2017 Ticket Sale

[JoeyT]

3 minutes ago, st dan said:

Just had to remove the weeks holiday I had 'reserved' on the works holiday chart, in the case I was successful yesterday. 

Devastating. Somebody please hold me. 

Ah dude sorry to hear that. I've just booked mine having held off on the off chance I wasn't successful.

I trust you'll be trying in the re-sales?

[moheetoes]

2 minutes ago, st dan said:

Just had to remove the weeks holiday I had 'reserved' on the works holiday chart, in the case I was successful yesterday. 

Devastating. Somebody please hold me. 

Aw bless ya, sending a hug 'cos I need one too - are you not trying in resale. I still can't believe I don't have a ticket and never got through once (unusually) first time in years (I've had a good run), however my 'grief' cycle has moved from shock and is still in disbelief haven't quite got to acceptance yet (resales to come) my teeth are still gritted this morning and didn't sleep well wondering if I could've done something different, especially after reading someone bought 2 tickets on separate registrations for themselves.

 

 

[FloorFiller]

1 minute ago, moheetoes said:

Aw bless ya, sending a hug 'cos I need one too - are you not trying in resale. I still can't believe I don't have a ticket and never got through once (unusually) first time in years (I've had a good run), however my 'grief' cycle has moved from shock and is still in disbelief haven't quite got to acceptance yet (resales to come) my teeth are still gritted this morning and didn't sleep well wondering if I could've done something different, especially after reading someone bought 2 tickets on separate registrations for themselves.

 

 

aye it's disheartening seeing others managed to get through two, three, even four times, or bought tickets twice over 'just in case', and getting absolutely zilch yourself. i'm confident for the resale though (especially with this lovely community on hand) so am not gonna throw in the towel yet. gonna be a tough six months, but i'll be damned if i'm not going to Glastonbury by the end of it!

[Smash1984]

Might have missed a post on this but was there a specific technical reason the sale was slower this year? Server crash etc etc

[big__phil]

3 minutes ago, Smash1984 said:

Might have missed a post on this but was there a specific technical reason the sale was slower this year? Server crash etc etc

I was wondering this. Just less demand this year perhaps? I managed to get through 3 times to get three different sets of tickets all before 9.20, so was a little surprised to hear about people having so many troubles.

I wonder if refreshinator might have caused a few problems. Did anyone use that and have success?

[Untz]

11 hours ago, Dave_c said:

I'm still in denial that I didn't get tickets 

I'm still in denial that I didn't get tickets for the festival just gone.

I just pretend the whole thing didn't happen/was cancelled and all those photos are staged.

[Smash1984]

1 minute ago, big__phil said:

I was wondering this. Just less demand this year perhaps? I managed to get through 3 times to get three different sets of tickets all before 9.20, so was a little surprised to hear about people having so many troubles.

I wonder if refreshinator might have caused a few problems. Did anyone use that and have success?

Yeah I saw a few posts suggesting that app may have been the cause. Me and the wife managed to get in from two different desktops at work but up until that point the holding page wasn't even loading and the whole thing just seemed a bit slower. It was encouraging in a way compared with how fast they sold out last year.

[st dan]

12 minutes ago, JoeyT said:

Ah dude sorry to hear that. I've just booked mine having held off on the off chance I wasn't successful.

I trust you'll be trying in the re-sales?

 

5 minutes ago, moheetoes said:

Aw bless ya, sending a hug 'cos I need one too - are you not trying in resale. I still can't believe I don't have a ticket and never got through once (unusually) first time in years (I've had a good run), however my 'grief' cycle has moved from shock and is still in disbelief haven't quite got to acceptance yet (resales to come) my teeth are still gritted this morning and didn't sleep well wondering if I could've done something different, especially after reading someone bought 2 tickets on separate registrations for themselves.

 

 

Thanks guys .. I will be trying in the resale but I won't be expecting to be successful. The old 'hope for the best but expect the worst' approach. 

I'm not quite sure which of the 5 stages of acceptance I'm at right now!

[briddj]

3 minutes ago, big__phil said:

I was wondering this. Just less demand this year perhaps? I managed to get through 3 times to get three different sets of tickets all before 9.20, so was a little surprised to hear about people having so many troubles.

I wonder if refreshinator might have caused a few problems. Did anyone use that and have success?

Refreshinator is more likely. Less demand would actually make it sell out quicker due to reduced load on the servers.

[moheetoes]

2 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

aye it's disheartening seeing others managed to get through two, three, even four times, or bought tickets twice over 'just in case', and getting absolutely zilch yourself. i'm confident for the resale though (especially with this lovely community on hand) so am not gonna throw in the towel yet. gonna be a tough six months, but i'll be damned if i'm not going to Glastonbury by the end of it!

I'm with ya for resales.

I have had success in both resales and secret resales for the past 3 years or so, helping others when my ticket was secured in Oct but I can never celebrate having a ticket properly until the wider group are across the finish line - so even if I had got my ticket yesterday, I would've had mixed emotions as usual. 

I too am confident we WILL be at Glastonbury next year and may take up any offers of help from the lovely efesters here, after failing miserably yesterday...

[russycarps]

I thought that refreshinator thing was tested in the coach sale and seen not to work? I've no idea about it though.

Sad to see there was a computer hack that allowed people to get tickets though. That's a real kick in the teeth if you didnt get one through fair means, I'm sure. But I suppose if I knew how to do it, I'd do it.

 

[big__phil]

3 minutes ago, russycarps said:

Sad to see there was a computer hack that allowed people to get tickets though. That's a real kick in the teeth if you didnt get one through fair means, I'm sure. But I suppose if I knew how to do it, I'd do it.

 

Glastonbury will be full of IT specialists this year.

[The Clearest Blue]

Congratulations to everyone who got tickets! That was one tough hour! Took a full 45 minutes to secure everyone in my friends network (25ish people) tickets but everyone got them in the end, I will of course be around for the resale and willing to help people on here. Now I can sit back and fully enjoy the headliner rumour game.

[FuzzyDunlop]

4 minutes ago, russycarps said:

I thought that refreshinator thing was tested in the coach sale and seen not to work? I've no idea about it though.

Sad to see there was a computer hack that allowed people to get tickets though. That's a real kick in the teeth if you didnt get one through fair means, I'm sure. But I suppose if I knew how to do it, I'd do it.

 

Did you get fixed up? Can't have you missing Radiohead's return.

[rebus]

Still not heard reports back from anyone who used the refreshinator thingy in the main sale.  Be interesting to see if they did manage to block it.  Perhaps everyone who used refreshinator has been taken out by the Seetickets Protection Force (SPF (not to be confused with Sun Protection Factor)). I've heard they can be brutal.

[CaledonianGonzo]

People in our group using Chrome page refreshing plugins got nowhere, whereas people doing a manual refresh got through.

[not worthy]

Looks a lovely day on the farm today!!!!

[briddj]

7 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

People in our group using Chrome page refreshing plugins got nowhere, whereas people doing a manual refresh got through.

I got our tickets on Chrome Refresh plugin.

 

 

[big__phil]

1 minute ago, briddj said:

I got our tickets on Chrome Refresh plugin.

 

 

One of my three successes was through this as well. The others were manual refresh in Firefox.

[mjsell]

Im still not over the events of yesterday morning...

 

And I can't see that changing for some time to come.

Edited October 10, 2016 by mjsell

[ceetee]

32 minutes ago, big__phil said:

Glastonbury will be full of IT specialists this year.

I don't think being able to edit a text file classes as being an IT specialist any more, does it?

 

Working it out and understanding it, yes, but not just making the configuration change.

[mjsell]

Just now, ceetee said:

I don't think being able to edit a text file classes as being an IT specialist any more, does it?

 

Working it out and understanding it, yes, but not just making the configuration change.

Configuration change? You've lost me.

[Padgey]

15 minutes ago, not worthy said:

Looks a lovely day on the farm today!!!!

I'm now waiting for that fence to start appearing from the left!

[smudger]

1 hour ago, st dan said:

Just had to remove the weeks holiday I had 'reserved' on the works holiday chart, in the case I was successful yesterday. 

Devastating. Somebody please hold me. 

No, don't do that!! NEVER give up hope, well maybe not till middle of May after the last final, no really there are no more, secret resale. Plus you really want to be getting ready for work on that wednesday morning? Or would you rather be on that last minute holiday you planned, just in case, to somewhere away from all TV's, papers etc? You could be waking up in some beautiful valley, in your tent, overlooking some cliffs, the sea, somewhere in Scotland maybe, or Wales, the valleys, or the west country (no don't go there it'll be too painful and besides there's a mothering great big festival there that time of year, no don't ask about it, it'll hurt too much), the point is IF you fail to get tickets, and there are still at least 3 further chances, the one place you never want to be is sitting where you are now on that Wednesday.

I feel your pain though.

[incident]

1 hour ago, russycarps said:

I thought that refreshinator thing was tested in the coach sale and seen not to work? I've no idea about it though.

Sad to see there was a computer hack that allowed people to get tickets though. That's a real kick in the teeth if you didnt get one through fair means, I'm sure. But I suppose if I knew how to do it, I'd do it.

From what I've read, I don't think it did work.

But that won't have stopped people trying it, and it seems likely that they'll have had a cumulative negative effect on the system.