Apologise Now Eavis

[Gary]

Took me awhile to get through but all good. System was busy as ever but not really a lot they can do I guess. It's a lot of tickets and a lot of people. All good.

[Freewheelin]

Its not really 180,000 is it

[bombfrog]

interesting- that's a fast Internet connection to totally fail you. I was using IE with my work's 100MB T1 connection and got in the queue immediately.

[wacko]

I don't want to rub it in for people who didn't get tickets but I'd already decided I wasn't going next year as I'm getting married and need to save the pennies for the wedding. However I got curious as to how busy traffic was and ended up following the link from facebook straight to the ticket sales page with no queue on two separate occasions. I'm not saying that it was the same for everyone but i did find it weird that i had 4 friends who were all trying none stop from 8:50am till tickets sold out who couldnt even get onto the website. (i didnt know they didnt get any till after they'd sold out or i would have offered to get them when i was on the age)

Maybe i was just lucky, I have to admit though the temptation to buy a ticket was huge but i dont think my fiancee would be too happy. (although i did try to make the excuse it could be my stage-do)

[lord moredon]

by 9:30 I managed to get through on 6 different pages at the same time and get 18 tickets you must have been doing it all wrong.

[Derby_Dave]

There is an element of luck required and a deal of persistance.

I was on at 8.55 and had my tickets by 9.09am and confirmation e mail at 9.17.

Easiest for a while but got friends that took 4 hours and clearly some obviously not at all.

Edited October 3, 2010 by Derby_Dave

[Gary]

The speed of your internet connection will have made no difference. The server at the other end can only deal with a certain number of connections and it has no idea how long the request took to get from your computer so has no way of prioritising your connection.

The only thing a fast connection helps you with is to make more attempts in a shorter space of time, but even that isn't necessarily so because the majority of the time is spent waiting for the request to timeout.

[venuss]

Well Neil

This year the cookie crumbled on me, and i lost out

From 8.55am to 1.15pm with a 15 minute break I was opening, clossing, refreshing, clicking on every link on the back door thread, calling

and, I did not get a ticket

It's ok for you one of your friends got you your ticket

I didn't have anyone to help me

There's more people that want tickets than there are tickets. Some people will always have to lose out, and this it it seems that unfortunately includes you and not someone else. It's how the cookie crumbles.

Edited October 3, 2010 by venuss

[bunchy]

A twat with a Glasto ticket.

[eFestivals]

The funny thing was I found it harder to get on this site than See tickets!!

whereas I had no problem getting on here, but didn't get a sniff of the booking page on see (a mate got my tickets fortunately).

Which just gets to show that these things truely are random.

[eFestivals]

Well Neil

This year the cookie crumbled on me, and i lost out

From 8.55am to 1.15pm with a 15 minute break I was opening, clossing, refreshing, clicking on every link on the back door thread, calling

and, I did not get a ticket

It's ok for you one of your friends got you your ticket

I didn't have anyone to help me

sorry you lost out. Some people were always going to lose out tho, however things were done.

I don't happen to agree with the setup they've got where a person who buys one set of tickets has priority to buy more - but I don't object to the point that I'd refuse to take advantage of it. It's there, and others are too. I want a ticket no less than you do or anyone else.

One year it'll be me that loses out. It'll even out eventually.

[DevilMadeMeDoIt]

I got my tickets at 9:01am. Did'nt have problem. But i tell you what if i did'nt get tickets i would just put it down to bad luck and get on with my life. There's more people who want tickets than available tickets, its not hard to work out.

[theampersanddevil]

yup, also had problems getting on here and no problem getting on seeticket.

[LusciousLucy]

Oh Miss Venuss...naughty lady...

you know you should have contacted us...bugger bugger bugger...we would have helped hun in every single way possible.

Shit...not happy now

[Craigston]

The speed of your internet connection will have made no difference. The server at the other end can only deal with a certain number of connections and it has no idea how long the request took to get from your computer so has no way of prioritising your connection.

The only thing a fast connection helps you with is to make more attempts in a shorter space of time, but even that isn't necessarily so because the majority of the time is spent waiting for the request to timeout.

[Helsbels]

It did seem a bit strange this year how some people had no trouble getting through time and time again yet other people couldn't even get near the queue. We have about 40 of us going and had got into groups of 8 to try and buy tickets. Most of us have been before and are fairly well practised at this. I started trying at about 8.45 at home using an Orange broadband connection with firefox. We had a laptop and pc and right up until midday didn't get to an actual seetickets page once. Luckily the people we go with and others were all on Facebook getting registration numbers swapped etc and every single one of us is now happy. I do however realise that I would have been stuck this year if it wasn't for in my case a friend of a friend. I understand that there is more demand than tickets but don't understand how some people could get through really easily while others found it impossible.

[cejx]

For some and mainly for those who had already been successful. There are some inequalities in the way See has implemented their system and that by far is the biggest of them.

[shevvy]

I never got anywhere near see tickets let alone any further despite using ever trick in the book then some!!!I would have been happy with a queue screen let alone a ticket but hey ho.I have never known it to be this bad or to put it better feel so far away from a ticket even though i had 2 computers and 2 phones working overtime.Guess it proves how special glasto is to so many people

[DevilMadeMeDoIt]

I tried to get on through my broadband at home which is with talktalk, no luck with that. Logged into work and used my browser there got straight in. I work for a German company so my proxy server and network is in Germany. Strange

[jameshunt]

but everyone is open to the same 'inequalities'. I didn't use the 'back button' having completed a transaction (i'll be honest, I had no idea you could), it was a 'fresh' transaction each time. I managed to get tix for Ivan on efest (as we are FB friends)- would have tried for more efesters, but I had the other issue, which was i could not get anywhere near these forums! It was bloody impossible!

However, in the interest of fairness, I'd like to see the number of transactions per person reduced back down to 4.

[cassandra13]

Didn't get there last year but this year tried continuously from 8:45, got on the queue page 5-6 times and got thrown off, then got back on and stayed there for 1hour 15, finlly got onto the buying page at about 12pm and bought 2 tickets. I do not have a brilliantly quick computer and connections from S Devon are poor, no phone lines available. It seems just luck whether or not you could get through. I can't see that it is anyone persons fault if some don't get tickets, certainly not Michael Eavis's

[cheeseisamazing]

hey guys. i'm not gonna start kicking off like a twat or anything, but i think there might of been some unfairness in the quing system.

me and my mates couldn't get tickets, been up since 8:50 trying (next time getting up earlier), so it gets to 12 and we start scream at each othr down the phone. one of my mates bros goes on, was quing for 20mins and bam, gets on. (annoyingly only gets a ticket for his bro, but fairplay) anyway. i eventually get onto efestivals (not insulting efestival survers, obviously they were gonna be packed ) and read that if you use 3g on a iphone you can get through.

so i tell my mate, he trys it, 10mins, he gets in.

now it may just be shear luck, bt it seems to worked for a few people, and its strange that his i-phone worked in 10mins when 5-6 computures (and some of these had good internet connection) couldn't get on at all, most couldn't even que. luckily most of us got tickets through him, and i'm not complaning, but it just seems unfair that other people had been on for hours with no success and the iphone got us stright there. i dunno, i just think there might be something with these internet connections.

to mr 'i demand a appology of eavis' its not his surver, i'm sure he'd be upset to hear you didn't get a ticket and that maby there was some unfairness, but you can't demand anything off a man that gives so much!

[Glasto fan]

Is this the quickest they've ever sold out??

[bombfrog]

I don't really know enough tech to argue with you but I'm sure it makes more of a difference than you make out as I have never failed when I've tried to get tickets.

[MrZigster]

yeah, but if there was that perfect queuing system, everyone would join the queue in the same second - and some would believe they couldn't have been beaten to it, and would still be unhappy.

Ultimately, the unhappiness comes from the losing out, and not from why a person has lost out.

As I keep pointing out, some were always going to lose out. That's just how it is, unfortunately.