Ticket tips and Tricks for 2025 festival

[Avalon_Fields]

39 minutes ago, moo-e said:

final thoughts

- I think Akamai will be the source of "403 Forbidden" etc. Check your devices https://www.akamai.com/us/en/clientrep-lookup/

 

 

''The IP Address 109.156.210.190 did not receive a bad risk score''

 

Phew! I'm clean. (Amended the IP address incase I'm hacked, I'm getting paranoid).

[Suprefan]

4 hours ago, Fake Encore said:

I don't want to go to Glastonbury with people who use tunnel servers, vpn re-routing systems or pay £900 for slots in the tickets queue or stop in a kubutz 2 miles away.

 

I want the hippies at Strummerville, the great unwashed, the ones who will go to the JP Tent at 11.30am as they half heard a song on 6 a year ago, the one getting a swedish massage and not just for instragram but, because there back hurts lugging the thatchers up the hill.

 

Amen 

 

They brought it on themselves so this is what they get.

 

Would still like to see a ticket sale that happens after a lineup is announced to see the reaction and to also see the demo change due to that.

[Crazyfool01]

6 minutes ago, Suprefan said:

 

They brought it on themselves so this is what they get.

 

Would still like to see a ticket sale that happens after a lineup is announced to see the reaction and to also see the demo change due to that.

Why would they do that … the formula works well and they’ve been doing it a fair few years now … must be one of the longest running festivals 

[balti-pie]

If loads of first time, never been before types do get tickets, which is being fear-mongered, i'd say they'd be far more likely not to pay the balance based on what they fancy or dont fancy out of the lineup. They havnt been suckered in by the rest of the festival yet and know to ignore great swathes of the lineup (in terms of who they might want to see, and who its impossible to see anyways cos you cant be at four different stages at the same time!) 

[mpdow2]

latest advice around here is multiple browsers risky as Akamai may think you are a bot and put you into no mans land and you will never know you are there.

 

Anyone think 2 browsers may be ok not to risk the above? 

[Nobody Interesting]

5 minutes ago, mpdow2 said:

latest advice around here is multiple browsers risky as Akamai may think you are a bot and put you into no mans land and you will never know you are there.

 

Anyone think 2 browsers may be ok not to risk the above? 

 

Ask me after Thursday when lots will try it and we will see what it does or does not do.

[moo-e]

1 hour ago, bob323 said:

brill and thanks, thats the info i was after (eg the sequence diagram)

 

based on what are saying, it's possible (but a risk) that having multiple tabs (possibly in containers) or multiple browsers open would increase your chances, as each would get their own tokens?

 

- I suppose multiple tabs does mean multiple distinct tokens all right! if it was a cookie it would be shared between the different sessions - (am not too knowledgable about how browsers work)? From a quick experiment I opened a second tab on Sam Fender, deleted the QueueITAccepted cookie, refreshed and got new distinct enqueue and queueit tokens. 

- But was also thinking that those public repos from queue-it represent a point in time. queue-it look to have been fairly busy over the last few years development wise (from their blog) so they must have private forks of that code that could have all sorts of browser fingerprint handling etc. e.g. in the queue-it repo there are using a 0.2 version of some piece of js from Akamai https://github.com/queueit/KnownUser.V3.Akamai/blob/master/lib/edgekv.js but the current version of that is 0.6.3 https://github.com/akamai/edgeworkers-examples/blob/master/edgekv/lib/edgekv.js - you prob know better than me that these cloud infra folks are always forcing updates particularly wrt to security. You don't get to hang around using an old library or old version of js/ts without being made aware of the security issues!

- but in the end (as you point out) it's more likely the warning/blocking for "anything strange" will come from Akamai

[Dreamingofsunnydays]

Right. I’m currently on a cruise in the canaries. Can somebody please catch me up as I’ve read my email. I don’t get back till the Sunday morning if ticket day.
 

Are we not pressing f5 / refreshing anymore!?

[Cappo Smiffy]

Have read the whole thread, some of the tech advice goes a little beyond my knowledge but i love the committment to the cause!

 

I like to think it comes from a good place but I agree with the poster ref entitlement, there is more than a whiff of it. Nobody is more or less entitled to go whether youre a 20 festival veteran or a newbie wanting to go. Personally I’ve tried since 2015 and only got through and went in 2023 for the first time and fell in love with Glastonbury, having done many others this is like the zenith for me and I adored the vibe of the attendees and array of culture on offer and I fully buy into the romance and history of it all. Last year we had 6 laptops, a dozen phones various connections and tried for hours and got nowhere - and the whole time there’s people using backdoor hacks etc or people with the luxury of teams and teams of people using spreadsheets to buy in blocks etc - if you get a ticket youre fine with the status quo and if you don’t - then more of a ballot doesn’t feel unfair in comparison, not sure you can say someone with smarter access deserves to go more or less than anyone else who wants to if youre both losing the skin off your finger hammering f5! 🤣

 

But having experienced it (just the once so far!) I do have some sympathy for regulars who would be concerned about a vibe shift if the attendee demographic drastically changed but…also unfortunately its jist the nature of the beast, in the same way Reading/Leeds adapts its musical offerings subject to what a-level/students are into and people will always have issue with it etc

 

it’s not any of our place to gatekeep in that regard, and any system that levels the playing field is ultimately a good thing. I can see it’s a really good helpful community here so I hope my post doesn’t come across as attacking or anything! and wish everybody all the best next weekend/coach sales

 

hopefully will stumble across some of you there!

 

[Cappo Smiffy]

oh - and i suppose best approach with the new system is to just be on an hour before on your various devices using different connections and wait to be pulled into a queue?

[briddj]

31 minutes ago, Dreamingofsunnydays said:

Right. I’m currently on a cruise in the canaries. Can somebody please catch me up as I’ve read my email. I don’t get back till the Sunday morning if ticket day.
 

Are we not pressing f5 / refreshing anymore!?

 

We're f**ked.

[Crazyfool01]

Personally can’t see anyone on here that’s entitled or thinking they are … just a shed load of people trying to figure the best way of getting to a festival they love … think it’s easy to make assumptions but unless someone has clearly stated they are more deserving than others ( they haven’t ) then it’s likely to be just that . People are nervous of change and the unknown that’s normal for me in my life and I’d expect that to be the case with many others . Good luck to all , new or old posters or if you are new to the festival or not . Hopefully we get a good mix like always 

[Ryan1984]

Anyone else checking their registration and the email with the details is taking its time to get through?

[Ayrshire Chris]

7 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

Personally can’t see anyone on here that’s entitled or thinking they are … just a shed load of people trying to figure the best way of getting to a festival they love … think it’s easy to make assumptions but unless someone has clearly stated they are more deserving than others ( they haven’t ) then it’s likely to be just that . People are nervous of change and the unknown that’s normal for me in my life and I’d expect that to be the case with many others . Good luck to all , new or old posters or if you are new to the festival or not . Hopefully we get a good mix like always 

👍

I'm sure I read somewhere, probably Glastoearth, that 30% of festival goers are newbies. I can’t see that changing all that much unless there’s been a shitload of new registrations after the changes were announced. 

[pigital]

13 minutes ago, Ryan1984 said:

Anyone else checking their registration and the email with the details is taking its time to get through?

We did yesterday. First time fast. Updated info, wanted to be sure so asked again. Second time longer that anticipated but came through eventually!

[Crazyfool01]

5 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

👍

I'm sure I read somewhere, probably Glastoearth, that 30% of festival goers are newbies. I can’t see that changing all that much unless there’s been a shitload of new registrations after the changes were announced. 

Yeah something like that … at the moment there’s always people happy to fill the places of those that don’t feel it’s for them anymore for many reasons and some will try it and not like it also 

[Stave]

1 hour ago, Ryan1984 said:

Anyone else checking their registration and the email with the details is taking its time to get through?

Following the email today, i sent a request at 14:15 and had a reply at 14:31

[sedra]

4 hours ago, Dreamingofsunnydays said:

Right. I’m currently on a cruise in the canaries. Can somebody please catch me up as I’ve read my email. I don’t get back till the Sunday morning if ticket day.
 

Are we not pressing f5 / refreshing anymore!?

No - it’s a queue system. General consensus is: 

1) log in Seetickets before 9am

2) be placed in random queue and wait to see if you get to the front

3) don’t use multiple browsers or devices except 1 wi-fi IP on a laptop and one 4/5g on a phone or you might be flagged as a bot and get kicked out 

4) Do Not press F5/refreshing except if you get the tickets are all allocated message once you are in the booking form

5) pray to the ticket gods

 

[briddj]

4 minutes ago, sedra said:

No - it’s a queue system. General consensus is: 

1) log in Seetickets before 9am

2) be placed in random queue and wait to see if you get to the front

3) don’t use multiple browsers or devices except 1 wi-fi IP on a laptop and one 4/5g on a phone or you might be flagged as a bot and get kicked out 

4) Do Not press F5/refreshing except if you get the tickets are all allocated message once you are in the booking form

5) pray to the ticket gods

 

 

1) is wrong. Nothing is linked to your See account, and you don't need a See account to buy tickets.

[sedra]

18 minutes ago, briddj said:

 

1) is wrong. Nothing is linked to your See account, and you don't need a See account to buy tickets.

I meant join the Glastonbury Seetickets link before 9am. 

[zico martin]

Well we're not gonna try for tickets this year (wife's health issues) but really don't want to miss out on the ticket fun. Anyone want me to help on Thursday,  or have groups been created somewhere i can't see?

[StoneCircle]

1 hour ago, zico martin said:

Well we're not gonna try for tickets this year (wife's health issues) but really don't want to miss out on the ticket fun. Anyone want me to help on Thursday,  or have groups been created somewhere i can't see?

 

My group don't need help on Thursday but we do on Sunday if you are free then too. 🙏🏻

 

Sorry to hear that your wife's health issues means you can't go. I guess you are aware of the Accessible Facilities offered? I have been using these since 2011 and they have enabled me to carry on attending with assistance. 😊

[zico martin]

6 hours ago, StoneCircle said:

 

My group don't need help on Thursday but we do on Sunday if you are free then too. 🙏🏻

 

Sorry to hear that your wife's health issues means you can't go. I guess you are aware of the Accessible Facilities offered? I have been using these since 2011 and they have enabled me to carry on attending with assistance. 😊

 

I know plenty of people who will be trying on Sunday so I'll most likely be helping them,  just don't know anyone trying for a coach ticket so thought i should offer! 

Thanks re: my wife, she is currently undergoing chemo for stage 2 breast cancer and whilst this will have finished long before June, it is likely she still won't be 100% so am planning a relaxing holiday later in the year 😀

[Dreamingofsunnydays]

11 hours ago, sedra said:

No - it’s a queue system. General consensus is: 

1) log in Seetickets before 9am

2) be placed in random queue and wait to see if you get to the front

3) don’t use multiple browsers or devices except 1 wi-fi IP on a laptop and one 4/5g on a phone or you might be flagged as a bot and get kicked out 

4) Do Not press F5/refreshing except if you get the tickets are all allocated message once you are in the booking form

5) pray to the ticket gods

 

Jesus. It’s going to be even more chaotic than normal. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

6 minutes ago, Dreamingofsunnydays said:

Jesus. It’s going to be even more chaotic than normal. 

 

Doubt it.  It's essentially a ballot, so it's going to be eerily calm.