Tickets for Electric Picnic 2026 sold out in under two hours. Back in September, all 86,000 tickets were sold to fans across Ireland, the UK and internationally
If you missed out, the good news is simple. There will be resale tickets. Every year, plans fall through and fans people who were certain they'd be in Stradbally end up unable to go. Those tickets come back into circulation. However, with the original sale in September, the gap between sold-out and showtime is where ticket touts and scammers come out in force, Electric Picnic has become one of the most heavily targeted events in the country for ticket fraud.
Here is how Electric Picnic resale actually works, when tickets tend to appear, and how to make sure the only thing you lose is the price of a wristband:
There is one rule that protects you from almost everything that can go wrong: buy resale tickets only through the official resale platform.
In Ireland, reselling tickets above face value for a designated event like Electric Picnic is illegal under the Sale of Tickets Act 2021. As a result, the organisers distribute all legitimate resale tickets through a single official, price-capped, fan-to-fan system. A seller who can no longer attend lists their ticket at face value, capped at the original price plus the booking fee. When you buy it, the original barcode is cancelled and a fresh one is issued straight into your own account.
Importantly, you are not being sent a photo, PDF or screenshot. You receive a genuine, newly issued ticket that nobody else can use. A scammer cannot sell the same barcode twice and a screenshot is worthless because mobile barcodes refresh constantly and cannot be copied. End to end, you are protected.
The ticket resale and transfer window does not open straight away but typically one to two weeks before the festival and you will get an email once it goes live. Before that point, transfers are switched off on purpose to make life hard for ticket touts.
If someone is trying to sell you a ticket before the transfer window opens, that is your first sign of being scammed
Once the window opens, the most ticket drops usually occur in the final week before the festival starts. Weather plays a part too. A bad forecast for Stradbally tends to encourage a wave of last-minute returns. In the past, the festival has also released extra batches of official tickets, often known as ‘production drops’ These sell out fast, so they reward people who are paying attention.
Set up an account before the transfer and resale window opens. Have your card details so that when a ticket appears you can check out in seconds. Resale is first come, first served.
Check often. Daily in the final fortnight, and far more often in the last few days. Listings appear unpredictably throughout the day. Keep an eye on your emails to stay on top of official last-minute releases and the transfer window opening being announced.
Electric Picnic ticket fraud is not a rare horror story. It is a well-documented, recurring problem, and the people running it are getting more sophisticated.
In 2025, Garda investigated a woman with more than six thousand Instagram followers who allegedly scammed dozens, possibly hundreds, of people. Victims trusted her precisely because she looked legitimate, with a real profile and a big following. One person was scammed out of hundreds of euros after the seller sent photos and video messages to "prove" the tickets were real. They were not. The pattern is almost always the same. You are asked to pay by bank transfer up front. Once the transfer is complete, the seller goes quiet, or claims their account was hacked, or that there is a problem on their end, and the ticket never arrives.
If you do get caught out, act fast. Contact your bank to try to reverse or freeze the payment, report the listing to the platform, and report it to your local Garda station or the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111.
The tickets are out there, but they are resisted at unpredictable moments throughout the day. They vanish in seconds. The people who get in are not luckier than you, they just happened to be looking at the exact second a ticket dropped. .
That is a miserable way to spend the run-up to a festival. Sitting on a resale page, hammering refresh, terrified to leave your phone in case you miss the one ticket you actually need. You cannot win that game by trying harder. You win it by being told when something changes.
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