Pipine Posted August 29, 2020 Report Share Posted August 29, 2020 Sad times for those of us without tickets but totally understandable from the festivals pov - whether it’s a capacity reducing measure or just because the 2021 festival is so uncertain atm. I’m clinging onto the hope that things are very different as we go into summer 2021.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycra Posted August 29, 2020 Report Share Posted August 29, 2020 Thinking logically about the apparently shelved October sale, if GF do not need the money then in a time of great uncertainty there is no need to have one. I recall having read somewhere on a forum thread that ticket sale proceeds are not released by See to GF until the months proceeding the festival itself. If so this would further my train of thought. We need also to remember the October deposit/April balance ticket system was introduced ca. 12 years in response to a flagging one-off ticket sale held in April. In creating a lower entry threshold to obtaining a ticket it has helped fans buy in to going to Glasto. Most other large festivals do not have such a system and still operate full price tickets sales in the year of the event. So in the current climate, with no prosect of a return to mass gatherings on the horizon, limited/reduced international travel, fan & performer attendence uncertain and with an established procedure for selling tickets in 2021, hosting a new sale in October benefits only us ardent fans desperate to get a golden ticket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suprefan Posted August 29, 2020 Report Share Posted August 29, 2020 6 hours ago, Scotdy said: Glastonbury is a business. The primary goal is to sell tickets. The ticket stress theory is way off the mark. They either haven't had enough returns to justify the costs of a Oct sale, or, as I would guess, they are holding out to see if the festival will be on next year. Every ticket refund will generate a small outgoing cost to the festival, so why increase the costs by having a sale in October if the business needs to issue refunds a few months later along with negative PR. As much as they are a business they do have a heart behind it. Same as to how they felt the need to announce the initial line up potentially knowing it was going to get scrapped within weeks. And maybe if you read more than the one sentence you couldve seen you just repeated what I said in the rest of the post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suprefan Posted August 29, 2020 Report Share Posted August 29, 2020 28 minutes ago, Lycra said: Thinking logically about the apparently shelved October sale, if GF do not need the money then in a time of great uncertainty there is no need to have one. I recall having read somewhere on a forum thread that ticket sale proceeds are not released by See to GF until the months proceeding the festival itself. If so this would further my train of thought. We need also to remember the October deposit/April balance ticket system was introduced ca. 12 years in response to a flagging one-off ticket sale held in April. In creating a lower entry threshold to obtaining a ticket it has helped fans buy in to going to Glasto. Most other large festivals do not have such a system and still operate full price tickets sales in the year of the event. So in the current climate, with no prosect of a return to mass gatherings on the horizon, limited/reduced international travel, fan & performer attendence uncertain and with an established procedure for selling tickets in 2021, hosting a new sale in October benefits only us ardent fans desperate to get a golden ticket. So you mean to tell me all the american festivals that started to use payment plans over a decade ago have been doing it wrong? Maybe research a bit more and see the major ones that now offer minuscule down payments ( barely £15 after conversion ) just to get people onboard.🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycra Posted August 29, 2020 Report Share Posted August 29, 2020 9 minutes ago, Suprefan said: So you mean to tell me all the american festivals that started to use payment plans over a decade ago have been doing it wrong? Maybe research a bit more and see the major ones that now offer minuscule down payments ( barely £15 after conversion ) just to get people onboard.🤔 I am referring to fests here in the UK where payment plans/deposits have been a relatively new feature. I said nothing about doing it wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul ™ Posted August 29, 2020 Report Share Posted August 29, 2020 34 minutes ago, Lycra said: I am referring to fests here in the UK where payment plans/deposits have been a relatively new feature. I said nothing about doing it wrong. Other festivals were doing it around 10 years ago here in the UK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycra Posted August 29, 2020 Report Share Posted August 29, 2020 Defer to greater knowledge as to when payment plans arrived in UK as alwayd paid in full. Can't remember them being offered at Leeds, Beautiful Days or T. Be interesting to know how they operating in current climate. Presumably those part way through payment schedule were suspended 🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazyfool01 Posted August 29, 2020 Report Share Posted August 29, 2020 Delayed sale might also mean that people might know better where they stand financially with the furlough scheme coming to an end there will be quite a few people worried about jobs .... that should hopefully have resolved itself before April Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazyfool01 Posted August 29, 2020 Report Share Posted August 29, 2020 so why the january cut-off for payments then ? .... surely they would just move this till april ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blutarsky Posted August 29, 2020 Report Share Posted August 29, 2020 16 hours ago, OG said: This thread needs to be renamed "those of us without tickets are fucked, unless we wanna clean toilets" I came on here tonight to try and brighten my mood after doing four twelve hour shifts this week, obviously hasn't worked, I'm going to watch the Johnny cash, Hurt video to cheer me up My feelings in a nutshell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoo Music Girl Posted August 29, 2020 Report Share Posted August 29, 2020 46 minutes ago, blutarsky said: My feelings in a nutshell Got to agree with this sentiment as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatyeti24 Posted August 29, 2020 Report Share Posted August 29, 2020 1 hour ago, Big durbs said: After a conversation this afternoon with someone on the inside , it would appear it’s more to do with insurance, than all the other factors that have been discussed at length on here That's always the way. I know we like to discuss things inside out, but so often the decision comes down to insurance, licences, permission and H&S. It's far less exciting than tour schedules though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeppelin Posted August 30, 2020 Report Share Posted August 30, 2020 Because I think a lot of the ticket discussion was in here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DareToDibble Posted August 30, 2020 Report Share Posted August 30, 2020 On 8/28/2020 at 8:08 PM, Wellyboot said: ok fine you've sold it to me 😂 Oi! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wellyboot Posted August 30, 2020 Report Share Posted August 30, 2020 28 minutes ago, DareToDibble said: Oi! Sorry Dibbsy I didn't mean it really Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guypjfreak Posted December 21, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2020 As next year's festival season is looking like it's going to be taking another big hit due to this orrible covid 19 I'd personally REALLY REALLY like Mr E and the team to roll our glastonbury tickets over for another year.. It's got to help them just keeping it in the band getting interest.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwinevino Posted December 21, 2020 Report Share Posted December 21, 2020 What I would worry about is what they do if they have to do 2022 with reduced numbers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
incident Posted December 21, 2020 Report Share Posted December 21, 2020 1 minute ago, Redwinevino said: What I would worry about is what they do if they have to do 2022 with reduced numbers If there's enough restrictions in place by 2022 that it impacts on numbers in any possible way, then what I'd worry about is the food riots, and the general societal collapse. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zahidf Posted December 21, 2020 Report Share Posted December 21, 2020 3 minutes ago, Redwinevino said: What I would worry about is what they do if they have to do 2022 with reduced numbers if summer 2022 is like this then we will have bigger problems than Glasto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brave Sir Robin Posted December 21, 2020 Report Share Posted December 21, 2020 According to this 'insider' on Twitter, it's off but tickets rolled over again: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwinevino Posted December 21, 2020 Report Share Posted December 21, 2020 7 minutes ago, incident said: If there's enough restrictions in place by 2022 that it impacts on numbers in any possible way, then what I'd worry about is the food riots, and the general societal collapse. 6 minutes ago, zahidf said: if summer 2022 is like this then we will have bigger problems than Glasto Fair points, but do you see this Government of clowns getting us out of this by 2022? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrelarmy Posted December 21, 2020 Report Share Posted December 21, 2020 58 minutes ago, Brave Sir Robin said: According to this 'insider' on Twitter, it's off but tickets rolled over again: Emily has already debunked this particular users tweets. It’s just a troll account and should be ignored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brave Sir Robin Posted December 21, 2020 Report Share Posted December 21, 2020 38 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said: Emily has already debunked this particular users tweets. It’s just a troll account and should be ignored. She's said something about this particular user? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrelarmy Posted December 21, 2020 Report Share Posted December 21, 2020 Just now, Brave Sir Robin said: She's said something about this particular user? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalifire Posted December 21, 2020 Report Share Posted December 21, 2020 Glad there's a thread for this. I'd like to think that in the event 2021 does go ahead, an option will be given to roll over tickets anyway, for people who either can't get there (us international folk) and people who'd rather not risk it, given only a fraction of the population will be vaccinated by June (and even then, we don't know how long the vaccine immunises people for). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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