Oi! Eavis!!
xrrf tell us that 395,000 people have now registered for Glastonbury, ie, more people registered IN THE LAST WEEK, than in the four weeks it was open in the first place. Clearly the only PROPER FAIR WAY to sort this out is not let anyone who registered after 28 February buy a ticket until, say, 11am on 1 April, then those of us who followed the rules because we are committed to the festival and its spirit don’t get penalised by all these lazy buggers who were so very keen to go that they couldn’t spend two minutes filling in a form in a whole month. It should be relatively easy, as far as i can tell the numbers were sequential, so just have first question “what is yr number?” and if it’s too high “come back later, lazy” appears…
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Juliet on March 6th, 2007
Quite. Am a bit annoyed that they extended it at all. P says maybe they were worried that there were sufficient duplicates in the first months’ worth that they wouldn’t actually be able to sell all their tickets. BUT STILL.
Kat on March 6th, 2007
Do we know how many people tried to buy tickets in 2005?
The BBC story says “although it meant about 250,000 people who had registered would not actually receive tickets, “it hasn’t increased the number of people being rejected”. .
Surely if they are confident that fewer touts will snap up the tickets then LESS people will get rejected as there are more to go round anyway? It seems strange that they’d word it like that.
marna on March 6th, 2007
It might be that some of the extra oodles of people were from all the postal applications, which would have been tallied up and added on at the end.
(i am still miffed about it, though)
FT's CarsmileSteve on March 7th, 2007
i sent my suggestion to the glastonbury office email (politely reworded from the above) but have yet to hear back (unsurprisingly)
FT's Esther on April 25th, 2007
Hey! that’s not fair. Where’s your good spirit? youre just wound up because you didn’t get a ticket, right? Neither did I. We all tried our hardest to get through. It was just down to luck in the end. It is frustrating not being allowed to go to the best event of the year but that’s the way it goes sometimes. I think if we can’t all go then a type of lottery would be best, that way we don’t have to spend 2-3 hrs trying to get through all at once. Have a heart :)
FT's CarsmileSteve on April 26th, 2007
look at the date on the article, it was written before tickets went on sale (as an aside, of course i got a ticket, but that’s NOT THE POINT). what i’m (still) wound up about is that they set a deadline then extended it without any penalties for the latecomers.