Oasis Reunion. Its finally happening😱

Question:

Were tickets for the gig advertised at a certain price, and then when customers arrived at the point of purchase/ payment, they were asked for a higher price than advertised?

If this is, indeed, the case, then we can expect to see the Advertising Watchdogs in both the UK and Ireland push for a change in legislation to address the issue. I imagine this will be the last year we see the practice and I'm sure Live Nation will kick and scream about it, with their usual overly-convoluted commercial-heavy prose attempting to justify it's " fairness".

When you begin to see government ministers on both sides of the pond making this a political issue, it will be a case of " who blinks first".

I think the only real solution to this, whereby customers are upset at the long queue only to not get tickets at the 'advertised' pricing and the company (Ticketmaster and Oasis want to and should be allowed to maximise their revenue) is to have a pre-biding.

Rather than set a price, Ticketmaster gives a range. And each account (customer) selects the highest price they are prepared to pay.

<100, <200, <500, 1000 etc.

If enough people select 1000 per ticket, all tickets are offered at that price range. Unfortunately, those only wanting to pay 100 are priced out, but at least they know that and don't waste their time queueing.

What is being done now is to lure the customer is with the hope of a 150 ticket, then after waiting 5/6 hours, faced with a 500 ticket or no ticket at all Ticketmaster know that a sizeable amount of people will opt to buy the ticket. People can point out that people should have spending control etc, but this system is designed specifically to override that control on the basis of sunk cost and FOMO.

Make it so that the emotion of taken out of it and those that can/want to pay do and those that can't don't. Yes, its crap that people are priced out, but people are priced out of lots of things and that is just life, and capitalism.

I get ya.

Using my simple numbers above, all standing tickets would have been set at €285, and all seating would have had to be €345

The problem for the bands then is the psychological effect. Lots of people would have said no, based on the transparent price, and perhaps the gig doesnt sell out.

The way it's done, maximises the chance to seel out a concert for a band.

The only way it changes, is if gigs don't sell out.

And as we can all see from AC/DC, Oasis and Taylor Swift, the current approach works for them

Id love to know what the total ticket haul was in the end :)

Better than being behind one Ash!

But the old school touts outside the ground weren't selling the volume of tickets at inflated prices that TM are?

Touting was a minor issue that has been nuked by the corporates, with the happy coincidence that they are creaming it themselves now.

They got rid of the big bad touts in their overcoats, we should be so grateful eh!!

anyone can rent the 3 arena. Board members could chip together if they wanted to rent it.
Mcd have not used vicar st or aiken has not olympia/ academy venues which are run/ operated by mcd.
Oasis may have asked for some or all of their guarantee fee to be paid over. That’s for promoter to pay without touching ticket revenue . Promoter does not have any access to that 33m and won’t be paid any monies till a week after the shows occur.
All monies required to be paid to put on the shows are liability of mcd.

I for one amn't saying these practices are correct and proper but greed has been around since the dawn of time.

In this case of this type of thing: if you don't like these practices then don't engage with them. It's pretty straight forward not to engage with them.

Some people seem to have lost all sense of individual responsibility and even more seem to be easily whipped up into a frenzy over something as non life and death as this!

It's basically the well off just cornering off another piece of life for themselves.

"Just don't buy it if you can't afford a luxury item" is a lovely code to live by for the people who can afford it. Sure why not just make all luxury items the preserve of the rich and happy keep our poor mouths shut about the situation too.

its not a discount, such practices are clearly gouging, to pit humans against other humans, the whole process is designed to manipulate basic, fundamental and critical emotional needs and wants, art is in fact one of the most critical of human needs, this is why we form deep bonds with our favorite acts, now we have entities simply trying to play on these critical needs, and extract as much from the process, so that they accumulate more and more. there was once a feeling of mutual benefit, these entities made some money from the process, and fans got to see their favorite acts, but now the tides are turning, most fans are now simply getting fcuked, and they know it!

its actually not a luxury good, humans have always had a very close connection with art, including and in particular with music, this goes all the way back to the cave…

…the difference now is, we ve commodified the whole process, leading to hyper monopolisation of the whole industry, most artists are making a grand total of fcuk all from this process, only major acts cleaning up, winners taking all…..

…if people want to keep seeing more and more new acts being formed, this approach needs to change as young acts generally cant make any money from it…

….a member from one of my own favorite bands recently admitted, hes now a glorified t-shirt sales guy, as this is truly how he makes money now, after 40 years of playing professionally, somethings not right there! he is regularly asked by younger musicians, how to make a living from music, he has no advice for them, only, maybe do something else!

…the whole process is fcuked!

Sorry, but seeing Oasis Live isn't on the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Time for some perspective.