Oasis Reunion. Its finally happening😱

Nobody HAS to buy anything.

If the buyer is in a position where they feel they HAVE to buy something at the price stated despite that price being a multiple of hundreds of Euro then that really is on the buyer……….

There's no doubt that there a shed load of marketing tactics being deployed to maximise the income for the artist and all involved, but marketers try to manipulate us all the time. Just say no.

Plenty people said no to 415 euro standing tickets……it's a personal choice.

Ide say some people here quietly love dynamic pricing because it keeps the tickets out of the hands of the plebs. More tickets to go round for the rich.

That was me. Full on excited all week and put 1000 into revolut in order to buy 4 tickets. That was my limit and the entirety of my rainy day fund. I’d be getting the money back for 2 of the tickets. Those people were doing the same.

Got into the buy tickets section about 3/4pm. I can’t even remember the location. There were plenty of tickets available still but at ludacris prices. I couldn’t justify spending my entire rainy day fund on just 2 tickets. I’ve a feeling there were many people who were in the exact same position as me and the tickets sold to those who haven’t got to worry about money.

I’m not bothering trying again if more dates are released. Liam & Noel deserve the online backlash that they’re getting.

I dont know. I cant see how you can price control entertainment tickets. Its not like they are essential to keeping you alive. And price controls have totally destroyed other things, like the rental market.

If I had room for 50 people to watch me sing and 100 people wanted to watch me, id let in the people who paid me the most money and wouldnt care where the other 50 went.

Now the most money offered to see me sing would probably be negative.

Dublin tickets were gotten via presale on Friday night

London gig were purchased around 10:50 on Saturday morning

The most popular musicians charge more for their concerts. This should come as no surprise because like the rest of use they are human and driven by money. There is nothing to justify because it doesn’t need justifying.

I can’t claim to understand why a multimillionaire with enough to money to last well after he’s gone wants another million but that is their right if they wish.

You don't have to buy a ticket - it is a choice - is a simple fact.

I don't see what other point there is on this particular issue - same with your shop.

A few million people bought tickets for these gigs (UK and Ireland) - and there were probably 2 or 3 times that in queues to buy tickets for these gigs. Lets say you didn't have dynamic pricing - at what point do you think that market of 5 million or so people would have decided "Enough is enough"

Yeah, this would be preferable to wasting hours in a queue alright - messages advising what price points remained etc - had I known earlier that the lowest priced tickets still left while I was 10K in the queue were now 415 euro each, I would have exited there.

I'd think though that their back end infrastructure would need to be scaled appropriately to handle that type of thing - it could barely handly what was significant demand on it over the weekend in fairess.

This thread is so depressing. Those of you defending this need to give your head a wobble.

There is zero justification for charging more on Saturday morning for standing tickets than what was paid on the presale on Friday night. Zero.

There's a bit of misconception that this was 'surge' pricing similar to say Uber, or that the prices went up once demand was high

There was a set amount of tickets and the vast majority went on sale at regular prices. There's a small portion set aside as "platinum" ticket options, which usually includes some sort of crap like merchandise or a pre-party. Same for Coldplay, Taylor Swift etc. In this case LiveNation were just being lazy and added an option with no additional crap, which is what's getting people's backs up. They still make up a small percentage of overall tickets

There was a presale the night before where these were available alongside the regular tickets, and obviously people only bought the regular prices ones. Same the following morning when there was 700k in the queue, the first in bought all the regular tickets immediately. So then when the vast majority of people got in, there was only this segment of tickets left, which most obviously baulked at buying

Not defending the practice but it wasn't something decided on the fly. Fairly sure it's not the band deciding it either, they're given a set percentage of revenue from the promoter (and were clearly happy to milk it), and the promoter monitizes as it best sees fit. In this instance the promoter (MCD) and the ticket supplier are one and the same, LiveNation

I think what people want is for a standing ticket to cost the same for everyone.

You know the way concerts were done since the dawn of concerts.

Yes we know "it's their right" and "I don't have to buy" that doesn't mean I dont get to call Oasis greedy €unts for allowing it. They are helping ruin the industry that created them as far as I'm concerned.