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So why the change?


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2014 - on sale October, sold out 1 hour and 27 minutes.
2013 - on sale October, sold out 1 hour and 40 minutes.
2012 - Fallow year.
2011 - on sale October, sold out 4 hours (1.15pm).
2010 - on sale October, sold out 12 hours.
2009 - on sale October, sold out February.
2008 - on sale April, sold out a day before the Festival started.
2007 - First year of registration system (implemented to cut out touting) on sale April, sold out 2 hours.
2006 - Fallow year.
2005 - on sale April, sold out 1 hour and 45 minutes (touts and scalpers blamed with thousands then put up for sale on eBay).
2004 - on sale April, sold out 24 hours.
2003 - on sale April, sold out 26 hours.
2002 - on sale April, sold out after 25 days, which was the first time it sold out 2 months in advance, and the first year of the super fence.

Glasto has always been popular I know but why when other festivals are struggling to get rid of tickets (Reading,V,etc) why are glasto tickets selling out quicker than ever??

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Because now you can post "OMFG I GOT GLASTO TICKETS IM SO HAPPYYYYYEEE" on twitter.

It's become embedded in British culture thanks to the blanket bbc coverage.

It is also the biggest and the best festival and the one that appeals to the widest range of people these days.

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I'm sure there are many factors, primarily how bloody good it looks on the TV, that it has become a bit of a place to be seen for some people, a bucket list visit for others and that for most people, once you've been, you want to keep going back. Year after year after year.

A woman I work with is saying she's going this year. She's 50 and never considered going to any festival in her life but having seen Dolly, wants to go.

I may be wrong but I think that with the other major festivals, as great a time as you may have, the actual location doesn't have that much of an impact. As a result people are more influenced by the line up and the same line ups seem to be have been going round in circles for years now. Generalising I know, but people that go to Reading will have an almost identical time at T in the Park or V.

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It is also the biggest and the best festival and the one that appeals to the widest range of people these days.

This really sums it up a lot. Having been to other festivals, nothing can compare to Glastonbury's diversity and good vibes

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Yeah social media i guess could be a factor.

The BBC try to hype up other festivals like Tin the Park and Reading & Leeds but they just don't seem to have the same hype and hysteria around getting tickets

I'd like to put my finger on exactly what it is that makes Glasto the best!

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The introduction of the deposit scheme in 2009.

Although it's generally a good scheme it means that people can put £50 down now and then wait to see what lineup rumours there are closer to the balance having to be paid knowing that the only lose a tenner (it's more now I think) if they don't fancy it. If all tickets sold in October were full cost you'd see a lot slower uptake.

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I'm sure there are many factors, primarily how bloody good it looks on the TV, that it has become a bit of a place to be seen for some people, a bucket list visit for others and that for most people, once you've been, you want to keep going back. Year after year after year.

Yeah that's just how much it scoops people up. Most people who go end up wanting to go next year, and a lot of people who have a good R+L/T/IOW/V want to go to Glastonbury the next year.

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The introduction of the deposit scheme in 2009.

Although it's generally a good scheme it means that people can put £50 down now and then wait to see what lineup rumours there are closer to the balance having to be paid knowing that the only lose a tenner (it's more now I think) if they don't fancy it. If all tickets sold in October were full cost you'd see a lot slower uptake.

Download have a deposit scheme too, you pay x amount and then pay a little bit each month so it is similar, amd Download never sells out

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I find that a lot of people who watch the coverage give it "I'm definitely going next year", then next year comes around, the hype has died down and they haven't even registered. I do believe those who experience it for the first time definitely want to return so the numbers keep increasing.

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coz I started going and I've got a big gob

You would be surprised how much this could ring through. The first year we went there was only 4 of us. The second year. There was 15! 10 years later? If we all get tickets? And include the kids? It would be a small group of only about 39!

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The name itself carries more weight than any festival for all of those wanting to go to a festival for the first time. Going to "Glasto" has become a bucket list thing for many and seems to be increasingly so. But what this means, is that it continues the wide range of ages going, which is great.

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