Glastonbury 2025
Discussion
Tickets (for coach packages) go on sale tonight, the main sale is 9am on Sunday.
Which PHers are trying for tickets?
New for this year is the SeeTickets queueing system!
After the debacle of the Oasis one a few months ago I am not hopeful of this going well, although dynamic pricing will not be in play.
Good luck to all of those trying for a ticket.
Which PHers are trying for tickets?
New for this year is the SeeTickets queueing system!
After the debacle of the Oasis one a few months ago I am not hopeful of this going well, although dynamic pricing will not be in play.
Good luck to all of those trying for a ticket.
We had about 50 people trying for 5 x groups of 6 people.
Three people got a buying window, so three of those groups got tickets, two didn’t, including mine.
We had people spinning up all sorts of virtual servers and lots of clever tech but the three people who got in were two people on regular home broadband connections and one on his laptop tethered to his phone using 4G.
In short it seemed like the ‘randomly allocated to a place in the queue’ logic worked, which seems altogether fairer.
Three people got a buying window, so three of those groups got tickets, two didn’t, including mine.
We had people spinning up all sorts of virtual servers and lots of clever tech but the three people who got in were two people on regular home broadband connections and one on his laptop tethered to his phone using 4G.
In short it seemed like the ‘randomly allocated to a place in the queue’ logic worked, which seems altogether fairer.
We’ve always succeeded with multiple devices and spreadsheets in previous years. Just been organised. But for the coach sale just today, nothing. Feels like the run of the last 15 years is over with it being much more random.
I would have said this will bring in a ton of new people and in some ways it’ll dilute the nature of the event but IMO that happened after Covid anyway the magic was gone, instead of people in outrageous outfits and makeup it was addidas T-shirts and bucket hats crew.
Only fair that others get to have a go I say. Luckily I’m sorted anyways as I’m performing same as this year but will be a shame not to have most of my friends there but that’s how it goes I guess.
I would have said this will bring in a ton of new people and in some ways it’ll dilute the nature of the event but IMO that happened after Covid anyway the magic was gone, instead of people in outrageous outfits and makeup it was addidas T-shirts and bucket hats crew.
Only fair that others get to have a go I say. Luckily I’m sorted anyways as I’m performing same as this year but will be a shame not to have most of my friends there but that’s how it goes I guess.
I managed to get a ticket in the general sale on Sunday.
As with the Thursday coach sale I just sat on two bars of the progress line on multiple devices on both home broadband and 5G mobile and just did not venture up the queue.
However I am part of a syndicate with a lot of friends and friends of friends which is 68 wannabe attenders, including some very tech savvy people.
We ended up getting 11 buying windows of 6 across that group so 66 out of our 68 are going. For the third year running a random stranger I have not actually met paid my £75 deposit. I reimbused him on confirmation of the booking 45 mins later.
I'd like to say we have some sort of 'special process' but we don't. The techies in web dev analysed as far as they could what was going on but it does (as advertised) seem to be a waiting room type scenario where everyone in that waiting room is given a token, the priority of which in the queue is predetermined. Once the queue goes lives, the tokens are ranked by priority and if you are towards the front of the queue you get in, at the the back you don't. Much as SeeTickets have been maligned over the years I do think it is as fair as they can make it. effectively a big electronic ballot.
We simply got lucky because we threw numbers at it - we had over 100 people all around the world trying, we only needed 11 of them to get a lucky ticket place in the queue and we were sorted.
As with the Thursday coach sale I just sat on two bars of the progress line on multiple devices on both home broadband and 5G mobile and just did not venture up the queue.
However I am part of a syndicate with a lot of friends and friends of friends which is 68 wannabe attenders, including some very tech savvy people.
We ended up getting 11 buying windows of 6 across that group so 66 out of our 68 are going. For the third year running a random stranger I have not actually met paid my £75 deposit. I reimbused him on confirmation of the booking 45 mins later.
I'd like to say we have some sort of 'special process' but we don't. The techies in web dev analysed as far as they could what was going on but it does (as advertised) seem to be a waiting room type scenario where everyone in that waiting room is given a token, the priority of which in the queue is predetermined. Once the queue goes lives, the tokens are ranked by priority and if you are towards the front of the queue you get in, at the the back you don't. Much as SeeTickets have been maligned over the years I do think it is as fair as they can make it. effectively a big electronic ballot.
We simply got lucky because we threw numbers at it - we had over 100 people all around the world trying, we only needed 11 of them to get a lucky ticket place in the queue and we were sorted.
Edited by Shooter McGavin on Tuesday 19th November 13:06
Shooter McGavin said:
I managed to get a ticket in the general sale on Sunday.
As with the Thursday coach sale I just sat on two bars of the progress line on multiple devices on both home broadband and 5G mobile and just did not venture up the queue.
However I am part of a syndicate with a lot of friends and friends of friends which is 68 wannabe attenders, including some very tech savvy people.
We ended up getting 11 buying windows of 6 across that group so 66 out of our 68 are going. For the third year running a random stranger I have not actually met paid my £75 deposit. I reimbused him on confirmation of the booking 45 mins later.
I'd like to say we have some sort of 'special process' but we don't. The techies in web dev analysed as far as they could what was going on but it does (as advertised) seem to be a waiting room type scenario where everyone in that waiting room is given a token, the priority of which in the queue is predetermined. Once the queue goes lives, the tokens are ranked by priority and if you are towards the front of the queue you get in, at the the back you don't. Much as SeeTickets have been maligned over the years I do think it is as fair as they can make it. effectively a big electronic ballot.
We simply got lucky because we threw numbers at it - we had over 100 people all around the world trying, we only needed 11 of them to get a lucky ticket place in the queue and we were sorted.
Over 100 people around the world trying? As with the Thursday coach sale I just sat on two bars of the progress line on multiple devices on both home broadband and 5G mobile and just did not venture up the queue.
However I am part of a syndicate with a lot of friends and friends of friends which is 68 wannabe attenders, including some very tech savvy people.
We ended up getting 11 buying windows of 6 across that group so 66 out of our 68 are going. For the third year running a random stranger I have not actually met paid my £75 deposit. I reimbused him on confirmation of the booking 45 mins later.
I'd like to say we have some sort of 'special process' but we don't. The techies in web dev analysed as far as they could what was going on but it does (as advertised) seem to be a waiting room type scenario where everyone in that waiting room is given a token, the priority of which in the queue is predetermined. Once the queue goes lives, the tokens are ranked by priority and if you are towards the front of the queue you get in, at the the back you don't. Much as SeeTickets have been maligned over the years I do think it is as fair as they can make it. effectively a big electronic ballot.
We simply got lucky because we threw numbers at it - we had over 100 people all around the world trying, we only needed 11 of them to get a lucky ticket place in the queue and we were sorted.
Edited by Shooter McGavin on Tuesday 19th November 13:06
Seriously, this is the problem, right here
If you're not gonna attend you shouldn't be able to buy tickets
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