Well never thought id see the day..i know its that rag reporting it but their generally right on these kinda things. I guess thats our multiple nights in Croke Park band sorted for next Summer then✌
One of my friends was the same, swore he wouldn't spend more than the regular ticket price.
Yet he's got a ticket in the UK where he'll pay significantly more that any of those VIP/platinum tickets. I'm not saying he's right or wrong but now his money will just be split between Ticketmaster, Oasis, Ryanair/Aer Lingus and a chain hotel. So in effect, he was happy to pay it.
The pricing isn’t really to do with Ticketmaster, it’s Oasis (or the artist themselves for other gigs)
They could improve their process. Why do it all online.
Ticketmaster could have a few ticketmaster pop up shops in dublin To sell tickets to locals.
Selling the tickets for the irish concerts fully online, means that we are competing with people from all over the world to buy tickets. We haven't a hope
Plenty of normal people paid those prices
*Stops rocking on chair on my porch and lifts lid of hat*
These type of issues with Ticketmaster are not new. Unfair distribution of tickets and pricing, website crashing, bots/touts getting tickets easier than everyone else, have been going on for decades.
Better regulation of event tickets needs to be introduced. Ticketmaster have no interest of changing things unless they are forced.
If more gigs aren't added, there won't be plenty more tickets. Coldplay and Taylor Swift proved that point and their queue numbers were nowhere near as high as the Oasis ones.
Ticketmaster could definitely improve their process
The vast majority of people were always going to be disappointed though.
If the system wasnt working then the shows wouldnt sell out. But they did, almost immediately. So the system is working perfectly.
You just dont like it, and they don't care.
It's working fine for the 170,000 people who got tickets.
I don't see many if any people complaining about the pre-sale process maybe that's the solution on an expanded level?
Croke Park tickets getting swamped by the British, people wasting hours of their time this morning with queues dropping at snail pace levels and dynamic gouging by Ticketmaster is not an acceptable way to sell tickets in 2024
And they'll probably fall out with each other again, and cancel the concert :)
The same number of people wpould be disappointed anyway. There were only a certain number of tickets available. That's not Ticketmaster's fault
I agree. You just haven't a hope in hell on seeing any of them. Why even try when the disappointment is huge.
Went to work for a few hours and left browser open. Just got home and opened computer. Got in, but no tickets left for Sat. Same for Sun. Selected option for alternate dates and back in the queue for the queue. Forget it.
How do you not see much wrong, when thousands of people are disappointed
and
"Ticketmaster Oasis total shambles"
Is a top news story on news sites today
The system is not working.
There's posters here that paid it. One of my friends paid it. All mugs.
There'll be plenty of tickets available closer to the gig,especially if more dates are added.
Whos willing to pay it though.Everyone I know said that they wouldn't pay 400 euro for a ticket.
The mass of people wouldn't be willing to pay it.
People at the extreme end, millionaires, wealthy sportsplayers etc they would be willing to pay 400 euro for a ticket.
But there should be more cheaper tickets for the masses
250 Disabled seats in Croke Park
- however unlike GAA matches for Gigs at least you have to show some verification of disability within a certain timeframe after purchasing the ticket.
So no chancers will end up them, if that gives you any comfort.
Bring back queuing for tickets. Works much better
Do what Garth Brooks done, set price for all tickets and of course added more dates
Only solution is people not to pay it. Which won't happen.
Regulation won't even work as that just drives tout sites and private touting and scamming.
Splitting Ticketmaster monopoly wouldn't work either, it's the band and promoters driving prices
It wouldn't be a Liam and Noel gig if there wasn't complete chaos and we're still 12 months away.
I see a lot of moaning, but does anyone actually have a solution? The value of the tickets are what people are willing to pay. I'm not sure I see much wrong.
I honestly can't blame them. Whip up a bit of hysteria and make millions.
It's the fans willing to pay extortionate money and having ridiculous FOMO that are fault. All economic theory based on rational decision making and thats not what I have seen today.
A friend, constantly whining about money has paid almost 2000 for 4 tickets, lifelong megafan to be fair but that's just a bad bad decision. Won't be seen for months now.
Sure why wouldn't be the norm when the market is there for it. There's people, many of them, who have shelledout close to 200 euro for 'regular tickets' and plenty who have gone all in on two and a half times that..these people seemed damned happy to have them too.
A portion will go, take the phones out and share the videos and totally miss the point of being there. There's been a frenzy for these gigs but let's not stop there.
The last few years post COVID (although it was there pre COVID as well, has seen Garth Brooks, Taylor Swift, Coldplay and god knows how many more that I haven't been aware of selling tickets with similar tactics. But people seem to be happy to pay it. More power to them but you aren't gonna change the companies behaviour if there's still demand. I know artists need to tour nowadays as apparently there isn't much money in downloads but jaysus the artists I have mentioned above ain't short of coin!
Obligatory back in my day...... delighted to have seen so many good bands back in the nineties and early naughties at prices that weren't extortionate but the market is what it is now. I'll be putting the 1700 bucks that could have been spent on 4 tickets this morning(the only option available to me) onto some smaller, perhaps more local gigs and perhaps stuff like Rockathon mentioned earlier and stick the other grand into the holiday fund.
I think my experiences trying to get Taylor Swift, Coldplay and Oasis tickets has put me right off. I don't think I'll bother when the next big one comes up.
Glad. Ticketmaster are crooks.
No one is forcing them to hold it in Croke Park.
Shameful stuff. Paul Heaton is somewhere shaking his head sadly. Are we ever going to reach a point where we just tell them all to **** off?
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