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  1. 20 minutes ago, Talcroft said:

    I was chatting to a scouser about this at twtfpu last year; his explanation was much more low-tech than this. 

     

    However, a scouse friend reckons there are legit ticket farms for locals, using massive syndicates that may have progressed to bots by this point. 

     

    No idea of the truth in any of it but they do look after their own so who knows. 

    It's technically possible to fire up say 100,000 Azure VMs and have a script recognise the booking page and populate ref numbers and postcodes, but it would be fraught with risk.....what are See tickets doing to detect??...you can't test your scripts because you don't know the actual format of the booking page...also what payment method do you use?  If all the same card it would be spotted, if different cards then people would have to hand over all their details.  Large up front cost of setting up system with a high probability of failure.  Easier to just rope in 100 humans, particularly on the first sale where you don't immediately pay.

  2. My favourite bit is just sitting watching people walk past and having random conversations.  My favourite was at 2am talking to a guy carrying a large water cube....I said "You spoil that Goldfish".  He immediately picked up the joke and said "Yeah, he loves it here, comes every year"....his girlfriend coming up behind him couldn't understand why we were talking about Goldfish. 

     

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  3. 1 hour ago, -TLR- said:

    aaaaah yes... the first of many posters that list 99.9% that i never heard of!

    My view is that if I've heard of them they must be on their last legs.....the 0.1% includes Craig Charles (presumably on Thursday afternoon!) which is always a great start to the festival!

  4. 5 hours ago, tarw said:

    Village fete. Chilled, real ale family vibe 

    Perfect size venue.  I would happily spend my Glastonbury time between Park, Avalon and T&C

  5. 9 hours ago, 4AssedMonkey said:

     

    Maybe not, but I still reckon Lulu could be well busy, depending on time/day.  Last ever gig, heritage/nostalgia act.  The ingredients are there.

    It will be like Bruce Forsyth - rammed!

  6. 9 hours ago, Avalon_Fields said:

    Anyone seen Haircut 100? I used to think nothing of them but now reckon they could be fun?

    I used to see Nick Heywood (or is it Heyward?) in Waitrose in Henley.  He played as one of the acts in the town musical advent calendar.  Good sing along stuff....

  7. 4 SeeTickets Team members have joined the meeting.

    SeeTickets Support:  "We've been inundated with calls from people saying they clicked on the link we sent them link but now their registration has disappeared"

    SeeTickets IT Director:  "Yikes. We must have deleted a load of registrations even though people confirmed them."

    SeeTickets Manager: "So how are we going to fix it?  The sale goes live this evening...."

    SeeTickets IT Director:  "Don't worry we'll merge all the deletions back into the database.  It can't be that hard.  I'm sure we have a backup and all the transactions logs from the last few months"

    SeeTickets Database Admin: "Oh f**k"

    SeeTickets Database Admin has left the meeting
     

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  8. The issue with any tech solution is that if it goes wrong, it can go wrong big time for everyone all at same time. With physical paper and wristbands you can do manual workarounds (for example double wristbanding in 2005 floods) or telling punters whose tickets were misdelivered to pick up a tixket at gate A.  Also you are open to unexpected attacks.... so if I knew there was an Ethernet cable I could cut or a generator I could turn off, I might do so in the hope that everyone would be waved in.  Simple physical solutions are often the best ones. 

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