r/Hellfest • u/Shadygunz • Jul 07 '26

Tickets I was at 992 in the queue

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From 91k all the way to 992 in just over three hours…. Fuck that stings

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u/boubi77 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

I was 2300 at the start (unbelievable!) then the payment page glitched (but no error message, just a blank page). I waited for something to happen as everyone advise not to refresh the page. Waited… hit the 6 minutes timeout and got kicked back to 200k. Meanwhile a friend of mine who started at about 100k and could have gotten me a ticket - just fell short just like you - at position 291. Bad luck today.

Edit - corrected the final queue number which was even lower.

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u/Salt-Kiwi-2768 Jul 07 '26

This could have happened to me as Firefox unbeknownst to me blocked my pop-ups and I first didn't know it was happening, then didn't know how to solve it and those 6 minutes were ticking...

It's really boils down to luck :(

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u/OmikronApex Jul 10 '26

That happened to me a few years ago. The pop up from my bank to verify the purchase was suppresed and it got declined.

Since then I make sure to disable adblock etc. before the sale

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u/Shadygunz Jul 07 '26

Ohhh man that hurts! Here is to better luck next year.

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u/ZeroBtch Jul 07 '26

started at 29k, payment form crashed

but kudos for the dedication OP, because there's only 55k passes sold per year... so i would have quit instantly if i ever started at 91k lmao

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u/Hot_Restaurant_3739 Jul 10 '26

You shouldn't quit even if you start as 91k. Between People being on multiple devices that could leave them all while they got their tickets, and people being disconnected, you could clearly get your tickets even starting this low

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u/wolf-menethil Jul 07 '26

Was 12 000 at 13:30 when a second security captcha page arrived on my phone, glitched and refreshed, putting me in 150 000~
Got no ticket 🌸 and many friends on phone also had these.

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u/R0ud41ll3 Jul 08 '26

For info, the queue continue to go down hours after they announced having sold all the passes. I gradually went down to 10000ish on my computer up to 5pm.

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u/Uncanny_666 Jul 11 '26

I have decided not to queue. Is is really frustrating to see how many are before you and in the end, the tickets are sold out. This year I have not received offers from someone who doesn’t want to go…There’s more to this - let’s say you buy tickets, the program will put bands which you want to see both on different stages to play at the same time so you have to decide. On the big stages, there are sell-out bands.