Oasis followers name for Viagogo BOYCOTT as grasping resellers flog tickets

Oasis fans call for the boycott of Viagogo as greedy resellers try to flog reunion tour tickets for ‘the price of a house’.

The ticket resale website has seen people trying to flog tickets for as much as £7000  just to see the Britpop band perform next summer. 

Chaos has broken out this morning as fans struggling to get tickets to the 17 dates next year, with tech issues prevailing across booking sites. 

One fan wrote on X: ‘They’re probably on #Viagogo already. You’ll have to sell your house.’

Oasis told fans on Saturday to only buy tickets from the official websites amid reselling websites charging inflated prices for the Manchester rockers’ gigs.

The band said on X: ‘Please note, Oasis Live ’25 tickets can only be resold at face value via @Ticketmaster and @Twickets!

‘Tickets appearing on other secondary ticketing sites are either counterfeit or will be cancelled by the promoters.’

On Friday evening the band issued a warning after unofficial reselling websites listed tickets obtained in the pre-sale ballot for thousands of pounds.

A post to the band’s X page said: ‘We have noticed people attempting to sell tickets on the secondary market since the start of the pre-sale.

‘Please note, tickets can ONLY be resold, at face value, via @Ticketmaster and @Twickets.

‘Tickets sold in breach of the terms and conditions will be cancelled by the promoters.’

Tickets are officially being sold via Ticketmaster, GigsAndTours, and See Tickets, however, the band’s reunion concert tickets have also been relisted on ticket exchange and reselling websites for thousands of pounds.

On Friday evening, Oasis tickets for Wembley Stadium were listed on Viagogo for up to £5,909 while some tickets at the London venue, listed under ‘Hospitality Club’, were on sale for £10,578 on StubHub.

The StubHub website says all Oasis tickets ‘come with our FanProtect 100% guarantee for secure purchasing.’

Speaking to MailOnline, Adam Webb of FanFair Alliance – a group opposing ‘industrial scale’ secondary ticketing -said: ‘Within 20 minutes of tonight’s Oasis pre-sale, we found individual touts listing up to 80 tickets each on viagogo – hoping to make eye-watering profits of almost £200,000.

‘This is money being gouged from fans, syphoned away from the UK economy, and washed through the coffers of overseas websites.

‘This kind of consumer exploitation can only be reigned in by the Government. The only solution is to outlaw resale of tickets for profit.’

Tickets on Stubhub are being sold for more than £6,300 – while others on Viagogo appear to be up for grabs thousands of pounds.

One angry fan, Dean Smith, raged at ‘low lives’ who are selling them for stupid prices.

Another, Daire Tully, added: ‘Was always going to happen. Missed out on the presale. 

‘Heartbreaking to see Oasis tickets being sold at multiples of the face value before they’ve even gone on general sale.’ 

Prices for a seat to watch the band at London’s Wembley Stadium begin at £74.25, with the most expensive ticket a £506.25 pre-show party, exhibition and seated package.

The cheapest seats are Cardiff’s Principality Stadium shows, which will set you back £73, and Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium at £74, according to Manchester-based promoter SJM Concerts, which runs the website Gigs And Tours.

Standing tickets at Wembley will cost fans £151.25, with the same tickets in Cardiff and Edinburgh slightly cheaper at £150 and £151 respectively.

In the band’s home city of Manchester, tickets start from £148.50, with only standing available alongside a number of hospitality and luxury packages.

Before the announcement for the UK shows, Irish promoter MCD said on its website that the price of both of the two Croke Park gigs in Dublin will start at 86.50 euros (£72.75) without booking fees.

The Gallaghers announced on Tuesday that they had put their acrimonious split behind them, confirming the band’s long-awaited reunion by saying: ‘The great wait is over.’