'Seetickets have changed this' it says 'big change in Glastonbury ticket sale' - the festival will be well aware it's their reputation that goes along with the sale, not the ticket company.

 

 

Could well be a bit of column A, bit of column B. 

 

The cost for See of having a billion different devices trying to connect just for ticket day is probably a bit silly; there aren't 2.5 million people trying for tickets each year by any stretch but almost certainly that many devices attempting to connect. The hosts hack may have played a part to; with an acceptance that its too big a deal to work with in house for see.

 

For all the festival have said in the past about no wanting to do a ballot the demographic of the festival has changed the last few years - you cannot deny that at all. The question is if that's a genuine shift in the type of person who wants to go to Glastonbury or the festival has become unrepresentative and if that fault lies, in part, with the ticketing system.

 

There's definitely an argument the ticket system had become biased so I can see why the festivals view could have changed. 

[Skip997]

15 minutes ago, NotAnInsider said:

 demographic of the festival has changed the last few years - you cannot deny that at all. 

The demographic changed after the “super fence” appeared. Not noticed a massive change since