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[spikytom]

I'm lucky enough to have a ticket already but a lot of my mates will be trying on sunday, and I'll be trying on their behalf as well. In preparation for the big day I put together a list of top tips for resale success which I've circulated amongst them, but I thought they might be worth sharing on here too! They're mostly common sense or gathered from other threads on this forum but I reckon its worth having all the tips in one handy thread.

I've done a top 10 but please add anything i've missed below! Best of luck to all those trying for tickets on sunday by the way!

1. Start checking the site from about 8:45, they sometimes open the bookings early!

2. Try a variety of browsers. We used firefox, IE, chrome, opera and safari. Opera with ‘turbo mode’ enabled kept getting us through to the ‘queue’ page, although we actually finally got the tickets through internet explorer!

3. I think its best to just have one of each browser window open with 3-4 tabs on each, rather than loads and loads of windows/ tabs, as this might slow down the computer and lower your chances. Obviously make use of multiple computers if you have them.

4. Have your reg numbers, addresses/ postcodes and bank details in a document and double checked beforehand so you can just paste them in to save time when you get through.

5. If you’ve got a smartphone (or anything else) with 3g, use it. It didn’t work for us but I’ve heard some people got through straight away on 3g

6. Don’t waste too much (if any) effort phoning – the people in the call centre are using the same booking system as everyone else so will still have to wait to get the booking page up, and your chances of speaking to anyone are next to nothing! Better to use the time to refresh the page instead.

7. The ‘queue’ page you get through to before the booking page is not a real queue – it just refreshes every 20 seconds and waits for a connection to become available. You’re much better off refreshing/ hitting f5 manually on this page. It might kick you out of the queue page once you’re on it but don’t worry if it does, just keep trying.

8. On the original ticket day there was a bug (?) that meant that once you had completed a booking, you could press back and jump the queue and book more immediately. I didn’t try this and I’m not sure if they will have fixed it but its definitely worth a try.

9. Check efestivals because if anyone finds a backdoor link etc it’ll get posted up on there.

10. If you can, consider VPNing (or even physically going) into work and using their connection as its likely to be a lot faster than your home one!

[poromenos]

spikytom, on 15 April 2011 - 08:29 AM, said:

8. On the original ticket day there was a bug (?) that meant that once you had completed a booking, you could press back and jump the queue and book more immediately. I didn’t try this and I’m not sure if they will have fixed it but its definitely worth a try.

Is it a bug ? can anyone confirm that it actually works?

[Morse Code]

poromenos, on 15 April 2011 - 09:31 PM, said:

Is it a bug ? can anyone confirm that it actually works?

It worked back in October but it's one of the things Seetickets got heavily criticised for as some people were able to book over and over again for friends etc, whereas others couldn't get anywhere near the booking page despite hours of 'queueing'.

There's a good chance they will have fixed it this time round.

[Stu H]

it doesn't help when seetickets shitty system crashes all the time

[halvin]

Morse Code, on 15 April 2011 - 09:36 PM, said:

It worked back in October but it's one of the things Seetickets got heavily criticised for as some people were able to book over and over again for friends etc, whereas others couldn't get anywhere near the booking page despite hours of 'queueing'.

There's a good chance they will have fixed it this time round.

Actually, it's been like that for years. Tickets haven't been in such demand in the past few years so it hasn't been noticeable but it was definitely like that in 2007.

There's a good chance that people who are able to go back and book more tickets won't be able to do it many times because tickets will sell out fairly quickly, I'm sorry to say.

[StoneCircle]

Here is the information needed in the order it comes up once you get that precious page up, handy to get all the information typed into word beforehand to save a typo!! I usually am literally unable to type due to the stress of the situation! I have added it to a few threads already so apologies if you have seen before and I hope its useful!!

screen one
number of tickets
registration numbers for each person
postcode (used for registration) for each person

screen two
confirming the names & the primary postal address, this will default to that of the 1st person entered

screen three
email
email confirm
long card number
start date
end date
issue number (if applicable)
CVV number
contact phone number

screen four
confirms purchase from see

And breathe!!!   Then spend remainder of day checking for an e mail as you still don't believe you have a ticket!!  

Thank you to Spike on Vloody Cloody for this!!

[Madyokel]

Good luck everybody.

One thing that I noticed last night in smallish print at the bottom of the lineup was a statement that the maximum tickets per transaction in  the resale was 4.

[pie_and_a_pint]

I'd get on earlier that 8.45am to be honest.  We were bought and paid for well before that in 2009.

Good luck everyone - I firmly believe that those who want to, will.

[III]

Really nervous about Sunday. Been the last five and can't imagine not going for two years!!!

[bluejeans10]

pie_and_a_pint, on 15 April 2011 - 10:55 PM, said:

We were bought and paid for well before that in 2009.

Crazy how the demand was so low in 2009 compared to last year and this year.
I just checked my email confirmation from 2009 and I'd booked on Monday 24th November '08.

Ta for the tips, I think I'm going to try the phone internet method and see how it goes.
Booking for a friend but it's still the most stressful thing ever.
Good luck all.

[paulbrock]

pie_and_a_pint, on 15 April 2011 - 10:55 PM, said:

I'd get on earlier that 8.45am to be honest.  We were bought and paid for well before that in 2009.

Good luck everyone - I firmly believe that those who want to, will.

how much earlier? 8:30? 8?

[halvin]

paulbrock, on 15 April 2011 - 11:55 PM, said:

how much earlier? 8:30? 8?

Tickets went on sale at 8:10 one year, I believe. I got to the computer around 8:45, expecting to be early, and found that the seetickets site had already seized up. I think that year was an exception.

[Pooog]

When you got tickets before 9am, were you using the normal http://www.seetickets.com/g2011/? link, or something else?

I tried on that link @ 8.45am in October, it just brought up the normal screen you can see now.

[Pooog]

Ooops - stupid double post from my creaking lappy... doesn't bode well for tomorrow!

Edited by Pooog, 16 April 2011 - 08:56 AM.

[Alcatraz]

halvin, on 16 April 2011 - 12:01 AM, said:

Tickets went on sale at 8:10 one year, I believe. I got to the computer around 8:45, expecting to be early, and found that the seetickets site had already seized up. I think that year was an exception.

That was 08 wasn't it. Think I logged on here at 8:20 and people were saying they'd already got tickets! Of course that year was generally low demand

[rhysieg]

The most obvious tip is to have lots of people trying and get anybody who can help... Obviously someone you trust with bank details....

[Al2006]

A good tip is

Use firefox and a plugin called "Check4Change" - use custom settings and I set it to refresh the page every second and as soon as the page changes (tickets go on sale) it will notify you!

[streetdaddy]

Similar to above, use ChromeReload http://goo.gl/JUMP in Chrome and get as many computers and laptops going as you can!

[paulbrock]

streetdaddy, on 16 April 2011 - 10:01 AM, said:

Similar to above, use ChromeReload http://goo.gl/JUMP in Chrome and get as many computers and laptops going as you can!

that'll save my F5 key Though it won't stop when you get through will it?  Will have to keep an eye on it.

Edited by paulbrock, 16 April 2011 - 10:27 AM.

[LondonTom]

paulbrock, on 16 April 2011 - 10:25 AM, said:

that'll save my F5 key Though it won't stop when you get through will it?  Will have to keep an eye on it.

The firefox one does, might experiment with the chrome one for a mate tonight!