Check4Change was brilliant!

panasonic2011 · October 5, 2015

Well had 2 laptops one wired and one wireless and ipad on 3g. The laptop wired had firefox working with the check4change extension active. I selected a couple of words from the holding page and then set it to custom refresh every 1 second. I left this running from 9am onwards whilst I smashed the hell out of f5 on the other laptop without getting anywhere. Then at 9.18 I heard the jingle from the wired laptop and hey presto there was the reg page and tickets were booked. I did set it going again and the jingle went off again BUT this time it was to inform me that the tickets had sold out. I will use this again as I think it works very well

Any thoughts???

Did anybody else use it and not get anywhere??

somecoolusername · October 5, 2015

I decided not to use it for the first time in maybe three years this time, having failed to get tickets in the last two years. I don't know if it helps really. I used it in 2012 (for the 2013 festival) and ended up getting tickets with the non-check4change browser. I find all the flashing and noise adds to an already stressful process. This time I went old school - manually refreshing on one browser - and got tickets. But I really do believe it's all chance. I just find multiple add ons and confusions throw me off my game.

**GlastoEls** · October 5, 2015

I used it, set to refresh every one second, and the chime I got was the sold out banner.

I don't think it's an answer, but to OP's point, it's useful so you can concentrate on another device.

Luckily I got through on my iPhone in the meantime!

**incident** · October 5, 2015

I had check4change running on firefox in the background, while I manually hammered Pale Moon (which is my usual browser).

Pale Moon won. C4C seems like a useful tool to have (and I'll use it again next year) but it wasn't the difference maker for me.

morph100 · October 5, 2015

What key word did you use? I used a similar extension but the manual method worked in the end

Pbird81 · October 5, 2015

It got me through just after someone had already got us tickets, but not long before it all sold out, so no idea if I'd have been able to get tickets.

It did hang for a long time, time out a few times - but it probably boosts your chances,

Now if you opened 50 tabs and set them to all check4change every second.....

**incident** · October 5, 2015

Now if you opened 50 tabs and set them to all check4change every second.....

Not certain but I think that would probably be counter productive - sessions are shared across tabs so if I've understood the system correctly, as soon as one tab succeeded it'd stop refreshing - but as the other tabs refreshed there'd be a serious risk they'd knock you out.

Edited October 5, 2015 by incident

tweed1981 · October 5, 2015

Used it last year but didn't bother this year. I personally don't think it's very useful as IMO for maximum success once you get the holding screen on one device you have to refresh as soon as it reloads, which is generally a variable amount of time. Sometimes it's instant sometimes it's a little bit longer, having an arbitrary time won't work nearly as well.