Oasis Reunion

euan

Seetickets had premium tickets giving you merchandise and a special wrist band. 

I can imagine Ticketmaster being a massive fuck over though 

guitari

Would seem to be @DefaultM ;
Just got through for tickets at Murrayfield - REAR standing tickets now Platinum at £357 and sitting at back £397 what an absolute scam. Needless to say I'm not prepared to pay that.

JerkMoans

Fuck it. Let’s have a Fretboard Oasis covers night, evening of the first gig  

RocknRollDave

£100, in my opinion, is that absolute outside price a show like this should cost. There will be, no doubt, huge video screens but what other production costs of note will there be for a bunch of guys who just stand there and do their thing?

Not saying one is better than the other, but if I paid through the nose to see Taylor Swift, you can at least see where that money goes.

DefaultM

So people logged on to a queue at 8am thinking tickets were going to be £135 or similar, and then hours later when you get to the front it says now that same ticket is £400 because its in demand? What the fuck?

JerkMoans

Turns out Oasis published ticket prices which put Standing tickets in most of their venues at ~£150. Thats face value. 

 Oasis have allowed for Ticketmaster to sell via dynamic pricing which has those exact same £150 face value tickets listed for £350+.

The true spirit of outlaw rock n roll.

darthed1981

JerkMoans said:

Fuck it. Let’s have a Fretboard Oasis covers night, evening of the first gig  

That's actually rather a good idea.

Genuinely.

DefaultM

That's horrific. At least when you try get an Uber at 17:00 and it says surge pricing they haven't got a monopoly on you being able to get where you want to go. 

mrkb

darthed1981 said:

JerkMoans said:

Fuck it. Let’s have a Fretboard Oasis covers night, evening of the first gig  

That's actually rather a good idea.

Genuinely.

15 Noel wannabes and a backing track
Will be noisy !

JerkMoans

mrkb said:

darthed1981 said:

JerkMoans said:

Fuck it. Let’s have a Fretboard Oasis covers night, evening of the first gig  

That's actually rather a good idea.

Genuinely.

15 Noel wannabes and a backing track
Will be noisy !

Get it on the local news. Rock the shit out of the place: get a manager, a deal, blaze across the firmament and become bigger than God.

or some shit like dat  

Adey

My band did their songs better than they did themselves....

(not got a ticket....)

Philly_Q

I was asleep.  Have I missed anything this morning?

darthed1981

mrkb said:

darthed1981 said:

JerkMoans said:

Fuck it. Let’s have a Fretboard Oasis covers night, evening of the first gig  

That's actually rather a good idea.

Genuinely.

15 Noel wannabes and a backing track
Will be noisy !

Oh I dunno, I know a drummer who knows his way around a few Oasis songs...

wibble

ticketmaster checkout is a joke. There were quite a few sections still available when I got in with £239 tickets left but obviously everyone is trying to reserve the same seats and the checkout times out and says you can't reserve your chosen seats.

Obviously it's only the really expensive seats left when the seats refresh. gave up

randella

Same here. Five odd hours in the queue, then the numbers started falling rapidly. Ooh we're in! Yeah £710 for two tickets?

Get in the bin. Absolute pisstake. 

Ah well. Genuinely hope you guys who got tickets have a mint time, but I'm not paying that. 

swiller

Mine were platinum and expected some level of hospitalit over and above what should have been a 135 quid seat ticket. Im going all in medievil legally on ticketmasters arse on this one. Absolute cunts, quite shocked. It is ticket touting basically.

victorludorum

JerkMoans said:

Turns out Oasis published ticket prices which put Standing tickets in most of their venues at ~£150. Thats face value. 

 Oasis have allowed for Ticketmaster to sell via dynamic pricing which has those exact same £150 face value tickets listed for £350+.

The true spirit of outlaw rock n roll.

Have you seen the price of divorce lawyers lately?

JerkMoans

victorludorum said:

JerkMoans said:

Turns out Oasis published ticket prices which put Standing tickets in most of their venues at ~£150. Thats face value. 

 Oasis have allowed for Ticketmaster to sell via dynamic pricing which has those exact same £150 face value tickets listed for £350+.

The true spirit of outlaw rock n roll.

Have you seen the price of divorce lawyers lately?

Well. I share an office with about 35 of ‘em, so yeah  

beed84

Well, I waited a few hours in the lobby, finally got to the point of being able to buy tickets, only to be presented with a blank page saying “service unavailable” in some retro typewriter font before being returned back to the lobby. Fine, I won’t go then. All excitement lost to the stupid Ticketmaster system.

Philly_Q

I wonder if this will lead to one of those "something has to be done about the secondary ticketing market" pushes... which never seem to lead to any changes whatsoever.

DefaultM said:

I'm trying to understand this platinum thing. Whenever I've seen those listed on gigs I've assumed it was some sort of package deal maybe with a drink and goody bag included or something.
I just googled it and on the Ticketmaster site it says it's not part of a package it's just a normal ticket that they've seen is 'in demand' so they've upped the price.
Well they're all in demand aren't they? Its been in the news all week. So have they said that a ticket is £135 but then as soon as they go on sale they're pretending they didn't realise it would be this popular and actually they're going to have to be £400? 

It's an absolute scam.  Why should high demand justify a "dynamic" increase in the price?  If they have a face value, they should sell at face value, and once they're sold they're sold, bad luck to those who miss out. I don't know how the profits are shared, but why should Ticketmaster, or Oasis, have any entitlement to higher profits just because the thing they're selling is in demand?

It's like the opposite of those street markets where vendors hassle you and try to sell you things at crazy prices until you barter them down to some small fraction of the original price.  And they're still making a profit.