Calls for investigation into Ticketmaster pricing after Irish Oasis fans left infuriated by €415 standing tickets
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/calls-for-investigation-into-ticketmaster-pricing-after-irish-oasis-fans-left-infuriated-by-415-standing-tickets/a1920402076.html
Posted by Leavser1
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This might get kicked. But truth be told this is just the latest in the absolute shit show that Ticketmaster is.
Every major event the website collapses and reference should be made to electric picnic sales last week.
This happens with most major events on TM. Flurry of complaints, forgotten about by next week, and back to business as usual.
It’ll never change.
€415 for standing tickets in Croke Park is ridiculous.
The US is currently suing Ticketmaster. Something similar needs to happen here. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-live-nation-ticketmaster-monopolizing-markets-across-live-concert
I bought a seated ticket for Pantera on Ticketmaster and had to queue up again to buy a standing ticket. The standing ticket was €225. It’s crazy that Ticketmaster has such a monopoly in relation to concert/live event tickets.
“Tickets from €86.50”
Draft legislation to not allow dynamic pricing for events. If touting is illegal I don’t see why Ticketmaster are essentially allowed to tout tickets themselves.
Make them set the face value early, if they want to set it at 400e from the off let them.away at it
The thing is, while Ticketmaster are the absolute worst, it’s the band that cause this situation. Ticketmasters biggest service is taking the heat for artists in this situation. If Oasis said no gouging, no surge pricing, Ticketmaster would have had to comply. They could also have just used one of the smaller tickets crowds lif they really wanted. Honestly, these gigs are so big they could have commissioned their own ticketing platform. But although Ticketmaster gets a taste, it’s oasis who are probably doubling, tripling or quadrupling their profit on a gig they are definitely doing as a last enormous payday.
Firstly, anyone who paid the 350 for a standing ticket is an idiot.
Secondly, if an in demand ticket is sold for double the normal price, who gets the extra money. Say a 100e ticket is sold for 200, who gets the extra 100 euro, TM or the promlter/band?
Lastly, TM should be made to clearly display their prices. A supermarket can’t sell a pint of milk without displaying the price, yet you queuing for 2 hours, and maybe getting to where you can buy a ticket before the price is visible for the first time is OK?
I’ve just had my account suspended by Ticketmaster because apparently I’m a bot!! WTF
There is loads of tickets on stubhub etc but I saw a post they won’t be allowed and they’ll be cancelled? How is that allowed legally
Lost in the fuss is the fact that face value standing tickets were €176.50. what the absolute fuck.
STOP PAYING. If you’re complaining about the price you just paid for a ticket you only have yourself to blame.
Create as much noise as possible imo.
You’ll get the well akshally pedants on here “well akshally it’s not akshally illegal yunno” and the “look at hotels and flights” thinking their sage like wisdom is lost on everyone else.
As if that covers it. As if nothing can ever change in terms of legislation. As if the hotel industry isn’t burying itself in a world of legal trouble unilaterally cancelling rooms. As if we just have to accept predatory practices and Ticketmaster abusing their monopoly implementing surge pricing.
One good thing about the EU is that they sometimes create excellent consumer protection legislation. They are least think about it. It’s well worth creating a stink here.
For one hours long queues should be regulated out of existence, either they can sell the tickets or they can’t. If they can’t making punters sit around literally all day when it’s a computer and a ballot system could be implemented easily and at no additional cost then queues should be gone.
Ballot the rest of the tickets as soon as demand or your ability to process demand outstrips supply. Would stop surge pricing too.
Ticketmaster have become the touts.
Wait, a monopoly is bad for consumers? Oh my god how did we not forsee that? Shouldn’t there be legislation to prevent monopolies?
Shouldn’t someone look into Ticketmaster and their parent company?
Everyone has known this for years. As someone said pearl jam tried to highlight this with a boycott of TM in the mid 90s. They lost.
Yet their business practices just get worse and worse. And we literally pay the price. But no one who can actually take action against them does a thing.
It’s all orchestrated, you have demand because the band is popular, good start.
Next employ the sunken coat fallacy by making people queue for artificially long times.
Then when they finally get through, give them a crisis by alotting a short window, together with the time you’ve already invested the exorbitant price suddenly is the only path forward.
Profiteering 101, it’s a bad faith transaction from the get go. If we want anything to change we need competition in the ticketing market.
Also let’s not forget the acts themselves are complicit in this and surge pricing is an opt in “feature” and are blatantly ripping you off.
If you paid 400 quid for a ticket that should be €86 you’re a fucking idiot.
If people stopped paying stupid prices….
I’m one of the “idiots” who has fronted up big money to go to this gig. My logic is that I’m simply going to forego 3-4 mediocre nights out in Dublin which I would otherwise forget within a week for one night which I’ll remember for the rest of my life.
Also, I’d have had zero problem with buying a “good value” ticket for the UK, flying over, getting a hotel room and travel in country all for the same amount of total money and no one would be calling me an idiot for doing so.
I won’t comment on wether the band deserve this much money from me, but they provided the soundtrack of my youth and so Im willing to pay for it.
I’m getting the same issue on looking tor tickets to something else. ‘Your Session Has Been Suspended
Something about your browsing behavior or network made us think you were a bot.’
Irish fans were also screwed by having the Dublin gigs on sale an hour before the UK. Lots of British people in the queues
Bring back buying tickets in person! Online bots are too difficult to take down properly.
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£16 to see them in 1996 at the absolute peak of their power. That’s only about €35 now adjusted for inflation. Obviously they were making money from people buying CDs then but even 250 starting price is absolutely insane. No justification whatsoever
Unfortunatly, this will be forgotten in a few weeks. We have had dynamic pricing for hotels, flights, etc for decades. Unfortunatly, it is going nowhere.
Speaking of hotels. It seems we have all forgotten our fury at them for canceling rooms booked on the Oasis concert dates. That might actually be something the goverment would be willing to legislate for.
If i got through and those prices showed up, out the gap fuck that, no way is it worth it.
I just want to understand how it’s possible that 100s of tickets are available on viagogo and stubhub immediately after the event goes live?
Might be treading into some conspiracy stuff here but is it not possible that there is some secret partnership between these touting sites? That aspect needs to be investigated intently.
[I keep thinking about this post from a few months back. ](https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/s/0oWu8pGJyS)
Whine on social media or perhaps direct your concerns to this lot: [The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (ccpc.ie)](https://www.ccpc.ie/)
You can of course do both.
Then don’t go
Class action lawsuit anyone?
dynamic pricing shouldn’t be a thing full stop! it’s called cheating, ticketmaster also resale higher than face value.
Don’t forget the greed of the promoter, MCD and Noel and Liam in all of this.
Ticketmaster don’t set the prices but you can be sure they take a fair chunk of the dynamic pricing model.
MCD will never reveal why Irish tickets went on sale before UK tickets nor will they reveal how the presale works. They should be forced to, the EU can step in here re consumer law and protection.
Nothing will change, this is ireland
I’m very happy I’m more into going to matches and not concerts. 25 – 40quid for a munster ticket and I’m happy out.
Mental prices to be charging to watch 2 lads sing the most basic songs on stage. They’re not exactly gonna be putting on a show like Rammstein did a few weeks back.
A generation of people living at home in their late 20s and 30s, no rent to pay as it’s so high but a healthy disposable income to bid up standing ticket’s for Oasis to 400 euro.