Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Emily Eavis says "follow our lead"

Despite it having been a bit of a nightmare, Emily Eavis is convinced forcing people to preregister with a system that has only the scrappiest privacy policy, and then still spend hours struggling with fallen-over websites, is the way ahead:

"I really hope other promoters follow the lead," she explained. "There's nothing much in it for the promoters, because a lot of people think 'Well if we sell out, it doesn't really matter if it sells to touts.'

"But we really feel quite strongly that people are being ripped off, and we want to stop that."

You won't feel ripped off. You may still, however, feel pissed off if you spend all of Sunday staring at a blank internet explorer window and still came away without tickets. It's interesting that "beating the touts" has become the yardstick, instead of giving people a decent experience.


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

So you didn't get a ticket then? Seemed fine from my end :)

Anonymous said...

when tickets went on sale for the first game at the new Wembley (the England under-21 friendly against Italy), the website put applicants in a queue and a friendly page beamed from your monitor telling you where you were in the queue and an approximate time until you were served. 45 minutes later a form pops up, details are entered, and tickets bought. Even though they're 'constantly improving' and everyone who's now part of the scrum has applied to take part in advance, why does buying tickets for Glastonbury still feel like someone opened the floodgates and legged it, letting fate (and crashed websites) decide? Not to mention what seems like a VIP check-in for overseas punters using the international number... - Elvis.

Anonymous said...

What's wrong with the touts anyway? At least then you'd still stand a chance of getting some tickets from eBay if you missed out in the first place.
Anyway, from my experience a far cheaper option is to turn the stereo up really loud, sit in a tent in your back garden and get a load of students to throw warm lager over it.

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