{"id":2886,"date":"2022-11-07T03:30:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T11:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/07\/glastonbury-sale-hit-by-technical-glitch-demand-far-exceeds-supply\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T03:30:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T11:30:16","slug":"glastonbury-sale-hit-by-technical-glitch-demand-far-exceeds-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/07\/glastonbury-sale-hit-by-technical-glitch-demand-far-exceeds-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Glastonbury sale hit by technical glitch, demand far exceeds supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"primary\">\n<p class=\"standfirst\">Glastonbury\u2019s general ticket sale was hit by a \u2018technical problem\u2019 yesterday (Sunday) morning, but organisers still said demand far outstripped supply.\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Tickets went on sale at 9am local time for the UK\u2019s flagship summer festival, but there were reports of the site repeatedly crashing during the booking process. Fans claimed that the website would not load for a long period of time, while others were kicked off at different times including during payment.<\/p>\n<p>Glastonbury\u2019s ticketing partner See Tickets said on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seetickets\/status\/1589193280520355841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>: \u201cWe\u2019re working on a technical problem. If you\u2019re trying to book Glastonbury tickets please bear with us \u2013 we\u2019ll be back up and running soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tickets took over an hour to sell out, and organiser Emily Eavis took to social media to apologise to those that did not secure tickets for next year\u2019s festival.<\/p>\n<p>Eavis <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/glastonbury\/status\/1589196696462200832\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>: \u201cAlthough we are thrilled that so many of you want to come to next year\u2019s Glastonbury, we\u2019re sorry that a huge number of people missed out on a ticket this morning \u2013 because demand far outstripped supply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to everyone who tried to buy a ticket. Your loyalty to this festival is deeply appreciated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, coach and ticket packages sold out in just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2022\/11\/04\/glastonbury-coach-and-ticket-packages-sell-out-in-22-minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">22 minutes<\/a>. Eavis added that there would be a ticket resale in spring next year, if Glastonbury fans wanted to try their luck once more.<\/p>\n<p>Glastonbury is set to return to Worthy Farm in Somerset from June 21-25.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \n\n<div class=\"tax-cat-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"col-sm-6 tax-cat\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Filed under<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn\" >Awards<\/button>|<button class=\"btn\" >Ticketing<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"col-sm-6 tax-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Tags<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn\" >Ticketing<\/button>|<button class=\"btn\" >Stadiums<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2022\/11\/07\/glastonbury-sale-hit-by-technical-glitch-demand-far-exceeds-supply\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Glastonbury\u2019s general ticket sale was hit by a \u2018technical problem\u2019 yesterday (Sunday) morning, but organisers still said demand far outstripped supply.\u00a0&#13; Tickets went on sale at 9am local time for the UK\u2019s flagship summer festival, but there were reports of the site repeatedly crashing during the booking process. Fans claimed that the website would &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1297,696,364,73,99,2583,3163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glastonbury","category-glastonbury-festival","category-live-music","category-sales","category-see-tickets","category-somerset","category-worthy-farm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}