2024 Ticket Buying Tips

[K2SO]

5 minutes ago, sadimmock said:

A bit of a catastrophe here. We just got the holding page but a friend of ours got through. However my wife's postcode was rejected despite her having a registration lookup confirming that postcode a week or so ago. 

Did anyone else have this issue?

Yes, a friend of a friend had this issue

[Kurosagi]

Yep, would like to see them try a different system even if the end result is the same just to alleviate the depressing groundhog day experience. God I hate that effing holding page every year.

[henry bear]

2 minutes ago, Ryan1984 said:

It was a main story on the BBC News alongside the Madge rumours to get it even more in the public domain.

Obviously I’m aware of why the sale was postponed, primarily because some people’s accounts got deleted. I’m not convinced it’s resulted in significantly more ‘new’ people attempting for tickets today

[sparkyswitch]

Some friends managed to get tickets for us right at the end of the sale sat in a cafe in Cornwall on there mobile phone, no logic to getting through to see tickets 🤔

[hurdy]

5 minutes ago, Ryan1984 said:

Keeping an eye on the page as people on here claimed they got tickets around this time last year… Doubt it will happen but you never know.

I was one of those - however the holding page was still live last year whereas now it has switched to a sold out page

[Mich1268]

3 minutes ago, K2SO said:

Yes, a friend of a friend had this issue

Yes we had one too

[bowen747]

i really hope it pisses down for the 5 days so people can experience a proper glastonbury and maybe there'll be a chance of getting a ticket next year

[nowyouregideon]

9/14 had success including all the sleepers, not included myself that organised everyone. Furious.

[onemoresolo]

12 minutes ago, devli said:

The problem is that this system massively favours big groups. 30 people trying for 30 people have 15 times as much chance as getting a ticket as 2 people trying for 2. 

This is the only thing about this system that is really unfair, IMO.

[gooner1990]

42 minutes ago, Magma said:

It's enough to make you believe in the ticket gods - I used to have the golden touch with this - from the year the superfence went up to 2017/18, never failed - maybe I got cocky and offended them - not seen a ticket page since!

Yep...got my own ticket pretty much every time until 2015...since then have always relied on others!

[ProperTea]

Not quite sure how but all 36 of us got through and the weird thing is it was the same guy that got us all tickets, who got through 6 times. I am shook.

[majormajormajor]

I got through three times.

Three laptops, all on different public IPs, auto-refreshing @ 1 second on single chrome tabs.

Got through three times on the one laptop.

It's just pot luck of hitting the back-end at the microsecond where there's a session available -- but it's all about maximising your chances.

Edited November 19, 2023 by majormajormajor

[Dreamingofsunnydays]

16 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

the run has ended! Resale is so little chance 

Gutted for you mate. Always love your posts before the festival and close proximity to us. Keep fingers crossed for the resale 

[al_coholic]

13 minutes ago, Tr234 said:

Got to be a better method than have everyone waste an hour of their morning constantly refreshing.

Queue system would probably work better

I joined the queue for Liam tickets and I was 7500+ i didn't get tickets, my friend was 750 and she got tickets. There is no difference with a queue or this system.

[Chris;]

It's been a few years since my last Glastonbury- 2017! I have tried every year since for both the resales and the main sales but no luck, apart from the last year when I'd got to the registration lookup and was working slowly, it then crashed on the payment page and bounced me out of the checkout process back to the holding screen.

I've always tried with a number of devices connected to various networks (and thus different IPs), I had the desktop on the go conected to my home internet, hardwired, my mobile phone on some ropey 4G and remote desktop session into my work computer where we have a meaty internet connection, and nobody around on a Sunday so I'd pretty much have the entire connection to myself.

Managed to get through to the ticket page on the mobile with a dodgy 4G connection, with a manual refresh per second in Chrome - and occasionally letting the timer tick down on the page to see it had any effect (!). But it worked and the checkout process was much improved this time.

The moral of it all, don't give up hope. Your time will come around once again, even if you don't get tickets for a while.

Edit-I'm also not freshly re-registered, in that I did whatever I needed to do to preserve my existing registration.

Edited November 19, 2023 by Chris;

[she bangs the drums]

My daughter got on on the booking page, however it said does not recognise her details. 

She re-registered in August, however looks like it did not complete or has been lost

First time we have missed out since we started attending in 2010. We had a good run, I hope others have a good time. 

[Serenefishy]

I've been screwed. One of our group got through but apparently my postcode was bringing back an error so they booted me and bought tickets for everyone else. I've double checked my emails and my postcode was correct. Either there was an error with the booking system or my friends hate me, either way I'm upset.

Edited November 19, 2023 by Serenefishy

[orelean]

Managed to get through to the “Glastonbury 2024 Deposits” page but white screen from then, tried going back + refreshing but nothing. Eventually kicked me back to the holding page, kicking myself starting to think I should have just waited on the white page..

[PolygonWindow]

First year not going since 2013. Congrats to those who got tickets. Was at peace with sitting next year out and glad that my friends group, who have all never attended, managed to get in. Hope they and everyone else has a wicked time

[Tr234]

15 minutes ago, al_coholic said:

I joined the queue for Liam tickets and I was 7500+ i didn't get tickets, my friend was 750 and she got tickets. There is no difference with a queue or this system.

At least you'd know pretty much instantly though. Saves the hour of refreshing 

[sadimmock]

17 minutes ago, Serenefishy said:

I've been screwed. One of our group got through but apparently my postcode was bringing back an error so they booted me and bought tickets for everyone else. I've double checked my emails and my postcode was correct. Either there was an error with the booking system or my friends hate me, either way I'm upset.

That's the same problem as we had 

[discgoesmic]

In for the 10th consecutive year. See you on the farm! 

[eyebrain]

Got to the payment. Put card details in. Proceed.. time out. Back and again same thing for 5 times. Timer was at 0 eventuslly and went to beginning.. not a sniff later on, no tickets. 😞

[CleanShirt]

So chuffed.. luckily got tickets this year thanks to someone else in my group getting through. Commiserations to those that missed out!

I missed out with general sale tickets for 2020 and 2023. Havent managed to get past the reg page since 2011 and this year was no different.. nothing more than the holding page.

I live in a part of London where I can easily count 5-6 cars with Glasto parking tickets for this years festival in the streets around me and like I say I haven't been able to get past the holding page in years so must be luck of the draw rather than where people are located!

And as for a lottery system... I am dead against the idea. There are enough spectators at Glasto without adding more to the mix. It would just encourage so many more people to enter the draw and exponentially increase numbers. 

[steviewevie]

no joy for me. Congrats to those who managed to get some.