PA Media has more on the fans reporting on their experience of tickets more than doubling from around £148 to around £355 on Ticketmaster after they waited for hours to secure their place at the Oasis Live 25 shows.
An explanation by the website about the “on-demand standing ticket” price says: “The event organiser has priced these tickets according to their market value. Tickets do not include VIP packages. Availability and pricing are subject to change.”
When asked about this issue by the PA, Ticketmaster said it does not set prices, and shared a link to its website where it says costs can be “fixed or market-based”.
Was that your first choice? Were there many left for all the stadium venues?Four tickets secured for Cardiff. Fucking hell that was stressful.
It is the artists promoter that's responsible for it, the band has to take some of the flack tooWell annoyed. Been to the front of the queue 3 times today for it to fail in one way or another.
Now seeing about ticketmaster offering 'in demand' tickets at 3x the face value.
Their description of these are they are selling then at the market value.
But they have already said you can only resell on official channels at face value. So how is the market value any more than face value.
There should be laws to prevent this kind of thing and artists should be standing up for the fans and refusing to work with criminals such as ticketmaster.
Simon Moran making a mint.It’s really shit that they’ve done this, and it’s down to the promoter, which for these shows is SJM Concerts.
Greedy fucking bastards.
I got tickets at £148 which is pricey enough but I know someone who’s just managed to get through after trying all day and they’ve being asked for nearly 400 quid
Fucking pricks
Simon Moran making a mint.
Gigs and tours / see tickets has been unavailable for me since 0700..Managed to get the single ticket I needed for the Friday and took it on the chin and paid the 'on demand' price. I'm not paying for it but it's absolutely outrageous.
GigsAndTours have some tickets but you have to be quick when you're on there.
What bugs me is that this gig is at Heaton Park and I can't think of a worse venue. Getting there is a pain and getting back is even worse. The travel infrastructure just isn't set up to cater for 80k people there.
The sound is terrible if you're near the back, the bars can't cope and the bogs are a disgrace after an hour. The whole venue just isn't good enough and I can imagine the field will be shit as well for the last night of the gigs there.
And to top it all the cost of the tickets is appalling. At least I've got some brownie points with the wife! :)
It's the people paying over the odds that are to blame - the whole event has been hyped to death, the BBC interrupted a news program to announce the 'news' earlier this week and sales of old albums that nobody was buying a few months ago have taken off. The way 'celebrities' are fawned over by every man and his dog is incredible. They made some good records (I have a couple of albums from the period) and might have paid to go and see them in their pomp when then they were relevant, now they're just a couple of old blokes building up cash with a lot of peope making money on the back of it. A bit sad I think but nostalgia is incredibly powerful.It is the artists promoter that's responsible for it, the band has to take some of the flack too
Good luck on hotel prices. Ticketmaster/SJM and the brothers not the only ones fleecing fans! Every Edinburgh Premier Inn hotel for a Friday night was £336 yesterday before anyone even knew they would get one!Was that your first choice? Were there many left for all the stadium venues?
Looking for Dublin or Edinburgh to make a weekend of it but not holding out much hope. Back in the queue at 130k....
It was half his own and half Oasis. Liam also probably plays more Oasis than his own. Think those paying extortionate prices to see them are going to come away rather disillusioned.Because you've also got to sit through two hours of the High Flying Birds dross?
Everyone seems to be flush with cash nowadays too. £600 for 4 tickets to Oasis in a field - no problem.It's the people paying over the odds that are to blame - the whole event has been hyped to death, the BBC interrupted a news program to announce the 'news' earlier this week and sales of old albums that nobody was buying a few months ago have taken off. The way 'celebrities' are fawned over by every man and his dog is incredible. They made some good records (I have a couple of albums from the period) and might have paid to go and see them in their pomp when then they were relevant, now they're just a couple of old blokes building up cash with a lot of peope making money on the back of it. A bit sad I think but nostalgia is incredibly powerful.
Good luck on hotel prices. Ticketmaster/SJM and the brothers not the only ones fleecing fans! Every Edinburgh hotel for a Friday night was £336 yesterday before anyone even knew they would get one!
Noel’s gig at Wigan was great. The HFB stuff was better than the Oasis stuff he did for me.It was half his own and half Oasis. Liam also probably plays more Oasis than his own. Think those paying extortionate prices to see them are going to come away rather disillusioned.
It was, queued for hours mind. Stick at it, mate. When I last checked Heaton Park were close to going but couldn't tell you about the other venues.Was that your first choice? Were there many left for all the stadium venues?
Looking for Dublin or Edinburgh to make a weekend of it but not holding out much hope. Back in the queue at 130k....
A lot of his HFB's stuff like everybody's on the run is very good.Noel’s gig at Wigan was great. The HFB stuff was better than the Oasis stuff he did for me.