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Glad you like it. :) And yes: this is specifically for Gigs and Tours. But the basic principle can be applied pretty much everywhere. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

How I got tickets for July 2nd at RAH

How I got tickets for July 2nd at RAH

Background: This is based on my experiences trying to get tickets for Royal Albert Hall July 1st and 2nd. I almost got two tickets for July 1st but my credit card got rejected due to some error. For July 2nd I got four tickets. Preparation The website. Get familiar with the site selling the tickets. Go (almost) all the way through the booking process for other events on the site. Is it possible to create an account and prefill adress and credit card info (as it was on Gigs and Tours)? This can up your chances of getting through the payment process before timeout. Is there an option to book the "best available" tickets? Computers. The more computers the better. Avoid tablets and phones as they're slower for typing. People. The more people the better. Ideally you want one person per computer, but one person can utilize for example six computers, like I did when trying to get tickets for July 1st in RAH. For July 2nd we were three people to six computers. How I made this possible is described below. Internet connection DO NOT put too many units on one connection. We had three computers on WiFi and the other three each had their own phone hooked up as modem. Use a cable instead of for example Bluetooth for higher speed. The special trick I think the #1 reason we managed to get four tickets was this: Selenium IDE which is an add-on for Firefox for web browser automation. If you have no clue what I'm talking about this might be too big a mouthful for you. But if you know what, say, a "macro" is this could be very useful for you. The basic idea is that you hit record and click around and it'll save the steps you took. You'll then be able to play back the steps. I used the following steps for my Gigs and Tours macro or "test case". I then inserted that same test case 1500 times (could be any number, just plenty) in the same test suite for repetition. assertNotTitle Booking Form This will fail the test if we're on the booking page which has that title. It'll then jump to next test and that too will fail - so we stop refreshing the page. [*] refreshAndWait This step won't be reached if we're on the booking page. [*] select css=table.price-list select:first-of-type label=2 This will select two tickets in the first quantity box it can find - i.e. where it doesn't say Not Available or Sold Out. On Gigs and Tours ticket types are listed with the most expensive first so the macro will prefer a higher price. [*] clickAndWait id=buyTickets Click the Buy Tickets button. [*] clickAndWait link=Buy tickets Click another Buy Tickets button which is necessary on Gigs and Tours to actually lock the tickets. So basically this spams refresh as quickly as it can and checks if there are tickets available. If there are it will click through to booking. And when it has clicked through to booking it will stop refreshing and just fail on the first step - which is very important. Some of these steps were auto recorded by Selenium IDE, some weren't. For example the CSS selector in the "select" step was custom written to find the "best available" tickets (or most expensive, really). Some sites might have an actual option to select the best available tickets making it easier. One important thing: Don't forget to stop the macro if you get through to booking. This is important because it'll start refreshing again if you click through to for example pay with PayPal. This almost ruined it for us. But with a few more attempts the macro ended up selecting four Grand Tier Box tickets for us. First on one computer and then immediately after on another. We then booked them in separate names. I wanted to test this before sharing. Apart from the hiccup it turned out to be beneficial for us. So if you feel comfortable messing around with stuff like this go ahead and try.

Anyone near G17 in Grand Tier Box seats? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

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I feel like I should write out how I got 4 tickets. I'm a web developer so I had a trick up my sleeve, but maybe other people in here will have the skills to make use of it too. I never tried it before so I didn't know for sure how it would work beforehand. Therefore I haven't shared it yet but will post tomorrow. We need to beat these bastards stealing our tickets. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I feel like I should write out how I got 4 tickets. I'm a web developer so I had a trick up my sleeve, but maybe other people in here will have the skills to make use of it too. I never tried it before so I didn't know for sure how it would work beforehand. Therefore I haven't shared it yet but will post tomorrow. We need to beat these bastards stealing our tickets. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And btw I'm for the July 2nd one. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Would anyone be fresh to meet outside the hall for just like 5 mins? I'm with friends for the concert but would love to see some faces. :) Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I feel for everyone who didn't win this lottery. Luck is a huge factor. I'm usually not that lucky, but this time I was. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Agreed 100 %. Best GS era song by far. My favorite bit is the the finale. Starting with Will hitting the drums and then epic Johny solo. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Oh it was hard. And nerve wrecking. We were very lucky. But it did take three guys and six computers. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I tried this morning to get tickets for July 1st but failed because my card got rejected (valid details). But this afternoon me and two friends spammed F5 on 6 computers and of course Gigs and Tours was woeful but after a nerve wrecking 30 mins we managed to get 4 tickets on two names for July 2nd. 4 Grand Tier Box seats! Me and three friends are going. This is my biggest dream coming true. I've never been to a Coldplay concert before. This is unbelievable. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Yeah, they were 100 % correct! Must've been a temporary error. That said I managed to get 4 tickets for July 2nd!!!!!!!!! \o/ \o/ \o/ so me and three friends are going. I've never been this happy. :-D Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Know what's sad? I had two of the highest price tickets and then my card got rejected. No idea why. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm trying to get four tickets on two names - hope I'm lucky. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Of course I meant Charlie17 earlier. And btw, amazing work MosesTheMarshmallow Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

'Xactly Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Blakexy1125, if you do end up recording a vid or something would you then mind sending it to me too, now that you took the time? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Great, but odd when considering what it says here: http://m.gigsandtours.com/event/coldplay/royal-albert-hall/785800 "Some or all of the items for this event require you to enter a promotional code. You will be able to enter a promotional code here when this event goes on sale on Friday, 06 Jun 2014 at 9:30AM." Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well, it still says the thing about promo code here: http://m.gigsandtours.com/event/coldplay/royal-albert-hall/785800 two different pages... :| Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah, it also says that you need a promo code when the sale starts 6 June. Doesn't make any sense... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

GS is #1 in the Danish iTunes album chart too. :) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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