GeoHall Posted March 27, 2013 Report Share Posted March 27, 2013 So after seeing the lineup myself and a few friends have decided we are going to try and get tickets in the resale. What are the chances and what are the best tactics? We are unsure of a number yet but there may be more than five of us wanting to get a ticket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pie_and_a_pint Posted March 27, 2013 Report Share Posted March 27, 2013 Good luck! If you get through you'll need to pay for the whole lot in one big, scary lump on one debit card - five of you is over a grand. Make sure one of you has that available in your bank account! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eodsi Posted March 27, 2013 Report Share Posted March 27, 2013 and cross your fingers.......apart from your F5 finger of course Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimps in Balaclavas Posted March 27, 2013 Report Share Posted March 27, 2013 Have each of you trying on different comps too. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peroni Posted March 27, 2013 Report Share Posted March 27, 2013 You can only buy 4 tix in one transaction.... so you will need to arrange into groups, then make sure everyone has all the reg nos... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffie Posted March 28, 2013 Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5, and keep your eye on this forum for hints and tips on the day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChewieDC Posted March 28, 2013 Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 Well, there is this one DNS trick which gets you ahead in waiting line.... (that's how I got the tickets on sale) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffie Posted March 28, 2013 Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 Didn't that get fixed that day though? Well, there is this one DNS trick which gets you ahead in waiting line.... (that's how I got the tickets on sale) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChewieDC Posted March 28, 2013 Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 Didn't that get fixed that day though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brightyoungthing Posted March 28, 2013 Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5, and keep your eye on this forum for hints and tips on the day! THIS...and maybe a little Pilton prayer!For a little reassurance: I've got tickets twice in resales and my internet wasn't great, just F5, lots of sweating, and a pint for the one guy that got through for about 12 of us! Which reminds me of another tip... a couple of times - resale or general sale - one person has generally got through for everybody in the group, got the maximum tickets and PRESSED 'BACK' to get back in and get the next group of tickets Best of luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlosj Posted March 28, 2013 Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 The DNS trick did work for me, on 2 occasions, but I think the loophole got blocked. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badlands Posted March 28, 2013 Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 Everyone that got through got through out of our group were using Mac's, iphones or ipads. Nobody got through using Windows. That may be a coincidence but there were far more of us using Windows than Apple devices. Also, once the tickets go there's the opportunity of coach packages. Have a contingency plan in place, ask all your friends if they'd be prepared to go by coach. It was easy enough to get tickets for these for about half an hour after normal tickets went. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mail1234 Posted March 28, 2013 Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 Macs seem to work best for some reason, no idea why Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisw16 Posted March 28, 2013 Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 Please can someone explain the DNS trick to me, sorry if it's obvious and I'm just being stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pie_and_a_pint Posted March 28, 2013 Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 Please can someone explain the DNS trick to me, sorry if it's obvious and I'm just being stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bisque Posted March 28, 2013 Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 I have never got through on my Mac using a multitude of web browsers. Only advice is get as many people on the case as possible, share reg numbers & post codes & have enough money in your bank to pay upfront for all the tickets. Chances, nobody knows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harriet Posted March 29, 2013 Report Share Posted March 29, 2013 You can only buy 4 tix in one transaction.... so you will need to arrange into groups, then make sure everyone has all the reg nos... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dead throne Posted March 29, 2013 Report Share Posted March 29, 2013 Get everything ready that could possibly be helfpull Logged into acounts Credit cards Security codes Etc etc Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistress Jones Posted March 29, 2013 Report Share Posted March 29, 2013 I've heard using a very strong connection and static IP (like an office computer) tends to do better than a dynamic/home router Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eoJ Posted March 29, 2013 Report Share Posted March 29, 2013 Good luck! If you get through you'll need to pay for the whole lot in one big, scary lump on one debit card - five of you is over a grand. Make sure one of you has that available in your bank account! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiiWii Posted April 1, 2013 Report Share Posted April 1, 2013 The DNS link was fixed - and if you set your host file to this, make sure you change it back before 21st as you'll only go through to the one server, rather than have a shot at both (http://bigdatablog.co.uk/) Also, I've always seen that any back door (hehe) routes are posted on here, but the chat rooms do tend to crash so I will be getting up EARLY and stalking these threads in plenty of time. I'm sure one year they stopped people logging into the chatrooms during the sale time unless you were already registered / logged in (I could be making this up though) get logged on here in plenty of time. And stalk Twitter too - the DNS tip was on there in October too. Is it only 4? I thought we could buy 8? Good luck everyone, I hope we all win! xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peroni Posted April 1, 2013 Report Share Posted April 1, 2013 Really? That will be gutting as we have 8 friends who didn't get them first time round and was hoping to try for all of them, gonna be difficult to decide who we decide to buy for if we by some remote chance get thru Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
**claire** Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Using a Mac made no difference to me - couldn't get through on my windows laptop either. Persistance & good luck is all that will help us all get tickets on resale day I'm afraid! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan05delaney Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 only real tactic is know someone who works for see or the festival otherwise there is no other real way to get an advantage... the DNS trick worked because there were 2 dedicated servers just for the sale so they could handle the traffic, this time they may not have both because they haven't got as many tickets, the only way we will know is on the sale day and then it could be too little too late... best thing to do is just get up early and be prepared Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Amazing_Oblong Posted April 3, 2013 Report Share Posted April 3, 2013 Social media sites - expand the number of people trying. Just be careful who you give your account details to in the heat of the moment. Other than that just make sure you have everything ready to go and start trying a little before they are due to go up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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