Top tips for the resale

[spikytom]

I'm lucky enough to have a ticket already but a lot of my mates will be trying on sunday, and I'll be trying on their behalf as well. In preparation for the big day I put together a list of top tips for resale success which I've circulated amongst them, but I thought they might be worth sharing on here too! They're mostly common sense or gathered from other threads on this forum but I reckon its worth having all the tips in one handy thread.

I've done a top 10 but please add anything i've missed below! Best of luck to all those trying for tickets on sunday by the way!

1. Start checking the site from about 8:45, they sometimes open the bookings early!

2. Try a variety of browsers. We used firefox, IE, chrome, opera and safari. Opera with ‘turbo mode’ enabled kept getting us through to the ‘queue’ page, although we actually finally got the tickets through internet explorer!

3. I think its best to just have one of each browser window open with 3-4 tabs on each, rather than loads and loads of windows/ tabs, as this might slow down the computer and lower your chances. Obviously make use of multiple computers if you have them.

4. Have your reg numbers, addresses/ postcodes and bank details in a document and double checked beforehand so you can just paste them in to save time when you get through.

5. If you’ve got a smartphone (or anything else) with 3g, use it. It didn’t work for us but I’ve heard some people got through straight away on 3g

6. Don’t waste too much (if any) effort phoning – the people in the call centre are using the same booking system as everyone else so will still have to wait to get the booking page up, and your chances of speaking to anyone are next to nothing! Better to use the time to refresh the page instead.

7. The ‘queue’ page you get through to before the booking page is not a real queue – it just refreshes every 20 seconds and waits for a connection to become available. You’re much better off refreshing/ hitting f5 manually on this page. It might kick you out of the queue page once you’re on it but don’t worry if it does, just keep trying.

8. On the original ticket day there was a bug (?) that meant that once you had completed a booking, you could press back and jump the queue and book more immediately. I didn’t try this and I’m not sure if they will have fixed it but its definitely worth a try.

9. Check efestivals because if anyone finds a backdoor link etc it’ll get posted up on there.

10. If you can, consider VPNing (or even physically going) into work and using their connection as its likely to be a lot faster than your home one!

[poromenos]

8. On the original ticket day there was a bug (?) that meant that once you had completed a booking, you could press back and jump the queue and book more immediately. I didn’t try this and I’m not sure if they will have fixed it but its definitely worth a try.

[Morse Code]

Is it a bug ? can anyone confirm that it actually works?

[Stu H]

it doesn't help when seetickets shitty system crashes all the time

[halvin]

It worked back in October but it's one of the things Seetickets got heavily criticised for as some people were able to book over and over again for friends etc, whereas others couldn't get anywhere near the booking page despite hours of 'queueing'.

There's a good chance they will have fixed it this time round.

[StoneCircle]

Here is the information needed in the order it comes up once you get that precious page up, handy to get all the information typed into word beforehand to save a typo!! I usually am literally unable to type due to the stress of the situation! I have added it to a few threads already so apologies if you have seen before and I hope its useful!!

screen one

number of tickets

registration numbers for each person

postcode (used for registration) for each person

screen two

confirming the names & the primary postal address, this will default to that of the 1st person entered

screen three

email

email confirm

long card number

start date

end date

issue number (if applicable)

CVV number

contact phone number

screen four

confirms purchase from see

And breathe!!! Then spend remainder of day checking for an e mail as you still don't believe you have a ticket!!

Thank you to Spike on Vloody Cloody for this!!

[Madyokel]

Good luck everybody.

One thing that I noticed last night in smallish print at the bottom of the lineup was a statement that the maximum tickets per transaction in the resale was 4.

[pie_and_a_pint]

I'd get on earlier that 8.45am to be honest. We were bought and paid for well before that in 2009.

Good luck everyone - I firmly believe that those who want to, will.

[WS_Jack_III]

Really nervous about Sunday. Been the last five and can't imagine not going for two years!!!

[bluejeans10]

We were bought and paid for well before that in 2009.

[paulbrock]

I'd get on earlier that 8.45am to be honest. We were bought and paid for well before that in 2009.

Good luck everyone - I firmly believe that those who want to, will.

[halvin]

how much earlier? 8:30? 8?

[Pooog]

When you got tickets before 9am, were you using the normal http://www.seetickets.com/g2011/? link, or something else?

I tried on that link @ 8.45am in October, it just brought up the normal screen you can see now.

[Pooog]

Ooops - stupid double post from my creaking lappy... doesn't bode well for tomorrow!

Edited April 16, 2011 by Pooog

[Alcatraz]

Tickets went on sale at 8:10 one year, I believe. I got to the computer around 8:45, expecting to be early, and found that the seetickets site had already seized up. I think that year was an exception.

[rhysieg]

The most obvious tip is to have lots of people trying and get anybody who can help... Obviously someone you trust with bank details....

[Al2006]

A good tip is

Use firefox and a plugin called "Check4Change" - use custom settings and I set it to refresh the page every second and as soon as the page changes (tickets go on sale) it will notify you!

[streetdaddy]

Similar to above, use ChromeReload http://goo.gl/JUMP in Chrome and get as many computers and laptops going as you can!

[paulbrock]

Similar to above, use ChromeReload http://goo.gl/JUMP in Chrome and get as many computers and laptops going as you can!

Edited April 16, 2011 by paulbrock

[LondonTom]

that'll save my F5 key Though it won't stop when you get through will it? Will have to keep an eye on it.

[Liam13th]

Don't even bother ringing up.

[GlastoEls]

it doesn't help when seetickets shitty system crashes all the time

[King Kong]

Don't even bother ringing up.

[Nyika]

Demand must have been low in October 08, I remember forgetting to log on until about 11am and I had tickets by 11:05!

[topmarksbri]

I seem to remember some people saying they got them really easy through 3g on their phones so that's always worth a try