I see tickets...

[j4]

Or not.

I did actually see the "book now" link! But when I followed it, it went back to the "EPIC FAIL" page. The one where the seetickets homepage doesn't explain to anybody who might not be interested in Glastonbury tickets

Good luck to anybody else who's trying to get through...

http://www.seetickets.com/g2008/regform.asp?orig=uk

ETA: I have bought tickets for me and my mum. Now trying to use the spare booking windows I had open for other people!

ETA: Okay, look, I can fairly reliably get a booking window up, but when you hit submit (with reg no, or even with cc details etc) it can still bounce you back to the 'busy' screen, leaving you with no idea whether you've submitted anything. FAIL FAIL FAIL. I am very reluctant to take responsibility for other people's bookings when it is this flaky, after possibly screwing up mpinna's. But if you want me to try, let me know....

ETA I am not trying again for anybody because it is ALL THE FAIL. It should not be able to reset the connection while submitting your credit card details, and if it does, then it should be bloody clear on whether or not this means your booking has gone through. As it is, the registration numbers all come up as "already used" but there's no indication that the payment has been accepted. ARGH.

Comments

[j4.livejournal.com]

Okay!

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~janetmck/glasto.html

BTW when you get past that, all the regnos and postcodes are encoded in the URL:

http://www.seetickets.com/g2008/chkreg.asp?regno4=1234206~CB238AF®no3=1261875~NW53AU®no2=1253916~S101UY®no1=1203068~E20NF&

(those have already been used, just given as an example!)

[uon.livejournal.com]

awesome, thank you!

[j4.livejournal.com]

Oh, but, hang on, relative links. Argh. Will try to fix.

[uon.livejournal.com]

don't worry about it, it's a big mess of javascript; the tickets would probably be sold out by the time it's all fixed. Thanks anyway!

[j4.livejournal.com]

*hides under a rock making dismal squeaking noises*

[juliet]

nononono, it is SEETICKETS' rock. Except they shouldn't be under a rock, they should be WRITING A SYSTEM THAT BLOODY WORKS PROPERLY.

Or we could crush them with the rock.

[uon.livejournal.com]

Throw them into the long drops. It's the only way to be sure.

[uon.livejournal.com]

Thank you *so much* for trying! Srsly!

(I am still hitting reload and redial on the off chance that I get through so I can get a dupe id error, Just In Case, because I'm feeling monumentally bloodyminded...)

[j4.livejournal.com]

I managed to get a duplicate id error with yr registration number on the web (argh, should've screenshotted, sorry!) but now can only get 'service unavailable'.

hate hate hate seetickets

[juliet]

No worry re screenshot: doubt it would have helped.

It looks like once you get to the front page, you're good for 5 min to get through the forms. At that point, you get a *different* busy error. Things I have also seen after that point:
- entirely blank page, no data at all
- IIS busy error.
- Connection reset error.

The "good for 5 min" thing seems reasonable. But at that point, they should be certain that their server can handle however many requests they're letting through. It seems that it can't.

BAD BAD BAD.

[juliet]

I've just got the same again & have screenshotted.

[j4.livejournal.com]

FWIW mpinna had the same submit-falls-over then registration-numbers-already-used thing, and he's just got a confirmation email! Still keeping fingers crossed for yours......

[juliet]

doop says it's appeared! Hurrah! Thank you so much, & sorry for it causing you stress!

[uon.livejournal.com]

WE HAVE TICKETS! Confirmation email just came in now.

j4, I love you for ever!