What do you mean, is it not real? I got it too, but I’d had the previous ones saying they were going to take me off the database unless I confirmed I wanted to stay on, and I did nothing about those so this is confirming I’ve now been removed (and will have to fully re-register if I want tickets in future).
Hmm well I’ve seen others saying scam, and the look and feel of it don’t match the other e-mails I’ve been getting.
I got confirmation from Glastonbury that I had kept my registration…
I’ll do some more digging but if this is indeed real then I have some e-mailing to do!
This is real pal, it’s from SeeTickets
Yeah first thing I did was search the e-mail and it did come up about how scammers can use it. Hmm ok will email and check what’s going on but my details are still registered so maybe it’s just an error!
False alarm everyone
I’ve just re-read it and think it’s just poorly worded. There’s a few threads on Reddit so seems to have landed badly but seems to be just saying that if you didn’t re-register it is just confirming it will be deleted. Could have made it clearer
Registration deadline is 5pm today!
My Glasto success rate is abysmal and so I have a question:
Y’know when you’re waiting in a virtual queue and there’s a message on the screen telling you that the screen will auto-refresh in 20 seconds or whatever? Do you actually wait out that 20 seconds (which feels like an eternity) each time, or do you just go ahead and smash F5 until you get through?
- Wait it out
- Refresh refresh refresh refresh refresh refresh refresh
Wait it out but have other tabs/browsers/devices on the page as well
Constantly refresh, but if you do more than 60/min you’ll be rate limited. Each actual refresh (ie properly ctrl+f5) should fire off a new connection attempt. It’ll be a marginal gain but that’s what it comes down to IME
Refresh refresh refresh. One device for each able hand. Everybody in the house has to join in. Teach your cats to refresh. Pay the neighborhood urchins tuppence per refresh. Do not get in the group chat complaining, only post in the group chat to say you got tickets, otherwise stfu and refresh.
Gonna try from abroad. Apparently easier to get tickets?
This is basically why bots are useless. Can set them at the refresh rate, and it’ll save you some bother, but refreshing constantly with your finger every 1-2 seconds is about as good as you’ll get.
On your main internet/broadband you should apparently have one browser and one page open. Super fast broadband obviously helps. Then as many phones, devices connected to mobile data also refreshing on a single tab as possible (and every one of your friends in their houses doing the same)
Anecdotally, I’ve tried multiple times from abroad and always found it even harder… Have absolutely no idea if that was bad luck or there’s anything in it.
The amount of urban legends around getting tickets is cute. We’ve met loads of people at the festival who think they know the secret, certain devices being favoured or suppressed, certain locations being good or bad.
You have to roll a 1 on a 10,000 sided dice to get a ticket. So get as many dice as you can and roll them as often as you can (without spamming). If all your friends in London don’t get tickets but all your friends with Samsung phones do, then that’s just a coincidence.
another one fallen victim to Big Samsung, you hate to see it
Would love to go back to Glastonbury but think the stress of the idea of everyone in my friendship group but one or two people getting tickets is too much to bear. Last festival we did in a big group was great because about 3 of us decided we were going then more and more people kept signing up because getting tickets wasn’t such an ordeal.
The true way to game it is to set up loads of virtual machines and brute force the connection. Get 1000 bots rolling a 1/10000 chance instead of your group of 6. Gotta be a big old nerd to know how to do that though
Oh lol, I was absolutely convinced it was easier (admittedly from one person telling me).
Look at Johnny Pals over here!
Oh yeah. I just meant it wasn’t worth going to the effort of programming a single bot to refresh for you, because a rapid-fire one refreshing faster than a human will get blocked, so you might as well just sit there refreshing. Obviously, if you’ve got 1000 of them it’s a different story