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✌
It shows that there are still loads of people in the queue, but it says that tickets are sold out.
The "tout being cut out" is effectively meaningless when ticketmaster themselves have taken over the roll. In Demand/surge pricing is essentially touting by another name and should be banned. If that means that every ticket is €200 instead of €150 then that's fine. But prices should be up front and fixed.
They're just the only game in town and once they had the market, there was no space for anyone to sell tickets.
It's a lot more complicated than that but put simply, ticketmaster is a live nation company, and live nation also own mcd, and also own some venues and have agreements with others. So they're entrenched everywhere. It would be impossible to compete with them.
Want to use 3Arena? Gotta deal with Live Nation. Wanna deal with Live Nation? Gotta use Ticketmaster.
Want to use MCD... See above.
Etc. Etc.
Did anyone actually get tickets today at face value prices?
Are t they in their 50s? It will probably get them over a few more marriages - they’ll be back in their 70s for more 😀
Personally I am going to Heaton Park and am loving the hate coming my way. I would be the same.
Anyway it's a lovely sunny day. I'm going to have a few drinks to get over my ticket anger!
From the Oasis tweet earlier,
"Tickets appearing on other secondary ticketing sites are either counterfeit or will be cancelled by the promoters."
I hope they carry through with it & if they did would these tickets be resold then legitimately?
Appreciate it, however I've been to tonnes of gigs this summer and you'd actually be surprised how many chancers buy these tickets,
I was at Taylor Swift and two women bought tickets for the wheelchair area because you get the companion / carer ticket for free, to cut a long story short they were half cut by the time she came out, annoyed the shite out of everyone and ended up being put into GA standing , tickets are not verified at all anyone can buy them unfortunately
I agree they shouldn't have a monopoly.
But whether tickets were available from one of 73 vendors, demand would have been the same. It wouldn't have changed anything.
My mrs logged in 7 hrs ago and is still 15k in the queue 🤣
What about people who were in the queue and then got kicked out? That happened to lots of people.
That is not the buyers fault. That is definitely ticketmasters fault.
The technology of the ticketmaster is not fit to cope with hundreds of thousands of people at once. The tech on that site is like something you'd see in 2010
I know. It makes no difference to you having sour grapes. You
re annoyed you didn't get tickets. What exactly do you want to have happened? Either 170,000 people got there ahead of you, or yuopu had the chance to pay €415, like I did, and chose not to buy them. You haven't been done over here!
I’m sure Liam and Noel are doing this for their retirement fund. If so, I’m sure there’ll keep touring until everybody willing to pay to see them has had a chance to
Just looked at Wembley on 26th. 350 pound plus tickets standing left.
it was also a big data harvesting exercise ..wait for the sh*te in your emails in a few weeks and random txts
Yeah. At least a tout is up front about being a scumbag. TM price gouging via dynamic pricing and mandating they’ll cancel any ticket not resold through their resale site is as scumbag as you’ll get.
anyone know how to clear cookies on an iPhone? Not that I think it’ll make a difference but just in case 😂
I had 4 in the cart for Edinburgh £167 each I couldn't pull the trigger I'll have a week in winter sun instead
Women can be bros too
Why do ticketmaster have the total monopoly on ticket sales in Ireland?
That's something I genuinely don't understand.
Id be more pissy about dropping over 2k on tickets then finding out someone else got the same tickets for 700.
You called me "bro" in your previous post
That's why I replied "I'm a woman"
Do you see anybody who got tickets giving out? No, people lost a random drawing and as always ticketmaster gets blamed, meanwhile over a million heads are sitting at home smiling because they did get tickets to one of the shows.
they sold probably well over a million tickets in what, two hours? the system is as good as it can be
yeah …… Enoch Burke wannabe , (joking btw)
Something about this feels so wrong about this. They came out with the “we dislike touts” before the pre-sale. I’d imagine they’ll keep schtum about ticketmaster (&themselves ) ripping everyone a new backside.
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Of course people are pissy. Why wouldn't they be?
Oh my god, not ticketmasters reputation? this happens with every single big outdoor gig, people get pissy because they didn't get a ticket and have to blame someone, and next week when another big band announces a tour, we'll hear the same thing from pissy people.
