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✌
Surely it's clear to see that Ticket master are basically legalised Ticket touts at this stage?
€419 for a standing Ticket, which was meant to be 86.50 to begin with.
Officially sold out.
Yes that seems similar, I thought maybe we were hit harder with higher prices
Anyone know most expensive price paid here and in UK for a ticket?
When were standing tickets supposed to be 86.50?
The standing tickets were €167.50. It said tickets from €86.50 on MCD but nothing about standing. Presumably, that was a handful of restricted view seats.
Aye, absolute shower, just parked up and all. Oh well
Tv ad on now advertising tickets starting from 86 euro ,anyone got one of these?
I got one there in corner of davin and cusack and hogan upper row v-z at least
Tickets were "from 86.50", standing tickets were never explicitly advertised at that price.
How did ticketmaster get such power.
I can't think of any other business, where one company has such extreme sole power.
Why don't ticketmaster have any competitors at their level?
I already explained it to you a few pages back why they have no competition.
Is there anything extra with an in-demand standing ticket?
Maybe we could get a separate discussion thread going about Ticketmaster and leave this one to discussion about the actual topic of the Oasis reunion/tour.
[ Runs, hides ]
Price.
is that realy sold out…or drip feeding 500 euro tickets to the market.
That's a cartel arrangement then.
Monopoly's have been routinely broken up in modern history, today is just a reminder of how badly this particular situation needs to be addressed.
Why would they need to, there was no issue selling them today.
I've no idea exactly how TM's business plan works but I'd imagine it's similar to PayPal, it facilitates financial transactions (in this case tickets) and charges a commission.
It's in their interest to get the maximum possible per ticket as that means they get a higher commission.
Pretty sure the platinum seats today were 450 and TM tag on another 50 odd euro commission.
Handy money
Hi i know you explained that livenation own ticketmaster and mcd, and livenation also conytol certain venues.
So they have a lot of power.
But surely they shouldn't be able to control the entire market. Thats a ticket dictatorship.
Surely there should be people tegulating them for fairness.
The large company that i work for gets checked all the time by external authorities, to make sure that we are doing fair practices for consumers.
Yep. And remember who their primary customer is - the artist. They don't work for the concert-goer, they work for the artist.
I've heard a few people here say that this is touting etc and see a few politicians gaining some brownie points by saying Ticketmaster should be investigated etc.
But this really is like the airlines. Nobody HAS to buy an Oasis ticket. The reason they are so dear is because so many people are looking to buy them, you can see it on here even. The only way you reduce ticket prices is by reducing demand. Otherwise you end up with price controls(which for something like this would be interesting from a legal perspective) and at the end of the day.....if you do such a thing then you make the country it happens in less enticing for artists to visit in the first instance(obviously)
Perhaps you could question Ticketmaster a monopolistic position, but let's all remember what can happen when you go legislating to ensure fairer competition in a market.
Does you company get told how to set their fees/product prices because it would be highly unlikely.
I just assumed the cheapest tickets available would be standing. They usually are.
We hear all the guff about how evil ticket touts are, yet the sellers of the tickets are basically no better.
Do the government care? Not a jot.
cheapest should be the back of the davitt stand.
For Coldplay, the cheapest at €67 were at the very top of the Davin upper stand.
how come when tickets were printed in paper and announced at a particular price and you queued up over night for the big gigs you payed the advertised price but now you don’t. What’s changed? As I said earlier in the thread if the tickets went up pre advertised at 450 quid how many nights would then sell out? It’s dodgy at best.
To be fair, I'd reckon as an 'experience' the Coldplay gigs are tens of times better than Oasis gigs, unless they completely up their game. I thought the Coldplay tickets were mental money last year. I was badly wrong.
What's changed? Is that a serious question?
Could it be one for the EU to look at? I know there was a bill in the DÃ il a while back proposed by Noel Rock but he wasn't re-elected, not sure what happened to it or if it would have helped today.
Why is it accepted that prices just change on a whim now when they didn’t before. Obviously the method of delivery has changed
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