Glastonbury 2014
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Man of Honour
Was that last year? Not working for me.
Man of Honour
It's disgusting the way they allow tickets to be bought by those 'in the know' first.
Man of Honour
Sold out.
Associate
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Didn't manage to get one.
If indeed the hosts file redirect worked for many people then that is an absolute scandal.
If indeed the hosts file redirect worked for many people then that is an absolute scandal.
Soldato
If SeeTickets managed to provide a decent infrastructure, and it's been the same for the last 3/4years, then people wouldn't have to resort to finding 'backdoors' to the booking page. And the information is freely available and there were plenty of people on Twitter, Facebook and various forums offering help on how to use the HOST/DNS 'trick', so it's not as if it was hidden in the darkest corners of the internet.
Plus you've got to remember, there's limited ticket numbers and everyone is out for themselves - so any advantage and all that.
Plus you've got to remember, there's limited ticket numbers and everyone is out for themselves - so any advantage and all that.
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No one should have an advantage.
It is a trick. If overriding your own provider's DNS server's domain listing for Seeticket is required, and Seeticket never intended their ticketing services to be accessed by using that IP address, then it's inherently tricky by nature. And no offence, but I think it's slightly churlish of you to suggest that it's somehow naive to expect to buy tickets through official channels.
Associate
People moan that they're servers are crap, yet they manage to shift 120,000 tickets in an hour and a half. That seems pretty good to me. I can't think of a fairer way of doing it?
Soldato
It's not naive, it's years of experience buying Glasto tickets - SeeTicket's have always provided, and i don't doubt always will provide, a p-poor service when it comes to Glasto tickets.
And it wasn't any different this year - multiple devices, multiple internet connections (mixture of physical and VPNs) using multiple DNS providers, booking page contentiously timed out (even past the sell out announcement). And friends suffered the same.
If you didn't seek out an advantage or outright refused to use said 'trick' which was posted plentiful on Twitter and other social network, so it certainly wasn't hidden from you or anyone else, then it's your lose and you only have yourself to blame.
Bottom line, i did what i needed to get tickets. 'Haters Gonna Hate' and all that
Managed to get some here going the legit way but we had multiple crashes when we got to the payment bit. We even got tickets for another group. Once the initial problems were sorted out with see tickets it was pretty smooth tbh. But I guess there shouldn't be those problems in the first place.
Man of Honour
Bottom line, i did what i needed to get tickets. 'Haters Gonna Hate' and all that
You don't need to be like that over it though :/
Soldato
Perhaps but i'd say it's justifiable considering there's a handful of bitter comments in this thread, as well as across other forums, towards people who simply used their initiative by bothering to go searching (wasn't even a search; 30 seconds on twitter gave you the correct IP's and tutorials) for a solution to the horrendous service being provided by SeeTickets.
Man of Honour
Where was anything directed at an individual?
It read more like you getting your panties bunched at people that didn't like the service because it worked for you.
Get off your high horse.
It read more like you getting your panties bunched at people that didn't like the service because it worked for you.
Get off your high horse.