Smeble
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These sort of sales really do only favour the wealthy( nothing wrong with being wealthy) but doesn't really fit in with glastonburys hippie past.
It's like Chris Evens children n need thing where he auctions rides in his ferraris, I'm sure it raises lots of money but the only people who can hope to win are the sort of people who think nothing of spending £60k on a Porsche for their firstborn at 17. Your average punter has no hope.
A raffle would be much fairer, £10 a ticket, winner gets drawn out of a hat.
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A-ha European tour ends May 1st Oslo.
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I was on and off site for about 2 weeks after this year collecting fencing. Not working the festival but worth mentioning some of the guys we encountered whilst doing our job.
The guys working the JCB forklifts couldn't have been more helpful in trying to track down specific stacks of fencing that got spread all over the site, if you need to find something in the clean up, these are the guys to ask.
Couple of the guys manning the little huts on junctions around the site, very friendly and helpful.
There were quite a few bedraggled looking people scouring the ground for metal, very tedious and thankless job, especially in the heat, most didn't look as if they had showered for at least a week.
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Get yourself a panto cow costume and blend in with the herd, may be a bit uncomfortable come milking time though.
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Lol you could go and watch the chavs race up and down cheddar gorge
I read the camper an fields open at 8am Tuesday.
Campfires and that many gas bottles in such a tight space would be a bad idea.
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Bittersweet success. I got through once (securing my tickets - woohoo!). In the 29th minute, I got through again and got to the point of putting in payment details, hitting 'pay', and they went. Seconds before. Takes the shine off it when so many have missed out...
This happened to us last year, my iPad nearly learnt to fly!
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Does seem slightly unfair that if you have any payment issues they cancel it and you lose your hard won ticket.
We missed our last payment for IOW due to the debit card expiring and not noticing, email from TM asking us to call them to pay by another means, gave us a week to respond, good job as TM don't seem to employ anyone to answer the phone, but it got done eventually.
I wonder how many resale tickets are failed deposit tickets from October, quite a few I'd imagine.
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It looks like any other farm for most of the year
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Hmm no idea how any of it works, my iPad was on the page from 8.30, refreshed at 8.59, straight onto holding page.3g connection.
Wife's laptop ( Windows 10 IE) on wired broadband never got a sniff of the website from 8.30 through to after sold out.
Tried my iphone at 9.15, (3G) straight on holding page.
Despite furious refreshing didn't see the ticket page.
Rang friend at 9.20 who wife casually mentioned was trying for tickets( first I knew of this) who got our tickets at 9.30
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Colourful wellies and shorts is the height of fashion, isn't it?
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Title says it all really, just wondering what's changed since 2007, my memories of then( other than having a brilliant time) is lots of mud, it taking an age to get between stages and god awful queues for the bars.
Went to IOW this year for the first time and have to say the queue system for the bars was fantastic, don't think I queued for more than 4 or at most 5 minutes all weekend.
I know a couple of stages have changed name since 2007, and a couple extra added I think,
Anything else I should be aware of?
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There's a perception outside of the festival community that there's no point trying for tickets as they are impossible to get and that the same people 'in the know' get them every year. This is added to by headlines every year that only care about how quickly they sell out etc.
A loyalty scheme for regulars would only make this perception worse and in reality would mean considerably fewer tickets for everyone else.( who have just as much right to go)
So what? I hear you say, well there probably aren't enough 'regulars' to sustain Glastonbury and its a fine line between generating the hype to sell out and turning people off a festival. If enough people think it's not worth bothering trying for tickets then all of a sudden it stops selling out in 30 min, then you get headlines about the demise of Glastonbury and things start to snowball.
Add that to the rumours that Michael Eavis is looking for a way out of doing the festival( I'm local to the site and there's all sorts of rumours floating around from just knocking it on the head, moving it to the bath and west show ground and 'selling' it to someone else and moving to a different part of the country) and I think you risk turning it into a clique club and killing it completely.
Glastonbury is a huge operation, he loses the use of his farm( and 2 others) for a minimum 2 months every year, if the weather is bad then it's even longer, the clean up is a nightmare, just getting all the pegs and other metal off the farm is a major task involving people scouring the fields in large groups and tractors with huge magnets on them. Rather than looking after regulars big businesses lifeblood is new blood.
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I'm no expert on these things but with 118000 transactions to process some will take longer than others to complete, I wouldn't panic. If you have had the confirmation email then you have tickets( subject to paying for them obviously)
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First post on here so Hello
Didn't get our confirmation email until 12.43
Got our tickets at 9.30, well a friend did, didn't get a sniff of them ourselves, never do.
Campervan Tickets in resale
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There's bound to be a few people who buy cv tickets who then don't go or people who buy cv tickets and then decide to tent it instead. With no option of private resale, they will go into the resale pot along with entry tickets. Can't imagine the numbers being large though.