To be fucked off with friends re Glastonbury Tickets

[PhillliPhillli]

The last two years I have been lucky enough to get tickets in the main sale for myself and a few friends.

They all want to come again next year (ticket sale next week). Not one of them can be arsed with helping to get tickets. Ticket sale is “too early”, “I wouldn’t be any good at trying”, “oh I’ll just leave it up to you”. One of them has just text and asked if I can add her other mate to our group (so now I’m trying to 6 instead of 5.

Frankly I want to just say we didn’t get any tickets and just try for one myself. I’ve got no problem going alone and I’m sick of the whole thing falling on me. They’re happy to enjoy the festival but don’t want to do any of the actual work of getting there!

@fedup21 I think they mean that volunteers clean the loos.
Anyway OP I think you have a rubbish group. It's Glastonbury, it's not a work team building event. They have all the enthusiasm of a dead fly. I would consider giving them a tight deadline to pay you and then selling the tickets on if not.

Tickets can't be sold on

@EachandEveryone the volunteers that do toilets are from WaterAid. Oxfam do stewarding only.

@fedup21 that’s not how Glastonbury tickets work. You can’t sell them. Deposits have been paid, and the balances need to be paid in April, otherwise they go back into the general resale. Each ticket that doesn’t pay the balance loses £25 admin. So the OP will be £100 out of pocket for the 4 tickets if they don’t pay and there’s nothing OP can do about it

fedup21 and kittlesticks
As I and a number of other posters have already mentioned, you can’t sell Glastonbury tickets on - the tickets have photo ID and aren’t transferable. If you change your mind about going between now and April (or if OP gets fed up of trying to sort out her slightly rubbish mates) you can hand them back to the Glastonbury ticket site before April and they will put them into the resale. After that, there’s nothing you can do and you will be responsible for the full cost (a whopping £265 this year). I think you can take out ticket cancellation insurance which I wouldn’t normally go for, but may be a wise move in view of said rules.

X-post Derbee!

Ah ok I didn't know that - but actually that's a really good policy as it means there are more opportunities for people who missed out first time around.
Anyway OP, I still think they sound like naff friends.