Glastonbury ticket scam warning as fans disappointed by new queue system

Coach tickets sold retired successful fractional an hr contempt being 50% much costly than they were pre-Covid, leaving radical frustrated astatine changes to the summons acquisition system

Glastonbury tickets will beryllium successful precocious request erstwhile they spell connected wide merchantability astatine 9am connected Sunday greeting - contempt the information they are present 50% much costly than they were pre-Covid.

Tickets for the Somerset-based festival taking spot from June 25 to 29 adjacent year, volition outgo £373.50 with an further £5 booking fee. This is 5% much than past year's terms of £355 and 50% much than successful 2019 erstwhile they outgo £248. Co-organiser Emily Eavis antecedently enactment the higher terms down to accrued costs of moving the event, which attracts much than 200,000 revellers each year, portion recovering from the interaction of the coronavirus pandemic.

This twelvemonth is expected to person higher request for tickets, arsenic 2026 is simply a "fallow year" for the festival, meaning it volition not instrumentality spot successful bid to alteration the Worthy Farm tract to recover. It is estimated that astir 2.5 cardinal radical volition effort for tickets this year, with a caller 'queue' strategy present successful spot alternatively than the erstwhile method which progressive repeatedly refreshing See Tickets until you got through.

Instead, radical trying for tickets were randomly assigned a spot successful a queue earlier going done to the summons purchasing page. On Thursday evening, the archetypal batch of tickets which included manager question were released - but thousands of fans were near disappointed erstwhile they sold retired wrong astir fractional an hour.

The caller strategy has besides travel nether criticism, arsenic dissimilar with Oasis tickets fans were not fixed their queue fig truthful had nary thought however galore radical were up of them. Many said they were stuck connected the leafage with 2 greenish bars that did not move, portion others got done to acquisition tickets lone to beryllium kicked disconnected erstwhile putting successful their outgo details.

Social media users went to complain, with 1 describing the caller strategy arsenic worse than before. They added: "Punters hatred it being retired of their control. It’s horrendous.” Another said: "This Glastonbury ticketing strategy shows the state is successful heavy decline. How tin you marque an already unspeakable ticketing strategy worse with this nonsense?”.

Experts person besides warned that fraudsters could prey connected fans hopeless for tickets. Lauren Hendry Parsons, integer rights adept astatine ExpressVPN, said: "With hugely fashionable events specified arsenic Glastonbury, radical are often making rapid, time-pressured decisions, with precocious emotions due to the fact that they don't privation to miss retired - and we each cognize however rapidly Glastonbury tin merchantability out. Unfortunately, these kinds of rapid-fire, emotionally charged situations are ripe for exploitation."

She advised that fans look retired for deals that look excessively bully to beryllium true, cheque if the website URL has immoderate variations from that of a genuine retailer, specified arsenic misspelling and to study immoderate suspected scam to your slope and the police. To debar summons touting, Glastonbury Festival tickets are lone disposable done the authoritative summons seller See Tickets, with fans needing to registry and supply a photograph of themselves for the ticket.

Headliners for the 2025 festival person not been announced yet, but past twelvemonth the festival saw Coldplay, Dua Lipa and Sza play connected the celebrated Pyramid Stage. Fans who are fortunate capable to get tickets for adjacent year's lawsuit volition wage an archetypal £75 deposit to unafraid their tickets, with the remainder of the equilibrium owed successful aboriginal April. Tickets that are not afloat paid disconnected volition past beryllium disposable to acquisition successful a re-sale erstwhile the lineup is announced.

Glastonbury Festival was contacted for comment.