Glastonbury Festival resale ticket hacks and new system explained
Glastonbury tickets go on resale on April 24 and 27, and the festival has also made a big change to the queuing process - but the Mirror has figured out how to get the best luck possible
Glastonbury Festival is just around the corner, and your final chance is coming up to snag the final remaining tickets. The legendary festival is taking place on the 25th-29th June at Worthy Farm in Somerset - as it has been since it started out as the Pop, Blues & Folk Festival in 1970.
Tickets first went on sale in November, but, as usual, many were left empty-handed. Luckily, there's a second chance to get tickets, with cancelled tickets back on the market. But numbers are limited and will be snapped up quickly now that the full line-up has been released.
The first round of resale tickets goes on sale today, Thursday April 24, at 6pm, for general admission with coach tickets. General admission without coach will go online at 11am on Sunday April 27, alongside resale accommodation options - such as campervans or prepitched tents in Worthy View. As always, there are plenty of hoops to jump through if you have any hopes of getting your hands on these tickets, so the Mirror has put together some tips to give you the best luck.
Where can I buy resale tickets?
Tickets are only available via Glastonbury's official site on SeeTickets - you won't be able to get into the festival if you try to buy them elsewhere. Glastonbury stresses that you shouldn't buy them on any other platform in case you get scammed, which is sadly very common. You might also be tempted to pick a ticket up from a friend, but you likely won't make it further than the gates - it has to be under your registration and photo ID.
How much do resale tickets cost?
Fans were raging this year after they noticed the high price of tickets, and the resale is exactly the same amount. A general admission ticket costs £373.50 plus a £5 booking fee, alongside postage and packing at £10.25 per order. Unfortunately, unlike the first wave of tickets, resale tickets also have no payment plan - meaning you have to have the money ready to go immediately.
What's the resale buying process?
Like the first round of sales, plenty of people will be trying to get Glasto tickets, meaning you have to be primed and ready to queue to be in with a chance of getting lucky. You're allowed to buy up to four tickets in the resale but only one ticket is allowed per person, so make sure you have the registration number and postcode of each person you're buying for.
This year Glastonbury has made a major change which is worth bearing in mind. In the past, refreshing the browser page was a tactic used by many, but this time around the festival has announced that 'everyone who is already on the glastonbury.seetickets.com page will randomly be assigned a place in a queue to access the booking process,' so it's best to simply get on the page and stick with it rather than refreshing.
Are there any tips to increase the odds of getting a ticket?
First of all, make sure you're on the official Glastonbury SeeTickets page a few minutes before sales open today or on Sunday, as anyone joining after that time will go straight to the back of the queue and see their odds dashed. And, as mentioned above, as long as you're on the site you don't need to refresh the page - when you're randomly assigned a queue number a progress bar will pop up to show you how close you are to the booking page.
Refreshing can make you lose your place in the queue, as can trying to reach the site via multiple browser tabs - this can confuse the site and see you starting all over again.
When you're waiting, don't give up until the site tells you tickets are 'sold out.' You might see that tickets have been 'allocated,' but some people will inevitably enter their details wrong or have a payment fail, and those tickets will become available again.
On that note, make sure all of your registration and payment details are correct. As the festival explains on its site: 'UK tickets can now be purchased with a UK debit card or Visa or Mastercard credit cards. International tickets can only be bought by Visa Credit Card or Mastercard Credit Card.' American Express isn't accepted at all. So, have one of the accepted cards ready and if you're using Google Pay or Apple Pay make sure it's set up on that.
If you use the wrong payment method or enter the wrong registration for you or anyone else you're paying for, your details can be locked for up to 10 minutes. The same can happen if you don't complete the transaction within the five minute time limit on the booking page (a timer will show how long you have), and it's likely that someone else might have snapped them up by the time you get back in. So, a bit of admin in advance really boosts your odds of having a lot of fun at Worthy Farm in June.
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