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I can't remember which festival it was, possibly isle of Wight... But I'm sure last year one festival had a safe exchange of tickets available. Not sure how it worked.

There are a few ways to do it though -more little resales (maybe at e.g. 10am every Monday the returned tickets go on sale); a waiting list; tickets go on sale as they are returned... If you're super late to the party you could pick your ticket up at a gate on the day. Assuming tickets have bar codes if a physical ticket has already been sent to a person who is selling then you just make sure that person's ticket is void (which gives people more reason not to trust out of the system resales as the ticket might be void)....

There are some issues with this, for See this is a unique sale and the costs involved in running will be far higher than any other event, its in their best interest that sales are done infrequently and quickly otherwise it starts eating into their profits.

The other issue is with the tickets, while they are still paper tickets they cannot just print adhoc ones as they get closer to the festival. They are sent to specialist printers in batches, meaning that they would have to print a stock of non-photo tickets to handle these late sales (exactly what they did in 2008), this would mean there is an opening for professional touts to pick up these tickets and sell them for several times there face value. I know GFL are proud, rightly, of the fact they have eliminated professional touting from their event and doubt they want to leave an opening for them to return, even in small numbers.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was a move to e-tickets after the fallow year, the technology is certainly tried and tested at this point. Should mean that resales can be held later, as well as removing the issues with lost/stolen/undelivered tickets that crop up every year.

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Hi All, Now I know this won't make up for the fact you're still trying for glasto tickets but I have 2 weekend tickets for the Sound City festival in Liverpool this weekend (won them but can't go

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I have just realised someone gave me 2 downvotes too in this thread yesterday, just for asking politely for a link? Made me a bit sad tbh as I'm new here and now my rep is horrible

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This thread is titled 'Secret Resales'. That was the whole point. However it now seems to have been high-jacked by people advocating getting in illegally. Hardly the spirit of Glastonbury. We all know

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Damn. Have been sat on the addreg page for days with my details all completed.

A rethink is required I guess...

Actually could still be a useful strategy. I was doing the same last week, and the page changed to 'event not found' (or page, can't remember) shortly before the sale went live, indicating something was going on at See. Plus, when it did come up, the real order form completed automatically so it saved a lot of time with shaky fingers. Good luck, hope you get your ticket.

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Actually could still be a useful strategy. I was doing the same last week, and the page changed to 'event not found' (or page, can't remember) shortly before the sale went live, indicating something was going on at See. Plus, when it did come up, the real order form completed automatically so it saved a lot of time with shaky fingers. Good luck, hope you get your ticket.

Thanks Dizzy and Good luck to us all !!

Certainly feels like the last throw of the dice

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I said it before, and I'll say it again... But I personally think that they should do a presale the week before...

They should sell 10,000 or so tickets in person around the country in major cities and at the farm... Split it up between the likes of Worthy Farm, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff, etc... Going to a place like a gig arena or stadium. You give them your reg number and postcode, etc so they can put it through the system.

It'd give the extra determined people a bit more of a chance for a ticket.

I know that if it took me queueing for 6 hours outside the O2 on a Sunday morning to pretty much guarantee a ticket, I would do it.

Then you'd still have the general, resale and SR afterwards if you weren't so lucky.

That's a dreadful idea, totally unfair. What about the people who don't live anywhere near major towns and cities?

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Do you mean:

http://glastonbury.seetickets.com/event/glastonbury-2015/worthy-farm/850002/?mobile=remove

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Still works fine - putting AddRegistrations directly in your browser has never worked as it needs you to submit the form above

I still have a window open with the addregistrations page working. It was certainly up about 30 mins ago as I got to it directly from the link on the page before.

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That happened to my friend's group that I would have got tickets for, but I don't blame the system I blame a lack of organisation/communication in the group(s)

Our strategy has always been to have a Facebook group set up where everybody who wants tickets (or wants to help) joins. Everybody's ticket registration details are in the group.

On the day we will then pick the people we most want to camp with (or people that have got us our tickets down the years ... or someone that we know will drive us there ;) ) and have their details alongside yours handy for if you get through.

In the past, I think you could have more people per booking and also I am sure the session was valid for longer (allowing you to go back through the browser and start from scratch, buying more people tickets). So we were usually successful in getting everyone in the group a ticket.

Things have gotten trickier in recent years due to less success getting through to the booking page, seemingly less time to process the order (shorter session validity period?), less bookings per transaction and more demand to be in this Facebook group! This coupled with the politics within the said group (due to the multiple relationship split ups etc there are now 2 camps within our circle of friends so that various ex-couples can be kept apart... I know right?!) has meant we are increasingly relying on resales etc to ensure everybody gets a ticket.

I didn't get tickets in the regular sales for last year's festival because our organisation, as a group, was so poor. So much time wasted as people had to guess who didn't already have tickets when they entered a batch of details in.

Someone says "I'm through! I'm adding a,b,c,d,e and f" so someone assumes all those purchases are sorted and so adds "g, h, i, j, k and L"..

The problem is that if, say, "b" and "e" have tickets already purchased and in the subsequent faffing trying to replace them with someone else or even just remove them and then the session times out and you're back in the "queue" and the inevitable "SOLD OUT" message appears then the poor feckers a,c,d and f are left ticketless and in despair!

This isn't the fault of Glastonbury or Seetickets though and as a system I am pretty sure it is as fair as it can realistically be... thankfully with less people to sort out and a good number of people trying, I managed to get a ticket in last year's resale and had a bloody good festival :) Perhaps it meant that little bit more having almost missed out? :) A nice little reminder that we can't take our Glastonbury Festival access for granted :)

By the way; I hope the rumours are true and that there will be another resale today... but I find 5pm on a Friday a ridiculous time for a resale? Surely a lot of people will be leaving work... I'll keep an eye out for you guys nonetheless :)

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