Glastonbury Tickets and Motorhome Hire

This is an article from MSN by Rob Morgan, read the original post here.

Assuming you were organised enough to register, here’s how to maximise your chances of getting a Glastonbury ticket when they go on sale tommorrow.

• Make sure you’ve registered. The closing date for this was March 14, so if you haven’t done it already, forget it, you ain’t going.

At 9am on Sunday 6 April, be in front of a computer and a phone and try REALLY REALLY HARD TO GET A TICKET.
 
There’s no silver bullet. But, if you absolutely must get a ticket, here are a few tips that might help:-
 

• Treat it way too seriously. You have to run this like a military operation. This whole article is faintly ridiculous, I know. All this fuss for a silly shouty mudbath, and there’s a war on - but if that’s what you think, it’s not surprising you don’t get through.
• Work as a team. You can each buy four tickets per person, so help each other out and quadruple your chances. Have a list of everyone’s registration numbers. Have a plan for what to do if each person gets through. 
• Remember, it’s quite likely you’ll all suddenly get through at once - then what are you going to do?
• Stay in your own house. Whatever happens, you can guarantee that by 9:30am, there’ll be people bragging on internet forums that they got tickets no trouble, then they got through a few more times just for kicks. Ignore them. It’s not that they’re unusually skilled at pressing buttons repeatedly, they just got lucky with their phone exchange or internet hub. The more places you try from, the better your chances.
• It’s all about the internet. Each year, more tickets are sold online. If you know what you’re doing, you can try things like turning off proxies and firewalls, using a work connection with high contention, and turning off images on your browser. It probably doesn’t make any difference, but it makes you feel like you’re doing something. 
• Don’t forget the phone. There are still loads of tickets available on the phone. If you can get into a redial rhythm, you’ll probably get through eventually. You can tell when you’re not even getting close refreshing the internet, that’s when you really hammer that phone. 
• Don’t bother with your mobile. Come on, those things don’t work half the time in normal conditions. You really think you’ll get through with that? And, no, pressing 5 for ringback is no help. Keep your mobile to take the calls from your mates telling you how they almost got through and hung up.
• Don’t buy a link from ebay. By about 9:45am, the guy who was bragging earlier will be selling a "GUARANTEED LINK" at £5 a shot. Sometimes those links will get you one stage further, but it’s hardly worth paying for - and you’ll probably find it on a forum for free. The danger of reusing any link is that you’re continuously refreshing a ‘busy’ page that’s never going to get you anywhere.
• Be lucky. One thing you can be sure of is that the annual Glastonbury tombola pushes communications technology to the limit. Actually getting a busy tone or a 404 page is a result - most of the time, nothing happens. It’s impossible under these circumstances for the networks to behave fairly. So some people are going to get through easily and some are doomed to get nothing – until that horrible moment when you get a ringing tone and every web browser finds the page at once. This means they’ve sold out. 
• If you do get a ticket call 0800 612 8719 ASAP or click here and reserve your motorhome, motorhome hire is a much more civilized and safer way to enjoy Glastonbury Festival.

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