Tickety-boo
Oct. 5th, 2008 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaGlastonbury tickets go on sale (way earlier than usual) today. Other years, buying tickets online has involved spending hours glued to a browser which won't load pages, complicated phonecalls to people who've been able to load the buying page, all manner of things.
Last year four of us made a concerted attack from four locations; despite having been up very late at a hen night in Henley, I was in the office in Reading before 9am. ChrisC was in his office. Carolyn was at her home. Simon went to a friend's. We were ready... in the end, of course, the tickets didn't sell out til well into the actual festival. We didn't know that, though, and we had an hour or so's frantic communication on ICQ and phones until Carolyn bagged our tickets.
This year's plan was a bit calmer, since we weren't expecting a rush. Less go-to-the-office and more reach-out-of-bed-for-laptop. We got a call at half past eight: Carolyn had already bought the tickets, half an hour before the official start-time of the sale.
I hadn't even woken up and reached for the laptop yet.
Actually... I feel kind of cheated. I think I might go and find a webpage which times out and try to load it for a while.
Last year four of us made a concerted attack from four locations; despite having been up very late at a hen night in Henley, I was in the office in Reading before 9am. ChrisC was in his office. Carolyn was at her home. Simon went to a friend's. We were ready... in the end, of course, the tickets didn't sell out til well into the actual festival. We didn't know that, though, and we had an hour or so's frantic communication on ICQ and phones until Carolyn bagged our tickets.
This year's plan was a bit calmer, since we weren't expecting a rush. Less go-to-the-office and more reach-out-of-bed-for-laptop. We got a call at half past eight: Carolyn had already bought the tickets, half an hour before the official start-time of the sale.
I hadn't even woken up and reached for the laptop yet.
Actually... I feel kind of cheated. I think I might go and find a webpage which times out and try to load it for a while.
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Date: 2008-10-05 11:11 am (UTC)