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Ticket stress just part of the Glasto process, again
by Mike Diver
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The BBC News website has been contacted by several disgruntled music fans who were denied tickets by faults in what organisers claimed was a much-improved system.
Fabio Barreiras told the website: "I don't understand how it has improved. I was calling constantly as well as logging onto Aloud (operating as Glastonbury ticket agent) for two hours and still had no joy! Why is that?"
Another complaint from Manchester suggested that Aloud's online booking system was in some way to blame, with pages not loading fully, if at all.
Bosses at Aloud have since said that this year's sales went smoothly. Well, as smoothly as can be expected when half a million people log onto the same website at the exact same time. Whilst many still missed out, it seems that the process was simpler and more efficient than the mess of last year. Another BBC poster from Derby commented: "It's always going to be a shambles but it was better than last year by far."
Those that did get tickets are reminded that photographic ID is required at the gate this year. That hasn't stopped tickets arriving on eBay, mind.
Read the entire BBC piece, plus comments, here.
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Ticket stress just part of the Glasto process, again
Bothered. I got a ticket.
heeeeeeeeeee. -
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Although i think i've got a ticket (wont be happy till im holding it though) and hence im not pissed off, i do think that it went a lot better this year. Unlike last year where the system actually crashed for about four hours this year it was at least a much more effiecent system, in that they were selling tickets constantly. As a result, instead of an overnight vigil at my pc (and a really bad day at work the next day having had no sleep) at least this year the whole shambles was over in 3 hours. Yep it's shit for those who didnt get through, but thats simply a case of demand exceeding availability, and there is an arguement for a lottery system in the future (which looks likely), but given the fact that apparently there wasnt time to instigate a new system, i think that they did the best job possible with the old one.
Getting up that early on sunday with a hang over though... -
Ticket stress just part of the Glasto process, again
I'm a smug git cos I got tickets, but it was just so much easier this year. I went on and got through pretty much straight away, last year I was on from 8pm on the day they went on sale, and I only got tickets at about 12pm the next day. I feel sorry for those who didn't get tickets but come on, it sold out completely in 3 hours, that's not that much of a pain is it?
Pretty much everyone I know who wanted to get ticket got them. -
Ticket stress just part of the Glasto process, again
Tickets on eBay are getting cancelled - none of them are getting through this time. Short of changing name by deed poll, goodness knows how it would work anyway.
I got tickets easily enough after just 10 minutes of struggling through. But if you think of the amount of tickets there were to sell and the amount that tried, it would have been a physical impossibility for everyone to get them - even if they all logged in at 9am. -
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Yeah, everyone I know who got a ticket, got it from that mirror site on seetickets.com/g2005
They kept that quiet though, people only seemed to know about it through website messageboards and stuff.
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Ticket stress just part of the Glasto process, again
Please, no lottery. That would be a disaster if they introduced that.
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Ticket stress just part of the Glasto process, again
Well, gee, 'Fabio Barreiras', you sponge brained dribbling loon, do you think it could be because demand outweighs supply?
'Why is that?', f'sake -
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i got mine through the standard aloud.com page, and i know about 10 other people who did the same,
However towards the end, when booking for my last mate, i couldnt get through on aloud.com and that seetickets link came through for him... -
Ticket stress just part of the Glasto process, again
i'm so glad i couldn't care less about Glastonbury. -
Re: Ticket stress just part of the Glasto process, aga
I got tickets, and my mates did. We're great.
Seriously though, it was so much better than last year (yes, I did get tickets then too). The fact that the tickets sold out in 3 hours meant that even if you didn't get one, you didn't have to spend 2 days arsing about frantically trying and worrying about it. At least you knew soon enough. With an event of this size there are always going to be some problems, especially with demand far exceeding supply, but generally I think Aloud should be congratulated on getting their act together after the shambles of last year. I thought the system coped very well. -
Ticket stress just part of the Glasto process, again
wel i could, didn't get one. :-( -
Ticket stress just part of the Glasto process, again
That seetickets mirror page came through for me too...definitely wouldn't have made it otherwise. Though yeah, won't count my chickens till I'm holding the damn things...
It was better than last year (though I would say that) - then I was up till 3am on the phones. -
Ticket stress just part of the Glasto process, again
My home computer wouldn't work on buying them. So I assume not everyone's will. My dad's work computer did and so me and my mateys were able to get all ours. Easy peasy. -
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I'm with you idlewildman.
I feel bad for folks that want to go and miss out, but I'm just so glad I'd never go. Not even with a free ticket.
It's the living arrangements that would piss me off, toilets, camping etc.
Are the streets there this year? That might make me feel a tad envious.
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Ticket stress just part of the Glasto process, aga
Oddly enough the pattern seems to be this: everyone who managed to get a ticket thinks the new system rocks. Everyone who didn't thinks it sucks. -
Ticket stress just part of the Glasto process, again
I have no desire to go to Glastonbury.
so i am Meh :) -
Ticket stress just part of the Glasto process, again
after last years ticket-seeking efforts id rather shit on a burning toilet.
so i got leeds tickets today! -
Ticket stress just part of the Glasto process, again
Tried, didn't get. Was angry. Accept reasons. Am still angry. Found out I can now afford a holiday. No longer angry. -
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Fuck off. You cunt. Don't care. Fuck you. You cunt. -
Ticket stress just part of the Glasto process, again
Why is it that the last two years of Glasto tickets have gone so quickly - it never used to used to......I remember gettting tickts in 97, 98 and 99 no problem at all and you could still get them up to about 6 weeks before the event.
This year I got a ticket but the people I was going to go with didnt.
And whose fuckin idea was it to out Kylie on........... -
Re: Ticket stress just part of the Glasto process, again
It's because of the fence I think, in previous years a lot of people didn't bother buying them because they knew they could just turn up and jump the fence somehow. The year after the new fence was introduced, everyone started to buy tickets as they could no longer sneak in.
Also I think Glastonbury is hyped more today than in previous years.
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