steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
While in previous years there did seem to be a way to get into the system early to find out your result, last year it was a lot tougher. Only once the first batch of magazines had been delivered was the ballot website opened up to the public.
You then needed one of the lucky people who got a successful magazine from that first set, to publish the link to the payment webpage, whereupon you could try logging on to the site and if it worked (or there was a balance to pay), then obviously you had also got in and were just being impatient and should have waited for the postie to deliver the magazine like a normal person would. However if it said your login details weren't recognised, then you should regard that as a note to start boarding up your letterbox in advance so that the commiserations magazine would never actually arrive and you could kid yourself that you somehow might still get a place.
I however did not need to stoop to these levels - I got my commiserations magazine nice and early last year so never needed to even try logging on.
You then needed one of the lucky people who got a successful magazine from that first set, to publish the link to the payment webpage, whereupon you could try logging on to the site and if it worked (or there was a balance to pay), then obviously you had also got in and were just being impatient and should have waited for the postie to deliver the magazine like a normal person would. However if it said your login details weren't recognised, then you should regard that as a note to start boarding up your letterbox in advance so that the commiserations magazine would never actually arrive and you could kid yourself that you somehow might still get a place.
I however did not need to stoop to these levels - I got my commiserations magazine nice and early last year so never needed to even try logging on.
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