The Release of More Early Entry Tickets for Leeds and Reading Festivals
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This is a petition to Festival Republic - organisers of the Leeds and Reading Festivals - to release more early entry tickets for access to the campsite on Wednesday the 20th August. We want more early entry tickets to be available for the following reasons:
a) In order to combat ticket touts who have purchased more early entry tickets than necessary with the view to make a profit (EE tickets are approximately 100 for 2 on Ebay.co.uk, when the actual cost for this should be 20). This kind of selfish behaviour is disgusting and we are sure that Festival Republic frowns on it too.
b) Many long-time festival goers feel they weren't given any notice whatsoever of the 'limited' number of EE tickets this year and therefore did not make arrangements to buy them so early on (5 months before the festival). Going on past performance of ticket sales it was presumed by many that EE tickets would not sell out as there would be as many available as weekend tickets. If you had a weekend ticket, you could get early entry - simple. With sufficient notice we would have purchased the required tickets a.s.a.p.
c) It will give everyone a fair chance to find suitable camping pitches and avoid a lot of aggrevation. From past experience I can personally say that the situation on the Thursday is pitiful for anyone unfortunate to arrive on that day. There is hardly any space left to pitch a camping space for groups of friends of 6 or more. In addition to this, what little space there is left is covered in litter, food, and other obnoxious materials. Add to this the fact that people without EE tickets can access the campsite at midnight on the Wednesday and this makes the situation much much worse. Please try to imagine how difficult it is going to be pitching a tent in the dark, onto a floor covered in litter - some of which could be harmful (eg broken glass, empty tin/aluminium cans, raw meat).
We therefore appeal to your better nature to do the best that you can to release more early entry tickets and help alleviate these issues.
a) In order to combat ticket touts who have purchased more early entry tickets than necessary with the view to make a profit (EE tickets are approximately 100 for 2 on Ebay.co.uk, when the actual cost for this should be 20). This kind of selfish behaviour is disgusting and we are sure that Festival Republic frowns on it too.
b) Many long-time festival goers feel they weren't given any notice whatsoever of the 'limited' number of EE tickets this year and therefore did not make arrangements to buy them so early on (5 months before the festival). Going on past performance of ticket sales it was presumed by many that EE tickets would not sell out as there would be as many available as weekend tickets. If you had a weekend ticket, you could get early entry - simple. With sufficient notice we would have purchased the required tickets a.s.a.p.
c) It will give everyone a fair chance to find suitable camping pitches and avoid a lot of aggrevation. From past experience I can personally say that the situation on the Thursday is pitiful for anyone unfortunate to arrive on that day. There is hardly any space left to pitch a camping space for groups of friends of 6 or more. In addition to this, what little space there is left is covered in litter, food, and other obnoxious materials. Add to this the fact that people without EE tickets can access the campsite at midnight on the Wednesday and this makes the situation much much worse. Please try to imagine how difficult it is going to be pitching a tent in the dark, onto a floor covered in litter - some of which could be harmful (eg broken glass, empty tin/aluminium cans, raw meat).
We therefore appeal to your better nature to do the best that you can to release more early entry tickets and help alleviate these issues.
269 Signatures
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James Ellis
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Mike
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Richard Ward
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- I whole heartedly agree, I purchased my early entry ticket on the tuesday before leeds festival last year along with many others and the limited number this year is ridiculous. I thought festival republic were supposed to have 'rescued the event from a slow slide'.
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Mike Jay
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Mark Hart
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- DO it!
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Molly Roberts
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- I agree, if your paying 155 to go to a festival it's unfair that some may gain more benefits whilst others can't because they couldn't get an EE ticket. I got one last year and they are totally worth while for a hell of a lot of reasons
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Alex Collinson
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Adam
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james darcy
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- give me a early ticket plz!
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Hannah Wilson
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Tom McLaughlin
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Matt Belcher
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David F
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Bianca
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Richie H
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Dan Preece
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Milli Nuckchady
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Karen
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- Although I think its more of a tout problem than FR's.. however am really hoping that more EE tickets will become available, and if so.. please can we have a bit of notice!
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Amy Roberts
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Sally Woulds
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Tom Lowe
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- Sort it out!
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James Dick
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Claudia Algieri
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Colin Hill
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- I agree completely and utterly with the above statement. I believe it is in the intrests both of Festival Repeblic and the consumer for more to be released. If FR truely are part of the battle against touts then this is something I believe must be done.
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james taaffe
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- had no idea they would sell out so fast and me and my mates were set on gettin them i just couldnt get in touch with a friend to find if they wanted one and by time i did they were sold
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simon hambleton
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Ryan Gardiner
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- The organisers of this festival should be extremely ashamed of themselves. A simple solution to prevent touts from buying up all the tickets would be to simply give everyone (in their conformation email) a security number which, if they so wish can be quoted when buying an early entry ticket. As far as only releasing a limited number of EE tickets, why not just give everyone who has a ticket the chance of purchasing an EE.
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Conor Dawson
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Sarah Heyes
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- ahh c'mon!
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David Ellis
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Daniel Garnett
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Brian Gourlay
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Ashley Barnett
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Ali Smith
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channy
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Adam Kennell
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james porter
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Cameron Bisset
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Jamie Roberts
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- Please, please, please
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Alice Gorman
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Michael Lipton
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Shaun Holland
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- I need early entry
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Simon
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- This is so different from previous years with no explanation. Please understand!
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John Wookdward
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David Shuck
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Cris Brownley
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Michael Cole
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cal
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- should be free but release more
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Sean Gavan
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mark
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- i ws shocked to find out they soldo ut
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