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Fifty thousand Oasis resale tickets cancelled

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  • EssexphilEssexphil Member Posts: 8,845
    Going to swim against the tide here. I fundamentally disagree with these sorts of stories.

    If someone buys something, it is theirs. To do with as they please. So-if someone buys Oasis tickets, and wants to resell them, that should be up to them.

    This isn't about protecting the public. It is just Ticketmaster seeking to ensure that any profit is theirs. Rather than the buyer.

    They try and dress it up as something other than a cash grab by Ticketmaster. This is a Company that operates variable pricing-in simple terms, where Demand exceeds Supply they will jack the price up. Retrospectively.

    They don't stop you reselling tickets. Just that the resale must be done via their partner, Twickets. To ensure that they get a cut of both sale and resale.

    It's about control. Pretending to be about touting. They are not just chasing the touts. They are after the person who is seeking to resell 2 tickets.
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 171,025
    edited October 29



    There seems to be an agenda here, which ignores the fact that "dynamic pricing" is everywhere, & imo, a perfectly reasonable policy. Remember, dynamic pricing cuts BOTH ways.

    If you've ever booked an overseas holiday, a Hotel room, or a 'plane ticket, you've been subject to dynamic pricing. Even your electricity has dynamic pricing - you can get cheaper 'leccy "off-peak". ALL Hotels use dynamic pricing, & why not. Don't like it? Stay somewhere else.

    And let's be fair, a ticket to an Oasis gig - or any other so-called pop-star" - is not exactly one of life's necessities, is it? Missing an Oasis gig because of ticket prices is hardly a tragedy.
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  • rabdenirorabdeniro Member Posts: 4,459
    It does cut both ways but usually the buisness is the winner, ah have seen where people book a hotel 6 or so months in advance to suddenly get their room cancelled when some superstar has announced a tour, they then say you can rebook it but it will be 10 x the original price, it's a ridiculous practice.
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  • EnutEnut Member Posts: 3,564
    I was priced out of Oasis tickets quite early on when I realised that they wanted ME to pay THEM to go to the gig. I think I would have accepted £1,000 to endure his droning for a couple of hours. As it is I'll pay nothing and miss it, quite happy with that deal to be fair.
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  • TheEdge949TheEdge949 Member Posts: 5,713
    i remember an amusing incident from way back when I took my first missus to see Michael Jackson on his BAD tour at Wembley late 80's

    Tickets had cost about £25 but were going for crazy money outside the venue with the Police actively running the touts off.

    One guy simply opened a case of bottled water and started hawking it at £60 a bottle with a free concert ticket thrown in with every bottle sold. By the time the Police had decided what regulations he was breaking, he'd sold the lot and bounced away as happy as pig in Chardonnay.
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