Oasis Reunion. Its finally happening😱

The commentary today seems to be all about how ticketmaster are screwing people.

Now ticketmaster have a lot to answer for from a technical point of view. Being in queues and getting to the top of the queue and then having it crash, having their servers being unable to cope, that's on them. Do better ticketmaster.

But the underlying anger seems to be about the price, and the random increased prices (this surge pricing). This is for Oasis to own. They would have agreed a price for tickets and would have agreed for the surge pricing too; they elected to make more money knowing that the market would be there. Whether it's right or wrong is another question, but it's up to them to own it.

I've seen a clip loads of times of Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl being amazed thst Madonna was charging like $50 for tickets when they charged something like $15. I'm guessing Dave Grohl today also charges crazy prices (I haven't seen how much Foos charge). They need to make money to survive, but they can decide whether they want to make some money or more money. Which is fine, they're entitled to it. But they should be asked about it.

At the Coldplay gig on Thursday Chris Martin thanked people for coming and acknowledged how much of a pain it can be to get to gig. I don't know how much my ticket was (it was a gift), but I'd imagine they also could have charged less and still made a tidy profit.

Tickets to concerts were distributed much fairer back in the day when queing outside the TM selling agent such as Stephens green shopping centre. Now it's just pot luck. If I log into the portal the exact same time as 1000 other people for example how is it decided that one person is number 1 in the queue and another 1000?

The bit I can't understand is that there are certain people I know and who I see here online who always seem to get tickets. I don't know if there's magic involved, or secret links or a hidden trick to do it, but some people seem to be lucky.

The 2 times I've tried to get tickets for a big gig (today and Coldplay) I was in the 100,000s in queues to gave up immediately. I don't know if there's an obvious way to improve the odds other than presale codes or something else?

I'm amazed with all the Ticketmaster supporters on here.

Are you all right in the head?

I'm one of them people

I always get a ticket to a gig I want tickets for I'm known for it ha

Not always first time though either on toutles or through luck on late TM releases

I didn't get all the tickets I wanted today but I got some and maybe closer I'll get croke park tickets too

I could have paid the high price but chose nro to, I don't blame others for choosing to pay it

I left for a few hours and there's been a million posts, most of them upset with each other, don't be upset with your fellow fans it's a waste

It's mad after the shambles today.

What posters are "supporting" ticketmaster and how exactly are they doing it?

The ones who've bought tickets………the only people on here who've supported ticketmaster in any meaningful way……..?

Which brings me back to my original point. Oasis set the prices but a lot of people here seem to be blaming everyone except the band themselves for the pricing.

I would expect that the band themselves would have had nothing to do with pricing, it would have been their management that would have taken care of all that.

Do we seriously think Noel is being sat down and asked "there's standard tickets but we've these special extiornate market value tickets that we'll screw everyone on, we need you to approve though and sign here".

I've no doubt this is a cash in for Noel (less so Liam who has much less rights in the brand), but seriously? They're, by and large, getting given an overall contracted fee for all the gigs

The promoter is MCD. Owned by LiveNation. Who also owns Ticketmaster. Id imagine the premium price idea is LiveNations somehow

Aside from LiveNation being bastards, there's a serious amount of crying about pricing and availability. This is not the GAA, they don't have a responsibility to grow soft rock amongst the grassroots. If you don't like the price, you can choose to abstain. Plenty clearly did think the price was reasonable, hence the scarcity, and the main reason you couldn't get tickets