Oasis ticket worth scandal after ‘fleeced’ followers pay greater than double

MPS have criticised sellers over the Oasis ticket price scandal that led to some fans paying more than double the advertised cost.

David Baines accused official sites such as Ticketmaster of “fleecing fans” after they queued online for hours on Saturday only to be told “dynamic pricing” meant they had to pay £355 or more for tickets originally listed at £158.

Tickets went on sale at 9am and were expected to be snapped up in minutes, but technical issues also meant that fans were kicked off booking websites after getting finally through and having to start the whole process again.

One user on X/ Twitter, Nicky B, said: “Ticketmaster are absolute jokers. Bumped standing tickets for Cardiff Oasis gig to £356! Even they are sold out and only ones I can add to basket after 3 hours of queuing is nearly £1k for 2.”

Just after 7pm, Oasis and Ticketmaster finally announced that tickets had sold out. Meanwhile, ticket resale websites yesterday were asking between £537 to as much as £14,104.

The legendary Britpop band announced they would play 17 gigs across the UK and Ireland next July and August, 16 years after they broke up following a backstage brawl at Paris’s Rock en Seine festival back in 2009.

About 1.4 million tickets were sold for the shows in Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin.

Mr Baines, Labour MP for St Helens North took to X to complain. He wrote: “After rightly criticising those who got presale tickets and then immediately tried to resell them for huge profits, it’s shocking to hear that Ticketmaster UK are now using ‘dynamic pricing’ to fleece fans and rake in the cash.”

Cabinet minister Lucy Powell said she was “not sure how totally transparent” the pricing was after managing to bag herself two tickets for £350 each. Asked about dynamic pricing by BBC Radio 5 Live, she said: “I don’t particularly like it, I’m sure many people don’t.”

Irish MEP Regina Doherty has called for an investigation into the pricing structure for tickets sold for the two shows at Croke Park, Dublin.

Ticketmaster says the extra money created by dynamic pricing will go to the band, which railed against people trying to make money on the black market, selling tickets yet seemingly condoned the in demand pricing.

Dan Johnston bought four tickets at £350 each. He said: “If a company says a ticket will be £151 and that these cannot be sold for anything more than face value or the tickets will be cancelled. How can they then justify themselves upping the price £200 extra before they even sell out of the tickets?

“Is this profiteering?”