seamonkey Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 So are we all ready ? Nerves are starting to set in.... any tips would be good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UEF Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 1) buy a ticket 2) don't not buy a ticket Only real tip I can offer is have all your reg numbers and postcodes in a spreadsheet, and CHECK THEM (using the online editing facility)... if it lets you log in to see details then they work, if it doesn't then the reg number, postcode or both is wrong. People are terrible at conveying this information accurately, I find, and Glasto's sale process doesn't accept "close enough". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickharley Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 I'm trying for some friends I really want to go, so definitely feeling some nerves myself! The general advice I believe is to have as many devices spread over as many internet connections as possible, with (debatably) as many tabs open , refreshing as often as possible haha. I've got tickets before from being signed in on to these forums during the sale and picking up on any other good advice people may have like the tricks that sometimes luckily appear (the see tickets server issue for the 2013 tickets comes to mind). If you don't manage to get tickets next week, all is not lost, there will be smaller resales, announced quite suddenly on random week days. Keep checking this forum and follow certain twitter pages (like the Efests one) for updates. I know some people recommend setting up some sort of twitter update, although I have no idea how to do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt1991 Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 Refresh, refresh, refresh! Keep checking here and Twitter for backdoors etc and good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilduck Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 We've got two groups of 4 to try for, good point about checking the regs beforehand! I hope we get lucky, it would be a shame if some of our group had to miss out this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffie Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 (edited) We've got two groups of 4 to try for, good point about checking the regs beforehand! I hope we get lucky, it would be a shame if some of our group had to miss out this year. Edited April 15, 2014 by jeffie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stardustjunkie Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 If you're desperate enough to go, I highly recommend trying the coach resale, mainly because I found it so easy to get through in the coach main sale (I bought someone else a ticket, not my own). More people want to drive and are likely to try the Sunday resale. If you fail in the coach one, you've still got the Sunday one to go, but if you fail in the Sunday one without trying in the Thursday sale, you'll be kicking yourself! Just be prepared, we had all our reg details out for 2013's resale, we had two bank cards with enough money on to buy 3 tickets (it meant moving money around between us but it was just another precaution in case on card got declined) and we got other people helping us. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UEF Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 I think the "space in the postcode" thing was a bug in one of the earlier years and isn't an issue now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPink Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 Ready and nervous. We're going to be trying both days. Hopefully get a decent coach if we get through there. Although, we'd be coming from victoria, which i suspect will be one of the more popular departure locations. less likely to be tickets thrown back into the pot from there i'd have thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seamonkey Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 Thank you everyone. Really helpful information! Good luck to everyone who is trying too. As you said, really good idea to swap info on here on resale day! Id be happy to help people too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seamonkey Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 (edited) Ready and nervous. We're going to be trying both days. Hopefully get a decent coach if we get through there. Although, we'd be coming from victoria, which i suspect will be one of the more popular departure locations. less likely to be tickets thrown back into the pot from there i'd have thought. Edited April 15, 2014 by seamonkey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPink Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 I have looked at the departure times for London as I am hoping to get tickets from here too and there are about 12 departure times compared to somewhere like reading there are only 2. So im thinking more allocation for London? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theDandy Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 this is my 5th year trying twice a year, if I don't get one this year I really can't be held responsible for my actions, I think that Michael/Emily Eavis must hate me for something I'm not aware of Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokesy10 Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 So are we all ready ? Nerves are starting to set in.... any tips would be good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cham08 Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 Make sure that you have enough cash in your bank account. You have to pay for the whole ticket in the resale so if you are trying for 4 people you will need circa £800 of available funds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartbert two hats Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 Question for fellow techies here - if you enter your details and get a timeout/503 error do you think it's better to refresh or hit back and click the submit button again? During the original sale, I successfully opted for the reload option, after a quick check in Google dev tools confirmed that there hadn't been some sort of redirect that would prevent my data from being rePOSTed. The sale went through and I was very happy. I must admit I'm not 100% on the possible behaviours of the back button, but as it's not always instant, I've assumed that some server contact was involved, even if the page is ultimately served from the cache. So my real question is this - is it safe to advise people to hit refresh rather than back + resubmit, or could this be potentially ticket losing is some circumstances? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoo Music Girl Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 Shitting myself. I have managed to get a ticket in the resale before, if that helps raise optimism levels. And we actually need coaches so will be trying next Thursday for sure. Good luck everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5co77ie Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 It's just sunk in that it's only 4 max Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartbert two hats Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 Good luck, I know of loads of people who failed to get tickets previously and have now given up + made other plans. You can do it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seamonkey Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 Question for fellow techies here - if you enter your details and get a timeout/503 error do you think it's better to refresh or hit back and click the submit button again? During the original sale, I successfully opted for the reload option, after a quick check in Google dev tools confirmed that there hadn't been some sort of redirect that would prevent my data from being rePOSTed. The sale went through and I was very happy. I must admit I'm not 100% on the possible behaviours of the back button, but as it's not always instant, I've assumed that some server contact was involved, even if the page is ultimately served from the cache. So my real question is this - is it safe to advise people to hit refresh rather than back + resubmit, or could this be potentially ticket losing is some circumstances? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UEF Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 Make sure that you have enough cash in your bank account. You have to pay for the whole ticket in the resale so if you are trying for 4 people you will need circa £800 of available funds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seamonkey Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 this is my 5th year trying twice a year, if I don't get one this year I really can't be held responsible for my actions, I think that Michael/Emily Eavis must hate me for something I'm not aware of Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UEF Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 I'm thinking of getting the train up to Liverpool and sitting in Starbucks on the wifi to maximise my chances Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBoz Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 Going to be a stressful morning. I got my 2013 tickets in the main sale through DNS change but failed last october. FIngers crossed eh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seamonkey Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 I'm thinking of getting the train up to Liverpool and sitting in Starbucks on the wifi to maximise my chances Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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