A Miracle!

[Jill Strobridge]

Well done  - yes it seems that the technologically savvy definitely had an 
advantage this year.   Apparently the website didn't time you out so several 
people just stayed online, phoned all their friends and were able to act as 
a focus for anyone else who wanted to buy tickets.   Also having logged on 
once you were able to get back on again several times - I assume because the 
site remembered your details.    So all you really needed was sufficient 
super-speed technology to make the connection in the first place.    It 
would appear that this is the new counter-culture  8-)

Have fun!
jill

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Jill Strobridge <jill.strobridge at blueyonder.co.uk>
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "M Holmes" <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 4:42 PM
Subject: A Miracle!


> 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.
>
> FoFP
>
>