Oasis Reunion. Its finally happening😱

People dont know something until they find out about it. Something being around for a long time is irrelevant.

Its irrelevant if people knew or didn't know about dynamic pricing before joining the TM queue? Err... Ok

I don't see what the problem is. They knew about it before they decided to buy tickets. There was a big i next to the ticket type which explained what the tickets were and how prices were set. Did you expect ticketmaster to send a letter to everyones house before tickets went on sale or put an ad on RTE to explain it? Where did you expect them to find out if not on the website during the purchase process? It was crystal clear once you got to the ticket selection page what they were.

They probably didn't know about 10% service charges or delivery fees before joining the queue either. Is that a problem?

people paying different prices for sold out shows in same areas is nothing new. It was just previously that touts got the difference now it’s the artist. Some seated beside you at all ireland could of got it for cost whilst you paid 300

I competely agree with you that a lot of people wouldn't have been aware of it.

But they were made aware of it when they got to the ticket selection page. I'm not trying to be daft, I'm genuinely asking where else could someone logically be made aware of it - other than when they're going through the process.

Nobody was sold a ticket and found out later that it was actually a dynamically priced ticket. It was labelled very very clearly as such at the selection page so unless someone didn't bother to read the information on the ticket selection page, they'd have been made aware of it BEFORE they purchased it.

Good call, some of the replies have been pretty daft and it's surprisingly how many people seem to be defending the dynamic pricing nonsense.

Explaining dynamic pricing is not the same as defending it.

its deliberately vaguely explained in order to cause confusion, but is sufficient for legal cover, but its gotta stop now, you d have to wonder how many more events will have to occur before regulatory bodies truly step in, im not holding my breath!

Regulatory bodies won't step in because it's not a regulated activity. It never will be.

People are free to not buy the tickets.

The sheer relief at knowing with certainty that nobody I like is anywhere close to popular enough to be involved in this sort of **** show is priceless. Priceless I tell you.

There only needed to be 1 €86.50 ticket available. That’s the reality. The translation of Dynamic Pricing is “Touts were making money on tickets. We’ve lobbied to outlaw that so now we can fúck punters over instead. While a tout you can haggle with or walk away, we’ll stick you in a queue, feed you no meaningful information then quote you an over inflated price, give you a small time window to decide and pressurise you as much as possible. It’s all legal. We’re brilliant!”

Im not sure where to go with that from a debate standpoint.

There's nothing wrong with it but it should be done away with?

It's like when someone starts an answer to a question with "yes and no".

Christ, this thread reads like Oasis were the pioneers of dynamic pricing in some sort of unique collaboration with Ticketmaster.

May I present Bruce Springsteen..

“What I do is a very simple thing. I tell my guys, ‘Go out and see what everybody else is doing. Let’s charge a little less.’ That’s generally the directions,” he shared. “They go out and set it up. For the past 49 years or however long we’ve been playing, we’ve pretty much been out there under market value. I’ve enjoyed that. It’s been great for the fans.”

He added, “This time I told them, ‘Hey, we’re 73 years old. The guys are there. I want to do what everybody else is doing, my peers.’ So that’s what happened."

The problem is you can't take on Ticketmaster.. plenty have tried and failed.

LiveNation owns loads of venues.. where do you propose bands play in the case of boycotting?

Regulatory bodies are formed to deal with situations just like this, usually because people complain about bad business practices.

Accepting a bad status quo shouldn't be the only approach to a bad situation.

Just happened on a live Oasis gig from '95 or '96, I think, from somewhere in Sweden, being broadcast in full right now on RTE radio 1 ... have to say, Liam sounds absolutely brilliant alongside a wall of guitar sound. All the band on ultra top form, worth a listen back.

No one is forced into buying anything. This is the main point.....

Turns out the gig was from '94 just after DM released. Liam sounded quite polite between songs.

On your last line, that certainly wasn't the case on Friday night anyway. There were 2 teenage girls next to us alright, but we made a point of it at the time that there were a lot less people under say 20 years old than we thought there'd be.

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https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0901/1467815-oasis-tickets/

I was one of the lucky ones to get tickets in the presale on Friday night. I actually bought them while walking into Croke Park to see Coldplay. €136.75 each for the Upper Cusack back toward the Davin so a good bit back from the stage. But I'm happy out with it and realise I was one of the very fortunate ones.

I'm just catching up on this thread now and I hadn't realised about the dynamic / platinum tickets or whatever they're calling them. That's very disappointing and I'd hate for that to become the norm. Having one fan standing next to another having paid multiple times the cost of the same ticket is wrong in my opinion. If the band / promotor have a number that they aim to make €x in ticket sales per concert, I'd prefer they increased all tickets by €20 or whatever (even if it would have cost me extra this time) rather than the way it was done. Hopefully there'll be extra dates added, although I wouldn't blame anyone for staying away after how these 2 dates were handled.