Glastonbury 2019

MadYaker wrote: »

I think it's a nice idea. I don't think they'll ever do it though.

Anyway, I'm off to see their Sunday headliner tonite in the warmth of the 3Arena :pac:

Mrs Shuttleworth wrote: »

I disagree. There should be a portion of "loyalty" tickets available to persons who have been registered for upwards of five years and log in/renew their registration details every year but who have never been.

That's just not feasible. You would need to enforce a system of one account per person which is too difficult. Otherwise I could create 10 accounts and 5 years down the line I'll always have one which is due a loyalty ticket.

The current system is quiet fair. The
best way to get tickets is to find yourself a large group of people to maximise the chances of getting through. I didn't try because I've too much sh*t going on next year but the group managed to get about 40 tickets. 8 people missed out, 2 for giving the wrong post code (which I've stupidly done in the past)

That was so bloody stressful!!

This was our first time trying. Managed to bag tickets but not til after a panic because one of my group (there were 3 groups in our attempt) was in another totally separate group that we didn't know about and they'd managed to get through.

Thought I had her number wrong and was so worried it was going to crash. I should have added a 6th from one of our other groups but panicked and just plowed through hoping it wouldn't time out. Feeling so guilty though. Hopefully get them sorted in the resale.

robinph wrote: »

It would be crappy if anyone who's been going forever were excluded, and only newbies went.

Why?

S.M.B. wrote: »

Because loyalty should also be rewarded and certainly not punished.

Nobody is being punished, it really is just luck of the draw.

So how do you define loyalty? Should someone who has been once get the same treatment as someone who has been 7 times? Or maybe a scale down based on the number of years you've been? Prove you been x years and you get bumped up the list?

You're now creating an almost caste or trickle down system of festival goers.

It's too wide to define and absolutely impossible to include everyone and keep everyone happy. The demand is just too high.

Again, that comment was in reference to a proposed system that gives preference to those who have not been before over loyal attendees and not the opposite.

Mrs Shuttleworth wrote: »

I do think some system should be brought in where those who have been many times should temporarily step aside for those who haven't been but who have remained registered with the site.

Put it this way, and just making up an example, if someone was say registered with EP but never got tickets I wouldn't have a problem with a portion of tickets being made available specifically for that group of users at my expense having been four times myself. Where demand overwhelmingly exceeds supply it's only fair.

I'd be shocked if there is many people who have properly tried multiple years and never got a ticket.
Between coach sales, the main sale, April resale and the various unannounced resales in May, people who really want a ticket and put in the effort usually get sorted. You'd need to be very unlucky to go through all of that and repeatedly not get a ticket.

robinph wrote: »

I got nothing and have been going for 20+ years.

efests himself didn't get anything and he's been going for, well pretty much forever I believe.


Annoyed that I didn't get anything, but it really is about as fair a system as you can get. Yes some people won't have internet, but other than that it is basically the same chances for everyone. I thought we were going to be lucky this year as there were people in our groups trying from non UK/Ireland IP's which has worked well for me before, but still not even a sniff.

I don’t think it’s as fair a system as you can get when some people are able to buy over 20 tickets . Should be capped at 4 , 6 is even too many

Anyone know how many total registrations there are?

Basq wrote: »

135K in general resale, and 15K in coach as far as I know.

No I meant total registrations, ie people trying to buy at once?

I think on efests they were saying that odds are around 1 in 10? 135k tickets and over a million trying to get them. The system rewards those who are persistent and obsessive. Between the coach ticket resale, the general resale and the secret resales if you really really want to go and get a bunch of people trying in all the sales you'd want to be very unlucky to not get a ticket. And even if you don't get a ticket there are plenty of other ways to get there. Oxfam and loads of other charities recruit 1000s of volunteers and then there's litter picking etc. Depends on how much you want it. My plan if unsuccessful this weekend was to volunteer with oxfam, I wasn't going to bother with the resales.

Yeah they should be around the same time. Similar to the main sales.

Yeah that could be a bit off the mark, I've no idea really.

Mrs Shuttleworth wrote: »

I feel very cheated after the coach day last Thursday - I got to the holding page no problem and tickets available from various locations but when I selected I got a message "The coach tickets selected must match the number of registrations" even though I'm only registered singly and was only selecting one return trip.

That happened to us too on Thursday.
Seemed to happen to a good few judging by some of the tweets I saw.