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.
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250 signatures
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16 December 2015
250.
Kelly Buchanan
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EE tickets were still available in August last year, why not put the same amount of tickets on sale. Or just limit the amount per person like with normal tickets, its just common sense
10 December 2015
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25 October 2015
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Jordan H
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my first year going leeds ive payed for my weekend ticket and should be entilted to an EE ticket
6 October 2015
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12 August 2015
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Simon Hester
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This is so different from previous years with no explanation. Please understand!
22 July 2015
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15 June 2015
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Marek P
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I think it's an outrage that EE has sold out, and FR failed to explain about the limited number. Last year, they never even sold out, and this year they sold out within a few days. Poor customer care. Unless they release more, there are going to be alot o
8 June 2015
27 May 2015
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Ryan G
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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 quo
19 May 2015
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