Was that fair?

[Mardy]

I said it was fair. There's your clue :-)

Bring it on!!

 

 

Excellent news. Good stuff.

[Keithy]

It's a mixture of luck and persistence. Over the years I've got tickets on wifi, fibre, ipads, PC's and hanging out of a friends window with 1 bar of signal on a mobile, Luck to get an open slot on the booking page, persistence to keep refreshing to maximise your chances of hitting an open slot.

[scaryclaireyfairy]

I have whatever the bog-standard speed is from Virgin and a clapped-out frankenstein PC with RAM issues.  I got in for both the coach sale and today so it has to be luck. 

[musky]

I logged in through work server and check speed on that site and it was over 300mbs. I know it's luck but the page refreshed very quickly so I could try loads of times and never lost the holding page.

Yeah, it's the latency you really want to be looking at. 300 mbps is great bandwidth but the seetickets booking page is just 25kb!

 

But like I said, when it's the time you arrive that matters none of it makes any difference. It's like driving at 100 mph to get somewhere and when you arrive you find out it doesn't open for half an hour.

[jcd_lowe]

2nd year running that a friend of a friend (last year someone I'd only met once but now know much better; this time a complete stranger to me!) has got mine!  I was hitting F5 hundreds of times at work at only got to the "we're busy.." page.

[bamber]

Is Life Fair?

 

Congratulations and Commiserations Everyone!

 

#intothesea

 

[rumpola]

3x laptops

1x tablet

2x phone

It was the phone that managed to get through on 4g and helped me bag five tickets. Should've been six but we had the wrong registration for one of our gang.

Sheer chance if you get through or not.

[Curlygirl]

Got all of ours except for one group. Had all there details in and pressed confirm only too find out one on the group had already got ticket.

So had too go back and remove him, then confirm again and sold out.

Terrible for them :/

Exactly the same for me!! Only it said 2 of them had tickets. It's such a shame for those concerned but they know they have loads of us trying in the resale!!

[bamber]

[dizzymoo]

It probably is as fair as it could be given disparity between supply and demand, but I wonder if anyone has a view about a longer sale giving people like me with dodgy wifi more chance?  We had to reconnect via mobile after ours crashed and eventually got thru at 9.25, which would have been too late to complete the sale last year.

 

Also it does seem that people who get through once are able to get back to the buying page more easily than those still queuing,  and while it's great they can help others, a bit gutting for people who never got near enough to buy any tickets.

[smudger]

Exactly the same for me!! Only it said 2 of them had tickets. It's such a shame for those concerned but they know they have loads of us trying in the resale!!

Thats why we split ourselves into groups of six. The only trouble is that in grouping them, a couple of my mates were in a group that failed. So although I got mine i can celebrate until the resales!

[LondonTom]

The more years you enter the rodeo and pay attention to everyone's tips and tricks, the more you realize it is just down to luck! (As well making sure you are persistent with trying for those 30 tense minutes!)

[SmellyWellies]

I don't know about that, have you seen some of the drug casualties stumbling back to their tents at 7am?

I think its only Glastonbury if your eating your own face off!

[morph100]

The wife got through on the oldest crap laptop on home wifi whilst I didn't using all manner of devices and cloud based systems giving me 6 IPs with various browsers. She did shout at her laptop more and hit the F5 key particularly hard so that probably helped!

[DeanoL]

A fair system means we all only get to go every two or three years. No one here wants a fair system.

[Girlwiththemostcake]

I got in on my phone with 4G this year, had to put all the numbers in manually. Missed a digit out of one but it still allowed me to redo it then took me through to the final page. TENSE! Didn't even get as far as the holding page on my laptop.

 

I've bought tickets while on a train using their crap wifi before so I really do believe it's all down to luck.

 

Very happy to get them after losing out completely last year.

[Untz]

A fair system means we all only get to go every two or three years. No one here wants a fair system.

 

Very true.

 

I do think the extra resales balance the favour towards people really keen to go though.

[arcade fireman]

I wonder how many people who failed today tried in the coach sale? They did leave from dozens of UK destinations which a lot of people would be able to reach quite easily...

[mumzilla]

We are near Bkackpool and got tickets using phone connection. Laptop didn't even connect. Refreshed from before 9 and got through at about 9.15. Completed the order and then card was declined as I had put wrong expiry date. So we did get ours in the end- but last year tried every sale and resale and ended up not going for the first time in many years- which was gutting. Today the phones were the best for us.

[neville]

Second year. Last year I tried the coach sale, and after five minutes I had the tickets. This year I failed the coach sale, so I tried again this morning and I thought I was failing again. After twenty minutes of refreshing five/six tabs, I got to the ticket form. 

[incident]

I wonder how many people who failed today tried in the coach sale? They did leave from dozens of UK destinations which a lot of people would be able to reach quite easily...

It's all very well being able to reach a departure point easily at say 11am - but given that most of the seetickets coaches don't give you a choice, or any knowledge of departure times, then it might not be so easy if you get allocated a 4am departure (as some people have in the past). Or maybe you can't get off work until noon and the departure is 10am.

If they ever come round to specifying times in advance, then I'll certainly be happy to look at the coach sale as a serious option (and indeed, at that point I'd support vastly increasing the number of coach-only tickets). Until then, it's of no interest to me.

[Bisque]

I think it's fair, if you have 28,000 people helping you get a ticket

[midnight]

I wonder how many people who failed today tried in the coach sale? They did leave from dozens of UK destinations which a lot of people would be able to reach quite easily...

 

Don't know how many, but I'm one of them. Also last year (tried but failed), and the year before (ditto).

 

Plus some other years, but can't remember which ones. The only year we managed to get coach tickets was 2007.

 

Ps: Edited to say - this is the sort of comment I find really frustrating "why didn't you try", "You just have to try harder".  Urgh.

Edited October 4, 2015 by midnight

[DeanoL]

I wonder how many people who failed today tried in the coach sale? They did leave from dozens of UK destinations which a lot of people would be able to reach quite easily...

 

I didn't this year. Even living in Coventry, I did Birmingham coaches last year, which should have been simple enough. But a 5.45am departure meant having to organize a lift off my parents (I'm 31) to be able to get there, as there's no public transport at that hour, and a taxi would have cost a fortune.

 

The coach-packages are a great idea, but there's not much common sense behind them it seems.

 

[somecoolusername]

I tried for London coach tickets and didn't get anywhere near. And it would have been ideal because I'm 5 minutes from the o2.