Loyalty Scheme or over the counter tickets

[Supermerv]

A loyalty scheme is a terrible idea, just because perople have been a few times doesnt mean they should have any kind of priority to go again, if anything it should work the other way around, if you havnt been before you should get priority so that as many people as possible get to enjoy the Glasto vibe and hopefully finish the weekend feeling a little more enlightened than they were before the attended.

People already complain that Glasto is elitest, a loyalty scheme would only serve to make it moreso.

Edited October 15, 2013 by Supermerv

[jonny2mad]

Well I remember being there when the shop opened to get glastonbury tickets in bristol, the year before they started internet sales and I was alone there was no que whatsoever and I didnt arrive that much before the shop opened .

in fact I felt a bit silly being there before the shop opened, gradually then you started to get a small que of people waiting to be served it was a small shop but it was nothing like january sales or the new iphone .

Before that tickets were not that hard to get

[BA4 4BY]

Nobody should get priority and the chances of getting tickets are as even as they're going to get for everyone as it stands, so things should be left as they are IMHO.

[UEF]

All they need is a website that works a little better than it does now. Everyon should get a holding page and if you start a sale you should be able to complete it without it crashing. That's the best compromise.

If it ever gets to having to queue for and buy tickets in person then I'm out. The glasto-going public can't be trusted to not panic and start building enormous and unncessary queues just like they do in the carpark every year.

[jameshunt]

Demand is greater than supply. It makes great sense for everyone to get the opportunity to go at least once in their lifetime. The current system doesn't provide for that, but is fairer than the usual suspects always getting tickets. The experience tends to give a lot of people a better perspective on life. Certainly a wider one.

I think we're fortunate every time we are successful in the ticket sale. Last year we took two neighbours for their first festival and it was great showing them around. It's not as if these are football season tickets where you have to wait for dead man's shoes in order to purchase one. Nor should it be treated that way.

[carlosj]

Maybe it could be like DFS sales and have a Glastonbury Festival every week, and then we can all go?

[tommyds]

It's not as if these are football season tickets where you have to wait for dead man's shoes in order to purchase one. Nor should it be treated that way.

[pjadnoo]

Now here's an idea!

How about you have to be the son of a glastonbury ticket holder or save the life of glastonbury ticket holder...

[jeffie]

Hand to hand combat in Block 9, now there's a spectacle...

[Abster]

The only kind of loyalty thing I can see them doing is maybe a presale for people who went last year and "left no trace"... Stewards could hand out tokens with presale codes to those who take all their rubbish with them.

[Alcatraz]

Now here's an idea!

How about you have to be the son of a glastonbury ticket holder or save the life of glastonbury ticket holder...

[akradiabra]

All they need is a website that works a little better than it does now. Everyone should get a holding page and if you start a sale you should be able to complete it without it crashing. That's the best compromise.

[Messy]

How about everyone at the front row of the pyramid crowd at each headline set gets a ticket for next year?

Edited October 16, 2013 by Messy

[rachbon]

The ticket buying system is as fair as it can be and shouldn't be changed to favour anyone.

I find it ridiculous that some people think they have more of a right to be at Glastonbury than others.

[AngeB]

Now here's an idea!

How about you have to be the son of a glastonbury ticket holder or save the life of glastonbury ticket holder...

[matt2007]

The ticket buying system is as fair as it can be and shouldn't be changed to favour anyone.

I find it ridiculous that some people think they have more of a right to be at Glastonbury than others.

[Klyde]

Loyalty scheme? Lol

Keep it simple.

Just make a decent effort on ticket day along with everyone else.

Many ways to increase your chances if you want it enough.

[UEF]

A retrospective loyalty scheme would never work anyway - you'd have a hard job establishing exactly who had and hadn't been before (made easier though not quite clean cut with the registration system - er, I mean yah boo Big Brother etc.)

[Peaceman]

Used to work at CND in the 80s and we used to sell tickets at hte reception desk. Always knew the day as you walked round the corner to see the queue. It was always steady and pleasant enough I think. And you always had a few people turn up just before the festival hoping to get one even though all our tickets were gone. Funniest was seeing the odd one or two turn up the week AFTER the festival looking for tickets and not realising they had missed it! Im not saying they may have been a little bit, 'spaced out' shall we say.

[UEF]

Used to work at CND in the 80s and we used to sell tickets at hte reception desk. Always knew the day as you walked round the corner to see the queue. It was always steady and pleasant enough I think. And you always had a few people turn up just before the festival hoping to get one even though all our tickets were gone. Funniest was seeing the odd one or two turn up the week AFTER the festival looking for tickets and not realising they had missed it! Im not saying they may have been a little bit, 'spaced out' shall we say.

[daveinafield]

not so long ago, people would camp outside ticket shops for a couple of days for t in the bleedin' park tickets. such a thing for glasto would be carnage.

[daveinafield]

I disagree about the loyality scheme but do think there should be other avenues of ticket sales than one website/one day. I know this is what I usually go on about, even if it was just more phone lines or a 100,000 ticket applications picked out of a hat - that would be fairer. I know people will say seeticket website is like the hat, but at least you would get into the hat in the first place than be sitting outside it like i have two years running

[Barefooted_raver]

And where would our fun be each year when someone new posts a question here about taking alcohol into the arena!

[UEF]

WHEN DO DAY TICKETS GO ON SALE?

[5co77ie]

WHEN DO DAY TICKETS GO ON SALE?