| Glastonbury |
| Thornley | Martin, I saw an advertisment in the Lancashire Evening Post last night, 2 tickets for Glastonbury £500 is that the going price? Maybe I have been hiding away too long but that sounds like a lot of money to me [:0] |
| Hayleypink | they arent that much to buy normally. its just that they sell out within a few hours and ofcourse some people just buy them to sell on at 5 times the price to make a profit. some are selling for even moreon ebay. ticket touts are a real problem, but something that is hard to stop. i worked in ticketing for 3 years (and worked on glastonbury sales) and really once it sells out its hard to get a ticket even if you are in that industry, the only option if you really wanna go is to buy a ticket from someone like you saw above, yet pay a stupid price.
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| Martin | quote:
Originally posted by Thornley
Martin, I saw an advertisment in the Lancashire Evening Post last night, 2 tickets for Glastonbury £500 is that the going price? Maybe I have been hiding away too long but that sounds like a lot of money to me [:0]
I would think that the person who is selling the tickets, has been holding onto them until the last minute so that they can make a good profit. It's only a few days until The Glastonbury Festival starts so if you really want to go, you can't afford to shop around. |
| Spitfire | If EVERYONE refused to buy from touts. Wouldn`t they (the touts) disappear overnight? |
| Hayleypink | that would never happen spitfire. if people are desperate to get to see a show or a gig and its sold out the touts are the only option they have.
there are steps that happen that stop it happeneing to much.
the most common thing the ticketing industry uses to prevent ticket touts is to put a ticket limit on a show.
this works by: say for example:
there is a ticket limit of 4 tickets; per billing address (not per credit card) that means people can only by a max of 4 tickets as although they might have 6 credit cards and so might the person they are living with they are only allowed 4 per billing address. so this stops them - they do try though but like with the company i used to work for they pay a good amount of money to have a contract with a big banking firm who check every single booking so no one can lie about their billing address. and also the bit i love is that if they try and make a booking with a fake billing address any valid booking they did make gets cancelled!!!! he he!!!!
but these touts operate in large groups and so thats how they get away with it. |
| noel | From what I've seen on TV of the recent festivals people covered in mud , lack of toilet facilities poor sound systems, I'd need to be paid £500 to go to the festival.
Don't suppose there are any female mud wrestlers at the festival? Just a thought. |
| Martin | I do now that inspectors will be in the Glastonbury/Pilton area, checking on sound levels and also phone mast radiation levels from the extra phone masts that have been put up around the festival. |
| Kath smith | A work collegue of mine takes the festival week off and gets paid to set up and clear up therefore getting paid to be at the festival. Unfortunately she doesn't work at the same place this year and I've lost touch so I can't find out how you go about it, but the photos she brought in after were amazing and there may have been mud wrestlers there from what I saw!!!!!! |
| LDunlop76 | I saw my sister today and she told me her boyfriend goes every year. Normal ticket price this year is £100. She said Rob comes home stinking because he hasn't had a shower during the festival! I wish I'd gone years ago when it was a much smaller affair. I kind of hanker after going to something like that, but the tales of high crime and low hygiene don't half put me off Glastonbury! |
| Martin | quote:
Originally posted by Kath smith
A work collegue of mine takes the festival week off and gets paid to set up and clear up therefore getting paid to be at the festival. Unfortunately she doesn't work at the same place this year and I've lost touch so I can't find out how you go about it, but the photos she brought in after were amazing and there may have been mud wrestlers there from what I saw!!!!!!
They don't actually pay you for working on the festival. You have to buy a ticket, then you do your shifts and they refund your money. You can apply by writing to Mr Eavis. |
| Hayleypink | you wouldnt catch me camping in a million years |
| William R | Linda, you say that high crime and low hygiene, would put you off, low crime and high hygiene would put all the others off too. Cheers, Bill. |
| LDunlop76 | quote:
Originally posted by William R
low crime and high hygiene would put all the others off too.
LOL! |
| LDunlop76 | quote:
Originally posted by Hayleypink
you wouldnt catch me camping in a million years
Awww, Hayley - it's not as bad as you think! With electrical hook up, you can even use your hairdrier in your tent!
That said, I can't say I've ever camped in this country - I would if only the weather were more reliable, but there are few holiday situations more miserable than sitting in a tent, watching the rain come down, training your bladder to maximum capacity because a trip to the loo will involve a 5 minute trek across sodden paths!
However, camping in the sun is glorious - waking up to the sound of birdsong, sitting barbecuing in the evenings with a bottle of something chilled, looking up at a sky full of stars on the last night-time trip to the loo..... |
| noel | At Hayleys age I loved camping for a holiday. The sun always seemed to shine in Cornwall, the cider flowed and there was plenty of female company at nights. ( midges usually!!) Now the only time I camp is when I go walking for a week with my mate usually up in the Highlands, Skye or when we feel like whimps, The Lake District. |
| Kath smith | Used to camp but have upgraded to a caravan now, we have a shower,toilet, 4 burner gas hob and full oven, fridge, the works! It's like a grown up's wendy house really.
Just keep your fingers crossed it is sunny in Cornwall in August, when we go there.
Thanks for the info on Glastonbury i will pass it on to my God Son who is of that awkward age and wants to get sweaty to music without his mum going mad.
Must say it looked like hell on earth when I saw it on tv my daughter being a teenager we have to suffer some weird noises that pass for music these days. |
| LDunlop76 | quote:
Originally posted by Hayleypink
LINDA YEH when its clean there!
Hayley, when I go, I insist you come with me! I'll get her in a tent yet[;)] |
| Martin | quote:
Originally posted by LDunlop76
quote:
Originally posted by Hayleypink
LINDA YEH when its clean there!
Hayley, when I go, I insist you come with me! I'll get her in a tent yet[;)]
It's never been done yet Linda. Maybe we could start off with a caravan[?] |
| Martin | I came back from Kent on Sunday evening. There was a trickle of cars heading towards London, all identifiable by the orange Glastonbury festival car park stickers in the windscreens.
Today I got a phone call from a friend who was visiting another friend in Glastonbury. We decided to meet up in the afternoon in the town. I had to choose another way home, as there were hundreds or probably thousands of cars heading out of town on their way home. It's a good job I know the area as it would have taken me a lot longer to get anywhere. Altogether I think the town does benefit from the festival. I'm not sure about Pilton though, they did say that crime was down by about a half this year, as more people got the message that they wouldn't get in without a ticket. |
| Hayleypink | quote:
Originally posted by Martin
quote:
Originally posted by LDunlop76
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Originally posted by Hayleypink
LINDA YEH when its clean there!
Hayley, when I go, I insist you come with me! I'll get her in a tent yet[;)]
It's never been done yet Linda. Maybe we could start off with a caravan[?]
Does no one get the point???? I dont like sleeping outside!!!!! |
| noel | You are not actually outside Hayley, it's just that the walls are a bit thin.<g> |
| LDunlop76 | quote:
Originally posted by Hayleypink
Does no one get the point???? I dont like sleeping outside!!!!!
How can you say till you've tried it? [:p] |
| Hayleypink | coz i have been to the field at fiddington and have seen how mad it is that people actually sleep outside, the disgusting state of the toilet and the fact you have to shower in showers that have been used over and over again! |
| noel | quote:
Originally posted by Hayleypink
coz i have been to the field at fiddington and have seen how mad it is that people actually sleep outside, the disgusting state of the toilet and the fact you have to shower in showers that have been used over and over again!
I don't know where fiddington is Hayley but many sites are graded just as Hotels are.
This site sounds like a very poor one. Don't judge them all by this. Think you're fighting a losing battle here Martin. |
| LDunlop76 | Noel, why aren't you down in Glasto, you neo-Pagan you [?][;)][}:)] |
| noel | quote:
Originally posted by LDunlop76
Noel, why aren't you down in Glasto, you neo-Pagan you [?][;)][}:)]
I think in my best Charles Laughton imitation Linda, "The smells, the smells" [8D] |
| LDunlop76 | quote:
Originally posted by noel
I think in my best Charles Laughton imitation Linda, "The smells, the smells" [8D]
According to the press, there are more middle class people at the Glastonbury festival this year and fewer "crusties". However, is the sanitary facilities are as bad as has been said, I reckon the BO will still be pretty ripe! [xx(] I'd like to go just once and experience it for myself, but maybe when the loos and showers have improved? |
| Hayleypink | LINDA YEH when its clean there! |
| LDunlop76 | quote:
Originally posted by Hayleypink
coz i have been to the field at fiddington ..... the disgusting state of the toilet and the fact you have to shower in showers that have been used over and over again!
Eeeeugh! You have just totally put me off ever going to the Mystic Gardens gathering, Hayley. Every campsite I have ever been on has had the loo and shower blocks cleaned at least twice a day and all sanitary facilities have been pristine. Try a 4 star campsite on the continent - they have smashing shower blocks, plus pools with chutes and slides, a shop, bar and takeaway, often a restaurant.... The large pitches are marked out by hedges to give privacy - I'd rather stay there than a hotel if the weather's right![8D] |
| Martin | We could always move the gathering to a better site. Then we can set up our tent. |
| Hayleypink | well, even if they are cleaned 2 times a day that isnt good enough for me - I mean me going into a shower block....i dont think so! i like staying in a hotel in a nice cosy bed with a duvet. not a tent! |
| Caroline | I went in 88, you're only in the loos for a couple of minutes anyhow! |
| Bill Rigby | I'm with you, Hayley, but chacun son gout! |
| skitzy | What does "chacun son gout" mean Bill
Eileen |
| LDunlop76 | "Chaun a son gout" means "each to his own taste". |
| skitzy | Thanks Linda, i've never heard it put that way before.
Eileen |