Can you believe a massive sale on a highly in-demand concert went smoothly on Ticketmaster? No? Because it didn’t. Tickets for the Oasis reunion tour in the UK and Ireland went on sale on Saturday, and it was an absolute mess. Rolling Stone reports that over 1 million people joined the queue to get tickets, and many were met with issues. Some people were accused of being bots and got kicked out of the queue; others made it through but had their purchases suspended. Ticketmaster claims that a limited number of tickets are still available despite fans still having problems completing their purchase. If there isn’t any more salt to be added to the wound, the same standing room only tickets that were once £150 got bumped up to £350+ through dynamic pricing— a feature where if a concert grows in demand, so does the price of tickets. They renamed them “in-demand standing tickets,” but like children stacked on each other in a trench coat, the disguise did not work.
Contingency plan in place for if I don't get Oasis tickets after enduring Ticketmaster's terrible queue system #Oasis25 #OasisDublin pic.twitter.com/tORUwAFDC5
— Adam (@GilroysWorld) August 31, 2024
If you’re willing to bite the bullet and buy resell, well, you might not have any luck. Oasis and Ticketmaster UK both reiterated that any tickets sold on third-party resale sites will be “cancelled by the promoters”; the only valid resale tickets will be from Ticketmaster or Twickets and are only sold at face value. But how could you resell tickets you never got in the first place?
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