2017 Ticket Sale

[Untz]

8 hours ago, morph100 said:

Is it true that pressing F10 gives you twice as much chance as pressing F5? Asking for a friend....

Yes, yes it does. Spread the word.

[Avalon_Fields]

I thought F1 was the fastest?

[mungo57]

I can't copy and paste from a document as quick as I can type freehand, I usually keep the details on a piece of paper and frantically type when I get onto the sales page. I personally find that quicker, I can type quite fast without looking at the screen or keyboard even and don't tend to make that many mistakes when I do it so I just go down that route.

I find clicking off the doc to the page and back again 4 times takes longer than just typing it - have only missed out once since 2009 when we started going so I guess I must be lucky.

I like the idea of being able to store data for a card on the server though but at the same time this would probably cause server overload x 1000 or something, my main gripe is that they don't 'hold' tickets for you once you have entered reg numbers to give you time to put in card details and whatnot. The year after the Stones played, 10 minutes before the tickets sold out, I got onto the card details page and clicked through, the connection died and by the time I saw the booking page again, the tickets were gone.

[sheffieldlady]

Can't you store the information if you're signed up to Seetickets? Have I made that up?

The whole process makes me nervous, I want coach tickets so hopefully, I can be done and dusted by the time Sunday comes around! Have been for the last two / three years and it's been nice. Usually I'm up and trying for tickets for friends on Sunday but I feel more relaxed about the whole affair because of the practice run!

[Alvarhanso]

I think this is for 'normal' see tickets sales.

Glastonbury seems to exist in its own special bubble, like the absence of a timer that reserves tickets for a specified period of time.

That's based on my experience last year.

I'm hoping for coach tickets from Sheffield too - good luck . It always seems a no brainer to try for coach tickets, four bites of the cherry and the coach cost isn't much more than a car park ticket before you even factor in car fuel costs and the inevitable trek from the car parks to camping grounds.

Edited September 16, 2016 by Alvarhanso

[jamesrfisher]

You might want to have this link ready to go

http://glastonbury.seetickets.com/Tour/Glastonbury-2017

Takes you to this currently!

http://glastonbury.seetickets.com/event/glastonbury-2017-ticket-coach-travel-deposits/worthy-farm/1100011

[Fingerbobs]

21 minutes ago, jamesrfisher said:

You might want to have this link ready to go

http://glastonbury.seetickets.com/Tour/Glastonbury-2017

Takes you to this currently!

http://glastonbury.seetickets.com/event/glastonbury-2017-ticket-coach-travel-deposits/worthy-farm/1100011

Excellent stuff. A big hello to the 2017 booking pages. Cheers for the links.

[Smash1984]

11 hours ago, thewayiam said:

Well newly re-registered so probably will try at least....then if it's not the lineup I'd like, back into the mix it goes. Losing £15 vs spending £480

They've up'd it to £20 this year on admin fees

[thewayiam]

11 minutes ago, Smash1984 said:

They've up'd it to £20 this year on admin fees

Indeed they have, for the option of Daft Punk possibly though £20 still isn't  £450+. 

The issue is I don't know anyone that would pay the money to see a later on Daft Punk show, the chances of them playing more dancey events aside to Glastonbury is quite likely and considering none of my friends are into that to bother going to them now, I can't see that changing. One mate would attend if it was SHM reunion.

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

52 minutes ago, jamesrfisher said:

You might want to have this link ready to go

http://glastonbury.seetickets.com/Tour/Glastonbury-2017

Takes you to this currently!

http://glastonbury.seetickets.com/event/glastonbury-2017-ticket-coach-travel-deposits/worthy-farm/1100011

That's weird, it lets you put your reg number and postcode in but then when you click submit it says you need a deposit.

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

2 hours ago, mungo57 said:

I can't copy and paste from a document as quick as I can type freehand, I usually keep the details on a piece of paper and frantically type when I get onto the sales page. I personally find that quicker, I can type quite fast without looking at the screen or keyboard even and don't tend to make that many mistakes when I do it so I just go down that route.

I find clicking off the doc to the page and back again 4 times takes longer than just typing it - have only missed out once since 2009 when we started going so I guess I must be lucky.

I like the idea of being able to store data for a card on the server though but at the same time this would probably cause server overload x 1000 or something, my main gripe is that they don't 'hold' tickets for you once you have entered reg numbers to give you time to put in card details and whatnot. The year after the Stones played, 10 minutes before the tickets sold out, I got onto the card details page and clicked through, the connection died and by the time I saw the booking page again, the tickets were gone.

I'm with you there, especially on a mac, it's much easier to type it in I find. There is a way of setting up a shortcut as well where the first three (or however may you choose) digits then pre populate the whole number, did it last year for our reg numbers and post codes and it worked a treat, best of both worlds. Only thing is it's mildly irritating for the rest of the year when you are trying to enter a slightly different post code or number that starts the same as your reg number.

[mungo57]

16 minutes ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

I'm with you there, especially on a mac, it's much easier to type it in I find. There is a way of setting up a shortcut as well where the first three (or however may you choose) digits then pre populate the whole number, did it last year for our reg numbers and post codes and it worked a treat, best of both worlds. Only thing is it's mildly irritating for the rest of the year when you are trying to enter a slightly different post code or number that starts the same as your reg number.

google chrome have a facility where it remembers your card details and address, but I can't make it remember all the reg numbers like I can the card details.

I will stick with the tried and tested type frantic option. Can't go wrong except for typos. I remember one year we missed out in the main sale and it was because an error kept coming up, I checked, double checked, triple checked and realised there were no typos then it sold out. Turns out my other half had written her fucking reg. number down wrong! Thats the only worry I have, hence every year since I check everyones reg. myself to make sure the correct numbers. I have kept my old driving license just for Glasto and that had our old postcode on, where her brother and dad live still, so I can check all reg's for that postcode and See will email me them, but I will always sit there and type it out over copy and pasting. Too much time wasted.

the shortcut you mention is great on my iphone but I can't figure out for the life of me how to do same thing on Chrome on windows. That would be a helpful gamechanger.

Edited September 16, 2016 by mungo57

[crocodiles]

55 minutes ago, Mandroman said:

Excellent stuff. A big hello to the 2017 booking pages. Cheers for the links.

Remind me as I'm doubting myself now once u put in your details if you get through to payment in then asks you to add other party members doesn't it

[Quark]

1 hour ago, jamesrfisher said:

You might want to have this link ready to go

http://glastonbury.seetickets.com/Tour/Glastonbury-2017

Takes you to this currently!

http://glastonbury.seetickets.com/event/glastonbury-2017-ticket-coach-travel-deposits/worthy-farm/1100011

Cap doffed.  I'll be adding that to my bookmarks

[FestiZebra]

1 hour ago, jamesrfisher said:

You might want to have this link ready to go

http://glastonbury.seetickets.com/Tour/Glastonbury-2017

Takes you to this currently!

http://glastonbury.seetickets.com/event/glastonbury-2017-ticket-coach-travel-deposits/worthy-farm/1100011

Have you always been able to just buy a coach ticket? strange!

[Avalon_Fields]

Another option is Dashlane, which with one click will enter all your debit card details, name, post code, etc

[parsonjack]

11 minutes ago, FestiZebra said:

Have you always been able to just buy a coach ticket? strange!

Not that I remember......could be there are new plans in response to this year's traffic carnage?

[Smash1984]

17 minutes ago, FestiZebra said:

Have you always been able to just buy a coach ticket? strange!

You may have misinterpreted what the link says. It's ticket and coach package. I doubt they'd sell coach tix on there own. National express do that if you're after them

[Charm]

36 minutes ago, FestiZebra said:

Have you always been able to just buy a coach ticket? strange!

Someone else posted these links and I remember Neil said it's just for paying deposits and might not be that helpful. 
Charm x

[jamesrfisher]

20 minutes ago, Smash1984 said:

You may have misinterpreted what the link says. It's ticket and coach package. I doubt they'd sell coach tix on there own. National express do that if you're after them

No, this is what the link says

 

Don't forget that you will need the registration numbers and postcodes of all of the people you wish to book tickets for.

GLASTONBURY 2017 TICKET & COACH TRAVEL - DEPOSITS
Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset
Thursday 22nd June 2017 - Various Departures

GLASTONBURY 2017 COACH TRAVEL ONLY
Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset
Thursday, 22 Jun 2017
at 12:00 AM

[Morgs74]

Have never tried coach tickets.  We always get the car because we like to get there about midnight Tuesday night to get a good spot on Big Ground.

Couple of questions if we were to try for coaches...

1.  Travelling from London, would we have any control over what time our coach is?

2.  If we can select coach times, are we more likely to miss out if we go for the earliest coach slots, and therefore miss out on tickets altogether in coach sale? (ie by the time you go back in to try a second time all the tickets are gone) 

[Badlands]

I used copy and paste last year on my phone with the data stored on the android version of excel. My fingers were shaking so much that I was hopeless typing the info in directly. If you;re on a pc/laptop, then Alt + Tab is your friend, much quicked than typing surely.

[Alvarhanso]

17 minutes ago, Badlands said:

I used copy and paste last year on my phone with the data stored on the android version of excel. My fingers were shaking so much that I was hopeless typing the info in directly. If you;re on a pc/laptop, then Alt + Tab is your friend, much quicked than typing surely.

I personally split the screen so the website is on one half and notepad on the other, saves having to alt + tab - every second counts!

[Cheesey]

My GF and I tackle T-day together. We print out all the details (reg numbers, postcodes and debit card details) in large type on a piece of A4, then if when one of us gets the form up the other one reads off the info to be typed in.

This has worked pretty well for us the last few years.

Edited September 16, 2016 by Cheesey

[Madyaker]

Just realised for us EU people tickets are pretty much the same price as last year thanks to Brexit's effect on exchange rates!