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| king mob |
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Forum Steward
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That's it for tickets this year.
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| waite_chris |
| Posted: 01-April-2007 at 1:30pm | IP Logged
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Festival Virgin
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Ok, i've been lucky enough to gwet one of the last pairs of coach travel tickets.
Does anyone know if this means that we HAVE to go by coach?
Also, is it a different camping area?
Anyone had a coach ticket before?
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| flyleen |
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Sacred Spaceman
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wish i found you guys earlier...could not get in to buy tx
hope for the 2nd round tx 
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| johnnycrowe |
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Festival Virgin
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damn
when is the 2ND round?
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| flyleen |
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Sacred Spaceman
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april 22nd 9am is 2nd round tx 
still hope!!!
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| king mob |
| Posted: 01-April-2007 at 8:06pm | IP Logged
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I would imagine they'll be one last resale end of May so it really isn't hopeless yet.
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| Polly |
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I got mine 23rd May 3 years ago
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| seibu |
| Posted: 02-April-2007 at 9:51am | IP Logged
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Festival Virgin
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I just wanted to say, I thought it was a very unfair system this time - I think probably the most unfair since this absurd situation started in 2004.
In 2004, it was extremely difficult to reach the ticket pages, but at least everyone had an equal chance as each page refresh was as likely (or unlikely) to work as the last. 2005, it has to be said, was excellent. With increased server capacity it was genuinely a first come, first served competition.
But this year has been a case of "who you know". SeeTickets appear to have skimped on the server capacity compared to 2005, and as a result it was virtually impossible to get to the ticket page, but once you did, you were able to keep going back and buying infinite tickets! It's hard to imagine how it could be any less fair.
I've been 'lucky' every festival year since '97 (although of course it didn't used to require luck!), so I'm not just bitter about not going. I genuinely think that for the amount of money SeeTickets make out of this, they could do a better job. It's not impossible to purchase or rent web servers to handle millions, even several millions of hits in a minute. And bothering to do this would make the whole situation much fairer for everyone. At the very least they could test their systems to eliminate bugs like the "going back gets you infinite tickets" one this year. I really feel for people who missed out - you've every right to feel cheated.
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| king mob |
| Posted: 02-April-2007 at 2:56pm | IP Logged
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I really don't see the 'unfair' allegation comes from. You seem to suggest there was a conspiracy (this year has been a case of "who you know") when in reality it was just friends helping each other out just as they've done in the last few years of ticket sales.
Complaining about servers and the like is fine, but the bottom line is Seetickets are providing a service that Eavis is paying for and he's trying to obviously do that on a budget. Now Seetickets have their faults (as we all know) but this year they seemed to do an decent job without the huge server crashes of past years.
I understand you being bitter about not getting tickets but it's a pointless and quite empty rant. With 400,000 registrations and 137,000 tickets they'll be plenty of upset people. There was no conspiracy, it didn't involve any tricks, it was simple luck. Now there is a resale in three weeks that you can focus yourself in getting tickets then rather than wind yourself up in Conspiracy Theory and spurious accusations.
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| seibu |
| Posted: 02-April-2007 at 3:30pm | IP Logged
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Festival Virgin
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Did you even read my post? I've got tickets!
Like most people, I got tickets because I happened to know one of the lucky people who got through to the site once. Anyone who got through once was then able to book as many tickets as they liked.
I never mentioned the word 'conspiracy', or alleged there was a conspiracy. It was obviously just incompetence on the part of SeeTicket's web programmers - a technical oversight.
My point was simply that Michael Eavis and would-be festival goers have a right to expect better from such a high-profile ticket sale. And that the flaw in the system I've described made the process far from fair.
That's hardly a rant, is it?
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