Adam Dalliance on Nostr: Test-run for the Glasto ticket sale this evening. They release the coach-travel ...
Test-run for the Glasto ticket sale this evening. They release the coach-travel tickets Thursday night before general-release on Sunday morning.
The system has changed since previous years. No more mashing the reload button over and over again. Instead, randomly assigned queue-ids.
They imply that the selection between the queue-tickets is random, but also that reloading may lose your place in the queue.
There's a progress-bar on the page once the sale starts. I assumed showing number of tickets sold, but seems like it advances at a different rate on different machines.
The machine where I accidentally left two windows open never budged a pixel.
The machine where I'd used a VPN to connect via Moldova reached nearly the end before sold-out.
So seems possible this progress-bar isn't tracking tickets-sold but some kind of probability-of-being-chosen-next.
In which case: multiple reloads is actually diminishing your chances. The key is to get the page loaded and just wait.
Others in the group reckoned their progress bar never progressed at all, even though they did not have multiple windows or whatever.
Seems likely to be better than the old system, but still isn't just the auction/lottery combo I'd use if I had to dish the tickets out.
Failed to get through, but then there are fewer coach-travel tickets and they aren't ideal anyway, probably will own a micro-camper by the summer.
Good luck on Sunday everyone. You should all press reload all the time to increase my chances as I don't do that ;)
#glastonbury
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