some tickets didn't have barcodes, people printed out loads of tickets themselves, no bar code scanners at the gate, etc, etc, etc. organizational disaster basically.
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some tickets didn't have barcodes, people printed out loads of tickets themselves, no bar code scanners at the gate, etc, etc, etc. organizational disaster basically.
They did oversell. 15k tickets for a ~5k capacity venue, they blatantly oversold it.
The place was a total dose to get to, the queue to get in was 3 hours, I really doubt many folk would have gone through that to get in for free. We got in about 9, they were still scanning / manually checking every ticket. Hence the 3 hour queue.
The capacity of Stubnitz (the main attraction) was 700. What the fuck did they think was gonna happen?
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They did oversell. 15k tickets for a ~5k capacity venue, they blatantly oversold it.
find that very hard to believe. i'm sure that's what it felt like though. it was a large high profile event run by people who have run many festivals before, there is no way that they knowingly oversold by 3 to 1. that's not to excuse the complete shambles it turned out to be though.
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ticketing was inadequate. Various people FACT have spoken to reported on their tickets not being checked, while Becky W on Twitter claims that at last one gate had run out of wristbands. Alarmingly, one commentator on The Guardian claims that a glitch in Bloc’s system allowed his son to print as many e-tickets as he liked (whether they would have worked is another issue, but when they’re barely / not checked then it doesn’t matter). FACT only had eight passes designated, but were yesterday sent at least 12 individually numbered e-tickets (we didn’t use the spares). Another FACT reader on Twitter this morning speculates that fake tickets may have broken scanners.
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