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Totally. Couldn't possibly start thinking about anything else. Best of eFests Luck to everyone!

My understanding is that if someone gets through the registrations & postcodes page to the next page where the names and addresses are confirmed, then after that anyone who tries to enter any of the same registrations/postcodes and hits Proceed from that first entry page, will be locked out for 10 mins before they can try again. The first person will not be locked out and can proceed in the normal manner So this is only a problem if anyone in the group you're buying for is also in another group, and someone gets through to the names/address confirmation page without telling you. If they tell you, you can take the people in that other group that got through first off your list of registrations and go through with the remaining registrations with no problem

Yes it is a bit confusing isn't it? If it's asking for a Billing Address then that *has* to be the one registered to the payment card, surely. Usually that would also be the lead booker and hence also the 'delivery address', but as we know all the tickets (if this is general admission, not coach) go to each of the individuals, not the lead booker, anyway. Plus, anyone can change where their ticket is delivered to by going on See's customer service page. So maybe the fact that it calls this 'delivery' is a bit misleading and doesn't mean anything?

Yes indeed - I've bought tickets for my kids and their mates, didn't include me in the list of registrations/postcodes at all (and, amazingly, they paid me back!) 😄

Yep totally, sorry didn't make that clear, yes I've done that also

Yes, you do need to enter a name and address that matches the one for the credit/debit card you're paying with, definitely, or else the payment will fail

Yep, looks like the only options for Edinburgh this year were Tuesday night at 21:00; 22:30, on the "Wednesday" choice... (Not sure if Glasgow was the same, tbf...)

On Auto Refresh Plus I chose to look for "Postcode:" to trigger the stop/alert

Auto Refresh Plus is the one I've gone for on Chrome - it has a Page Monitor that looks for specified text appearing, or disappearing

When you're trying for tickets with a group who are, shall we say, a tad less than technically literate, this is what keeps me awake at night...

It looks from this anecdotal list as though there are more Wednesday coaches, but I don't think this is a definitive list:

I'm fairly sure you can pay with any credit / debit card that gets successfully authorised for the sale amount - I've certainly paid with one registered to a different address to the lead booker on several occasions

You can do it with any text expander plugin or app, but as you say it's also built-in to Macs - go to General->Keyboards->Text Replacement Windows doesn't have any sort of comparable system as far as I'm aware, so it's down to a text expander app or plugin

There are several ‘text expander’ Chrome plugins that will do this - a popular one is Magical Text Expander but plenty others too, free ones usually do all you need

See what others think, but I would say that if you went straight in for a Thursday ticket on the stroke of 6pm, you'd stand a *much* better chance than going for Wednesday straight off.... so many of us really value our Wednesdays at the fest... 😄

Quite agree, but I think that's true for all departure locations, nothing special about Bristol / London in that regard

Yes from what I remember of last year, you pick Wednesday or Thursday before you even go into the 'queue', so after that choice you face hammering away at the holding page of doom (only to go right back to the start to ponder choosing Thursday once all the Wednesday tickets have gone, and then queueing all over again....) And once you're through for either day you then pick the departure point next, and for Bristol & London (IIRC) the departure time

Thanks J - I couldn't work out how to do it - Chrome extension Autofill is a great little tool that *can* do it, might stick with that

@Joshuwarr quick question - using Magical Text Expander, can you add some sort of TAB character within a shortcut so that it can move to the next field and fill in the whole form with one shortucut, or do you have to create a shortcut for each reg no. & postcode and enter each one individually?

Agree about Noddy - but zero bangers?? Seriously? Did Mama Weer All Crazee Now and Cum On Feel The Noiz not exist, for starters?

Totally - Richmond has a decent sized bus station which could also then hoover up folks from the Surrey area as well as West London. But even better would be Heathrow to add in addition to the O2 (which itself I suppose must be convenient for those coming in from East / South-east of London), with Heathrow being intentionally very easy to get to, especially with the Elizabeth line going there now as well as all the Heathrow Express, other trains, tubes etc. O2 must be great for some, but it seems odd that it's still the only one for London and all points South and East of it (oops, not to promote any other festivals on here.....😄)

We had to take a car from Ealing this year to the O2 for our coach coz of the tube strike - took about an hour and a half at 6:30 in the morning. Tube would have been a bit over an hour, so at that time of day there’s not a whole lot in it, and it’s easier with the luggage in the car tbh. For four of us it was £25 each, so a bit pricier for the privilege, but worth considering perhaps

Yeah sure - shouldn’t alienate people if paying in full was optional though, you could still just put down the deposit

Yeah I think the refundable Glasto deposit scheme does make a big difference, with people saying we’ll happily pay the £50 in Nov and see how things are next April, when there could be a record number of returns if things haven’t improved. But that still makes it impressive that GM sold out so quickly when you have to pay it all up front (well there is a payment scheme but not sure that’s widely taken up) Or maybe people were thinking if they pay for their GM tickets now before the winter squeeze hits, that’s next year’s festival locked in as something to look forward to? If Glasto had the option to pay in full straight away maybe some would prefer that?

It seems GM sold out in three days, following a pattern of getting more popular every year, so maybe today’s sellout is just part of their trend and doesn’t say too much about Glasto https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58562144