Is there a fake loading page and what to do while it's loading?

forgotoldemail · October 5, 2019

I've never been to a festival with this much demand for tickets. Have always wanted to go to Glasto but my job has always dictated my annual leave which meant I have never been 'allowed' to go. This year, I have no fixed annual leave, so am desperate to go!

I just have two questions:

- Is there a fake loading page e.g. if you go over the refresh limit? I've read comments about this quite a few times on google, efestivals and reddit.

- After pressing refresh, I found that a couple of times the page took an extra long time to load so I'd exit and start again. Was that the right thing to do? Other times, after pressing refresh, it would refresh super super quickly back to the white holding page rather than taking ages like those times i've just described.

Sasperella · October 5, 2019

1 minute ago, forgotoldemail said:

I've never been to a festival with this much demand for tickets. Have always wanted to go to Glasto but my job has always dictated my annual leave which meant I have never been 'allowed' to go. This year, I have no fixed annual leave, so am desperate to go!

I just have two questions:

- Is there a fake loading page e.g. if you go over the refresh limit? I've read comments about this quite a few times on google, efestivals and reddit.

- After pressing refresh, I found that a couple of times the page took an extra long time to load so I'd exit and start again. Was that the right thing to do? Other times, after pressing refresh, it would refresh super super quickly back to the white holding page rather than taking ages like those times i've just described.

Question 1: Yes, we think so. I'm pretty sure I've been on it before...as when the sale had sold out I could refresh for a good five minutes after without seeing a sold out message. It seems you go there if you press F5 too quickly, but we think you may also be able to end up there through other (unidentified) means. And sadly none of us know how you tell if you're on it or not...

Question 2: I'm not sure about this. I'd let it load, incase the page its loading too is a registration page.... but then I've never successful bought tickets myself before, so maybe thats what i'm doing wrong!