Re-sale refresh question

smudger · April 8, 2019

So having bummed out in Oct Im wondering whether my over active refreshing sent me to the fabled 'dead end' page. Whats the general view on whether SEE were in fact redirecting any one who hit refresh more than 30 times in a minute? I know was getting the same holding page instantly irrespective of how quick I hit it. Which considering how you tend to get the white screen is a little suspect.

If that's the case wouldn't it also mean the more browsers you have on one machine and also the more devices you have on one IP address the more likely you are to be blocked?

Also I was paying a balance for my daughter yesterday and there was a 'ticket held for...' counter on the payments page. Do we think this is likely to come into play on the 28th? So if we get that far are they actually going to be held for us and therefore can we almost celebrate one page early?

Edited April 8, 2019 by smudger

JoeyT · April 8, 2019

I seemed to be more successful in the days where I was refreshing multiple tabs as if my life depended it than I have been recently where i've been more conscious on how many times i'm pressing F5.

Padgey · April 8, 2019

25 minutes ago, smudger said:

can we almost celebrate one page early?

Surely confirmation e-mail is the earliest we can celebrate!

shuttlep · April 8, 2019

For two years in a row I have had two browsers open

explorer and Chrome

Chrome works better on my work computer so I have had many tabs open, refreshing like my life depended on it . but for two years now I have had several open on internet explorer and every so often i just check explorer and refresh. and both years when i have gone to check explorer they have got through to the page and then I have got tickets.

this is all i will do from now on , I can never quit my job, as the three times I have got tickets they have all been on the same computer. I am now trapped.

ledwards · April 8, 2019

The guy that got through for 3 sets of friends was using an auto-refresh tool. I don't know exactly how long he was refreshing for, though. Might have been 1 hit per second which would not of triggered an IP block

Lubic · April 8, 2019

1 hour ago, smudger said:

So if we get that far are they actually going to be held for us and therefore can we almost celebrate one page early?

53 minutes ago, Padgey said:

Surely confirmation e-mail is the earliest we can celebrate!

Some people, including myself (trying for others) got to the final screen with the timer, but got stuck with a loading bar after clicking the final 'buy tickets' button. The timer ran down, we were dumped back to the start, and the tickets were gone.

In conclusion, there is absolutely no celebrating to be done until you have that confirmation screen!