2017 Ticket Sale

[wwinstanley]

1 hour ago, mungo57 said:

Thats what I took it to be.

Someone clearly hoping a load of people pay £1.50 for something they can already have for nothing on their laptop web browser

Does the chrome refresh app stop refreshing when it reaches the desired page?

[hfuhruhurr]

16 hours ago, Tartan_Glasto said:

Hi all,

The group I'd be going with are considering taking a motor home next year (if we get tickets). I'm not convinced on the idea myself, I quite like the camping. How quick do the campervan field tickets sell out? Never looked into them before.

Cheers,

Pretty quickly - but as long as you're buying within the morning they're released you should get them.

Campervan fields = longish walk in and back; quiet; plentiful clean loos; early arrival (when it's not 'kin raining!)

 

[Tartan_Glasto]

1 hour ago, hfuhruhurr said:

Pretty quickly - but as long as you're buying within the morning they're released you should get them.

Campervan fields = longish walk in and back; quiet; plentiful clean loos; early arrival (when it's not 'kin raining!)

 

Ah cheers bud!

Apart from the long walks there and back...it does sound quite nice the way you put it!

[mungo57]

2 hours ago, wwinstanley said:

Does the chrome refresh app stop refreshing when it reaches the desired page?

I don't know to be fair, not used it.

I go old school and F5 manually.

[fernandomassuy]

A week to go for coach sales... Can't stop thinking about it, next week is gonna take forever to pass. 

Edited September 29, 2016 by fernandomassuy
wrong quoting

[parsonjack]

11 hours ago, wwinstanley said:

http://www.somersetlive.co.uk/glastonbury-2017-ios-apple-ticket-page-app-could-invalidate-ticket-sales-festival-goers-warned/story-29759560-detail/story.html

What do people think about this? I think it would be difficult for seetickets to determine if this app was used as it is basically just a browser which refreshes (Much like using a regular browser and manual refreshing, just quicker)

Only thing I can see them doing to prevent it would be to have a copy of the text from the holding page on the booking page, that way there are no words for it to search for as "missing" on the booking page.

Can't immediately think of how it could be detected and therefore blocked....other than the regular request rate being picked up and marked as a bot....a DOS attack would usually not be detected unless there were vast numbers of requests in a short time period but See could write in some code that blocks anything suspected of being a tool simply by identifying any repeated and regular request rate - whether that be 1 second or 5.

Personally I think you'd be brave to risk it.  A finger hitting F5 only when the holding page loads is far less risky.

[musky]

14 minutes ago, parsonjack said:

Can't immediately think of how it could be detected and therefore blocked....other than the regular request rate being picked up and marked as a bot....a DOS attack would usually not be detected unless there were vast numbers of requests in a short time period but See could write in some code that blocks anything suspected of being a tool simply by identifying any repeated and regular request rate - whether that be 1 second or 5.

Personally I think you'd be brave to risk it.  A finger hitting F5 only when the holding page loads is far less risky.

Apparently it spoofs Safari in the headers, so it won't be easily identified by that alone. Whether it generates any other identifiable artefacts in the header is anyone's guess however...

Edit: I like how the developers boast that the app managed to get the booking page 10 times over a 30 second period. I'd assume that the app is collecting info from users and reporting back, which does beg the question of what other data are they collecting?

Edited September 29, 2016 by musky

[TheNewUnion]

I'll be in the UK for the ticket sale (fingers crossed etc) but in the US for the camper van ticket sale if that is in October - it was last year I think, I assume that once (ticket gods permitting) you have your deposit paid, it doesn't matter where you get your Camper Ticket from? I'll have to get up at 4am too, but that would be a small price to pay I suppose.

Cheers

[mrfunk]

This "might" be useful for coach tickets, don't blame me if it doesn't work, or if you waste time trying !

 

http://glastonbury.seetickets.com/event/glastonbury-2017-coach-travel-only/worthy-farm/1100014

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

YES I know it redirects at the moment, but it didn't a week ago

Edited September 29, 2016 by mrfunk

[gizmoman]

Your second link is identical to the first, it should read

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

The page these links went to wasn't an actual booking page but that may change come Thursday.

[mrfunk]

Had the booking page two weeks ago.  I would imagine that they will now change these links.  I have also been told many times that links like these give you  no advantage,  as you need to go through the front door first,  to get a session.  Won't comment on the last bit,  as I don't know what I'm talking about. 

 

[gizmoman]

The links went to a balance payment page, not a booking page, the page loaded was one with a single reg. entry and if you entered a reg. it came back with "a deposit for this booking was not found" or something similar, the booking page has space for all the registration no.s you wish to book. Very strange. Pretty sure these showcodes will be correct though, not that that will help anyone

[mungo57]

31 minutes ago, mrfunk said:

Had the booking page two weeks ago.  I would imagine that they will now change these links.  I have also been told many times that links like these give you  no advantage,  as you need to go through the front door first,  to get a session.  Won't comment on the last bit,  as I don't know what I'm talking about. 

 

backdoor links do work I think, I seem to remember being able to bypass the first  page one year with a backdoor link straight to the registrations page. I may be wrong though.

Edited September 30, 2016 by mungo57

[mungo57]

1 minute ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

So you didn't have to pay?

I don't know why I put payment page - I meant the first holding page

[russycarps]

I need some advice.

My trusty PC of many years is coming to the end of it's life, but it still works. Though it's very slow to start up, once going everything is fine. But the end is nigh. I have had much success (and some failure) with this PC with regards to getting tickets in the past.

Now do I stick with this PC, or for the first time ever leave my house and try from the super duper PCs at work? It feels so wrong to break my routine, but what if my old one simply cant cope with the F5 hammering routine?

Please advise. 

[mungo57]

1 minute ago, russycarps said:

I need some advice.

My trusty PC of many years is coming to the end of it's life, but it still works. Though it's very slow to start up, once going everything is fine. But the end is nigh. I have had much success (and some failure) with this PC with regards to getting tickets in the past.

Now do I stick with this PC, or for the first time ever leave my house and try from the super duper PCs at work? It feels so wrong to break my routine, but what if my old one simply cant cope with the F5 hammering routine?

Please advise. 

I'm in the same boat. My laptop is fucked to the point of oblivion but still works. The up key doesn't work and it makes a horrible whirring sound.

That said, last year, it was worse than it is now (I have since flashed it and reinstalled Windows 7 and gave it a bit of TLC) and I managed to get in and booked within 7 minutes. 

This year, the girlfriend has a new laptop which she will use, I doubt I will run off to work to try, I may just let the gods decide whether my old basically dead lappy is worthy. Hopefully, they deem it so

[russycarps]

well I dunno if it's super or not. I presume all work computers are top notch no?

But as mungo says, is it worth risking upsetting the cosmic equilibrium by breaking the routine??

 

[mungo57]

Just now, Scruffylovemonster said:

If you'd been successful every single time I'd agree. 

But also if you get into work and find out the site is blocked for some reason....

was gonna say that.
You might want to try the see tickets site and the glasto tickets link the week before to make certain.

My work doesn't have a server, I just have a computer in my office connected to broadband. I could sit here watching porn all day if I wanted to. Some people aren't as lucky!

[mjsell]

Coach tickets max 6 nowadays?

Was 4 when i got them in 2015

[SophieBee]

30 minutes ago, mungo57 said:

was gonna say that.
You might want to try the see tickets site and the glasto tickets link the week before to make certain.

I've just done this! I'm planning on coming in to work - I've never got past the holding page on my laptop at home (thankfully always had another in the group who has got through), so I figure that it can't hurt to try something new. Just had a little test run with the SR sale to double check the See Tickets site isn't blocked. Worked very well - got a 'site busy' holding page with a 20 second countdown, pressed f5 a couple of times and then through to the booking page. Which I closed, because I'm not spending £70 on SR tickets.

I know that the Glastonbury sale will be a lot busier, but it felt like a good sign.

[russycarps]

1 minute ago, SophieBee said:

I've just done this! I'm planning on coming in to work - I've never got past the holding page on my laptop at home (thankfully always had another in the group who has got through), so I figure that it can't hurt to try something new. Just had a little test run with the SR sale to double check the See Tickets site isn't blocked. Worked very well - got a 'site busy' holding page with a 20 second countdown, pressed f5 a couple of times and then through to the booking page. Which I closed, because I'm not spending £70 on SR tickets.

I know that the Glastonbury sale will be a lot busier, but it felt like a good sign.

either that or you've just used up all your "getting through" good fortune............why risk it?!?!

 

[SophieBee]

Just now, russycarps said:

either that or you've just used up all your "getting through" good fortune............why risk it?!?!

 

Noooooooooooo! Back to feeling sick again...

[Avalon_Fields]

45 minutes ago, russycarps said:

well I dunno if it's super or not. I presume all work computers are top notch no?

But as mungo says, is it worth risking upsetting the cosmic equilibrium by breaking the routine??

 

I'd stick with the cosmic equilibrium (All sorts might go wrong at work, scheduled computer maintenance downtime, etc)

[Avalon_Fields]

Currently practising those F5 moves on See Tickets. Might come in handy one day...

[musky]

1 hour ago, mungo57 said:

backdoor links do work I think, I seem to remember being able to bypass the first  page one year with a backdoor link straight to the registrations page. I may be wrong though.

They've worked in the past, but using them wasn't any guarantee that you'd get straight through - that was just down to luck. 

Last year however a lot of people reported that they reached the reg page but on proceeding found themselves back on the holding page. So instead of a marginal advantage they found themselves back to square one with the possibility that they'd just used up their luck in finding an open slot.

So it's seemingly another little loophole in the booking process that's been closed by seetickets.