A Miracle!

[Iain Ferguson]

Well done Mike,

I just couldn't be bothered....

I only know one other person who got a ticket, and they got theirs 
10mins for they all ran out....

he was to say the least rather excited and relived that his now 
impending RSI was not for nothing....

Iain

M Holmes wrote on 02/04/2007, 16:42:

 > Amazingly, for the fist time since 2001 we got Glastonbury tickets.
 > Looks like we'll be out of Hawkfest and into Glasters. Anyone else
 > going?
 >
 > Of course this wasn't without hassle. Everyone had to submit photos this
 > year to support Eavis's perverse pogrom on ticket touts. Thus all Eavis
 > really had to do was run a lottery which allocated tickets to one in
 > three of those who registered their photographs.
 >
 > But no, this was too simple for the people who have previously had a
 > substantial fraction of the nation waste multiple man-hours redialling
 > critically overtaxed phone lines. So we had to get up early on a Sunday
 > morning to travel to work to take advantage of fast comms and press
 > Reload a thousand times each to get tickets. No doubt some pressed ten
 > thousand times before giving up. A national RSI epidemic is now
 > predicted...
 >
 > I do hope I meet the man. Perhaps he can be persuaded that ticket touts
 > are simple people arbitraging a price mismatch in favour of those who
 > want tickets and that if he really wants them out of the loop then the
 > most sensible thing is for he himself to auction tickets on the web so
 > that they are sold at the market-clearing price. As an added bonus,
 > those hundreds of thouands of man-hours would be available for more
 > productive use, and the charities favoured by the festival would
 > probably have a multiple of the current money made available to them.
 >
 > In short: Glastonbury Fayre needs Laissez Faire.
 >