Accessibility Links Skip to content. Menu Close. Log in Subscribe. Glastonbury organisers foil touts selling tickets on eBay. Share this article via comment Share this article via facebook Share this article via twitter.
More Stories. Today's Best Discounts. Get us in your feed Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter. He would also like to see prose cutions brought against people using sites that rip fans off. So great was the demand for Glastonbury tickets last year that many fans spent the best part of 24 hours trying to access an inaccessible website and ringing a number that was constantly engaged. The website received 2 million hits and crashed. Eavis promises twice the number of telephone operators to take calls this year, and claims there is a 'tested and retested improved online system' so people should not be left in limbo.
No doubt many Glastonbury veterans will deplore photo ID cards as a sign of how just how mainstream this former bastion of counter-culture has become. Steve Jenner, who runs the Virtual Festivals website, is having none of it: 'It's much better now that you don't have to watch your back all the time or worry that someone might slash your tent in the middle of the night.
This is the price you pay. If you still can't get a ticket complete with photo ID through legit means, no doubt there will be a tout out there with his 'spare'. Glastonbury fights pyramid selling as festival season nears. Moves are afoot to put an end to overpriced resold concert and festival tickets, says Jon Robins.
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