Long time lurker here; have been using this forum for some time and picked up some great tips along the way, so happy to give something back and share our mixed success from Sunday.
We had two groups trying, all on varying devices but mainly using the Auto Refresh extensions available for Chrome and Edge; no IP hacks were used. Only myself and one other out of 9 got to the reg details page at just after 0905, and I was the one who eventually secured payment.
What was strange for us was my payment appeared to "time out", as the countdown that appears when you submit your card details reached 0 seconds and prompted me to try again. Despite navigating back to the previous page, I basically got a "no response from server" message before, quite remarkably, I received an email with a confirmation message at 0910 saying I had been successful in securing deposits.
My point here is that perhaps some payments are in fact honoured by the system, despite the website saying the opposite? I did go through verification with my bank, so not sure if SeeTickets just accept payments once authorisation has been received from the bank? Admittedly I did try browsing back to the main sales screen to try for our second group, and the tab that I had successfully bought tickets from was the only one that returned the reg details page. However, after 2 failed submissions, I was booted back to the holding page and never saw it again; we'll be trying in the resale for our other 4 mates. This makes me slightly distrusting of the video that's doing the rounds showing this trick off, as it didn't actually show someone try to submit registrations once they had navigated back to the reg details page.
Finally, to all this talk of a ballot...I couldn't think of anything worse 😅 I would much rather miss out on tickets by giving it my all in a sales process everyone else has to go through vs. relying on a black box ballot exercise that could just as easily, if not moreso, claim to be rigged!
Commiserations to those who missed out and well done to those who are heading to the farm next year 👍
