Oasis Reunion. Its finally happening😱

Not true .

Some big bands treat their fans with respect and refuse to engage with dynamic ticket pricing by the likes of LiveNation.

Like the Cure who famously threatened to cancel their US gigs on their sold out Lost World tour if fans were not refunded their money and tickets sold at the reasonable prices they themselves stipulated . stipulated

We paid 87 for standing tickets in 3Arena on this tour and they played a wonderful setlist for nearly 3 hours . Merchandise was reasonable too .

People have choices about how much they spend on artists and gigs and if you choose to pay the inflated prices like TS , Coldplay Oasis et al are asking , you are choosing to pay gougers and to increase prices exponentially for no reason except to fuel the greed of those asking for these prices.

This money does nothing to help the industry but soaks up any spare money that might be spent on those going to smaller up and coming bands who are keeping the smaller venues going . Without these smaller gigs those venues will and are closing (UK has seen many close their doors recently and directly attribute it to big stadium concerts )

I said earlier in the thread I saw Noel play an excellent 2.5 hour set in Kilmainham just a year ago for 50 odd euro presale .

People are just pure nuts paying prices like mentioned on this thread or have more money than sense

or than they need .

Justifying it by saying " once in a lifetime " or" the kids made me do it " is just an excuse .

They will play again if they are back together now , the greed factor will ensure that , and the kids don't have to have unreasonable sums spent on them to enjoy a day out .

Those same kids won't be happy when dynamic pricing has them priced out of the concert going market as is happening now . Because people just have to have those tickets ..at any price !

They will keep charging higher and higher prices if they think people will pay it .

It is an industry increasingly populated by greedy gougers who are more interested in their image and how big a venue they can fill than the music and those paying the high prices are some genuine fans squeezed by all of this .

But the prices aren't a secret.

When you get to the ticket selection page they're laid out in front of you. Nobody is pressing purchase on a ticket and finding out they've been charged more than they thought.

You get to the ticket selection page and see a list of tickets and prices as they are there and then. You find no tickets for €150 as they're all gone. You find there are "in-demand" tickets there for €300 and you add them to your basket. That's the price. You can then make an informed decision. Plenty of people on this thread saw that inflated price and walked away.

And anyway, if Ticketmaster advertised dynamic seats as "€200-€500 (subject to demand)", people would still be moaning.

I got a ticket at 8.42am on Saturday and it wasn't a dynamically priced ticket.

I'd like to see that information too but I'm only a ticket purchaser, I've no rights or entitlement to it from a private company. And just because I might feel screwed over, doesn't mean I suddenly have a right to see it. Concerts are not a public service.

Haven’t they said from the start, that they wanted to be rich and commercially successful?

Best way to get rich is making as much money off your fans as possible.

Do we assume no more Irish concerts or are they just planning it out behind the scenes?

Micheal Healy Rae was on Newstalk earlier defending Live Nation - when asked if they have a monopoly he said maybe it’s because they are doing such a good job…utter joke.

What else would you expect from that p***k

Not too far away from the opinions of some on this forum too all said.

someone should let @The Golden Miller know there is a whole entire genre of rock, over 50 years old called “Heavy Metal” - far louder and heavier than the 60s/70s influenced radio pop rock of Oasis -

so much so the big names of Heavy Metal would laugh at Oasis being described as “heavy”.

Equslly, why wouldn’t you be entitled to it? If i wasn’t to buy a phone I can clearly see various price levels based on functionality or memory etc. Should be the same with an event. If various ticket categories are on sale there should be a price published for each category. For one it helps me plan my expenditure and allows me as a consumer to decide my maximum spend, my requirement and a fallback requirement if the ticket I want isn’t available. Going back to the phone example, if I have to go to a shop to find out the price it’s one thing but it might also not be clear where the extra value lies for my extra expenditure. The one thing about a phone however is they’re around for a year. Once I’ve visited a shop I can get a feel for the price list and have ample time to then make up my mind. In arms case, I have maybe 7 minutes on learning the price of the ticket in order to make up my mind. So up front publication is consumer friendly. It’s about being above board.

I did x2 €176.75

Christ, that’d be enough to make you consider putting your tickets up for resale.

Wolfe tones as support would make sense - they are the Oasis of Irish rebel songs in terms of popularity.

Huge cross over of fans - often you will hear a guy at a party doing wonder wall then get out yiz Black and Tans.

Can’t say I’ve been to such parties 🤪

Except on aer lingus the price is visible immediately, not after a 2 hour queue when you then have a very limited time to make a decision.

Never realised there were so many 'gullibles' in our little country.

If people are gullible enough and so easily led by fake hype then ,hey, its their problem.

I appreciate that it would be beneficial for consumers were TM to publish the prices prior to a consumer getting in an online queue for tickets etc, however the consumer is aware of the price they are paying for a ticket under the system used at the weekend - it's not "hidden" from the consumer. They are told what's left for their position in the queue and the price of it - it's up to the consumer to decide whether to pay it or not.

Now if someone told me prior to getting up at 7:00 on Satudarday that there were X tickets available for 86 euro, Y tickets available for 150 euro, Z tickets available for 400 euro then some additional price points for various VIP packages, would I have gotten up and joined the queue anyway - probably.

Also, publishing the prices prior to going on sale isn't going to change the fact that there were at most 163,000 tickets on sale for Croker and approx 500,000 or more tickets to meet demand.

You'd still have acres of people annoyed cos they didn't get tickets.

How you cannot see the issues here baffles me. Perhaps you don’t wish to.

Are Lingus aren’t going to have a huge surge of people arriving at there site, I’ll give you that however that could be mitigated by publishing of prices the day before for instance or a current pricing ticker for the benefit of those in the queue. Whatever way it’s done is a v lack of infrastructure and public service.

With Aer Lingus I see the price points relatively quickly and can decide at my leisure what price point suits me. I can also go back after purchase and skter my booking if I so wish. Let’s compare with TM where you are shoved onto a queue and given only a number. You’re there for hours as was the case Saturday. No further information is provided. Your number ticks down. Perhaps you’ll get kicked off, perhaps you don’t. Finally you’re presented with ticket prices far in excess of reasonable expectations. You’ve already invested hours in this process. It promotes panic buying but, just in case it isn’t enough, a timer starts amping up the pressure and your time window is closing. If you do purchase, god help you if you change your mind with a ‘generous’ 24 hour cooling off period with no great prices to get your money back in place.

Complaining about people whinging about the website is moot. Plenty of other organisations deal with high traffic. You don’t see Amazon making you queue to get in. Surges are the nature of TMs business and it’s not that they can’t cope, it’s that they don’t want to because queues promote pressure purchasing. Plenty of cloud based solutions exist to deal with surging. It’s no argument.

NopenopenopenopeNOPE!!!!!!!

It really isn't "whinging", and even when flights are in high demand you can see immediately what the price is.

buy a phone I can clearly see various price levels 

A phone is not a finite commodity. Samsung/Apple/whoever will make as many phones as the market demands and so anyone can buy one at the advertised price.

On the other hand, a concert ticket is extremely finite. When demand massively outstrips supply, there’s no way to meet the demand.

Anyone who has ever bought a house has experienced dynamic pricing. Estate agent puts it up for 500k, house sells for 450 or 550. Book a flight to Edinburgh for a random Tuesday in January then book one for the Friday of the Six Nations weekend. A hotel in Portlaoise in January versus the Saturday night of Electric Picnic… these are far more relevant comparisons for concert tickets. Dynamic pricing is everywhere, it isn’t new, it’s basic free market economics. We’re just not used to it for concerts, that’s the only difference.

If people panic buy just because there’s a timer in the corner of the screen, then that’s on them. Anyone I know who got the option for 400 euro tickets declined it.