Oasis Reunion

Offset

Kittyfrisk said:

darthed1981 said:

Offset said:
<hilarious meme>

Reel him in @Offset ;

I have no need dear boy.

Ed?!

UnclePsychosis

Not sure what anyone expects the watchdog or government to do. 

As Ticketmaster point out - train companies and airlines do exactly the same. Legally this is exactly the same, even if morally it does suck. 

The public can fix it by refusing to pay, but I think that's about it. 

darthed1981

Offset said:

Kittyfrisk said:

darthed1981 said:

Offset said:
<hilarious meme>

Reel him in @Offset ;

I have no need dear boy.

Ed?!

It was meant mostly in jest and good humour from both sides I thought...

Kittyfrisk

darthed1981 said:

Offset said:

Kittyfrisk said:

darthed1981 said:

Offset said:
<hilarious meme>

Reel him in @Offset ;

I have no need dear boy.

Ed?!

It was meant mostly in jest and good humour from both sides I thought...

Don't tell him Pike...

darthed1981

Kittyfrisk said:

darthed1981 said:

Offset said:

Kittyfrisk said:

darthed1981 said:

Offset said:
<hilarious meme>

Reel him in @Offset ;

I have no need dear boy.

Ed?!

It was meant mostly in jest and good humour from both sides I thought...

Don't tell him Pike...

Oh do fuck off @Kittyfrisk

Kittyfrisk

I shall place your request on the 'pending consideration' pile  B-)

LionAquaLooper

UnclePsychosis said:

Not sure what anyone expects the watchdog or government to do. 

As Ticketmaster point out - train companies and airlines do exactly the same. Legally this is exactly the same, even if morally it does suck. 

The public can fix it by refusing to pay, but I think that's about it. 

No. You don't queue up for hours, find the price has skyrocketed only when you reach booking stage , and get given 2 or so minutes to decide whether to book airline/train tickets or hotel rooms do you. In those scenarios, buyers can see the prices in advance while browsing. Don't like the price? Look elsewhere. You get given a proper informed choice without pressure. 

The minimum they should do to be more fair to fans is to display the price increases WHILE people are in the queue. That is minimal effort on their part to implement. But the ideal solution is to do away with this dynamic pricing BS altogether. In today's day and age, a company as big as Live Nation have or should have analysts or actuaries who can predict demand and set prices accordingly and leave it at that. It's how it's always been done. These companies don't just set ticket prices out of thin air.  So to increase prices within a few hrs because they say they were "surprised" by the sudden demand is absolute garbage and lies. Its nothing but greed, no two ways about it. 

That comparison that Ticketmaster used as justification is not even close to a like for like comparison. 

RocknRollDave

I wonder what the settings are…?

motorhead

Paul Heaton (Housemartins) has forced a £35 ticket price cap on his arena tour.

Offset

Kittyfrisk said:

I shall place your request on the 'pending consideration' pile  B-)

Don't carp on about it - you'll fall off your perch.

Kittyfrisk

Offset said:

Kittyfrisk said:

I shall place your request on the 'pending consideration' pile  B-)

Don't carp on about it - you'll fall off your perch.

I'll de-scale the matter.

Supportact

Ok I'm issuing a formal fish pun warning here. All fish puns were purged and contained in the following thread some time ago so that we wouldn't have to do this any more:

https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/234507/fish-puns/p1

Come on, we are better than this. 

RocknRollDave

I didn’t expect this thread to flounder on fish puns.

swiller

Supportact said:

Come on, we are batter than this. 

FTFY

Supportact

swiller said:

Supportact said:

Come on, we are batter than this. 

FTFY

Pollocks. 

LPManic

If you want to go then buy a ticket. Pay the amount you want to pay. If you don’t want to go then don’t buy a ticket. End of.

Soulslinger

Ireland has already banned resale above face value and are seeking to amend the same legislation to combat this. I believe Ticketmaster does follow the current regime on resale there (don’t forget they own a big chunk of that market) so this shows they may have to comply with a given territory’s rules.

I’ve long been sceptical though of a government’s willingness to act rather than talk on things like this. I imagine there will be a lot of lobbying pressure and possible legal challenges. I’d also expect TM to try to find a loophole around anything announced, which I suspect would be easier with surge pricing than resale.

Can you imagine surge pricing be accepted by customers in a supermarket queue? It’s bonkers. Amazon do it too. If there’s ever very limited stock, particularly on items with a marketplace seller, they jack the price. I see this a lot with physical music, particularly vinyl records.

barnstorm

LionAquaLooper said:

UnclePsychosis said:

Not sure what anyone expects the watchdog or government to do. 

As Ticketmaster point out - train companies and airlines do exactly the same. Legally this is exactly the same, even if morally it does suck. 

The public can fix it by refusing to pay, but I think that's about it. 

No. You don't queue up for hours, find the price has skyrocketed only when you reach booking stage , and get given 2 or so minutes to decide whether to book airline/train tickets or hotel rooms do you. In those scenarios, buyers can see the prices in advance while browsing. Don't like the price? Look elsewhere. You get given a proper informed choice without pressure. 

The minimum they should do to be more fair to fans is to display the price increases WHILE people are in the queue. That is minimal effort on their part to implement.

Agree that vs air/train tickets there's a disgraceful lack of transparency – but I don't think providing real-time information would make people less frustrated. The customer experience is totally different because in the case of something like train tickets people are almost never trying to buy all at once.

If there were 100 tickets for an event available from the box office only, with first person in the queue paying £1 and the last paying £100, you'd think: 'That's a shitty policy,' but you'd turn up, see 37 people standing in line already and accept that your ticket was going to cost £38.

From the point of view of the tens of thousands who log on to Ticketmaster the moment tickets go on sale, they're ALL first in the queue. Some combination of internet connections and computer systems dictates their position in the queue, but it feels like total bullshit to log on as promptly as humanly possible and still find yourself 11,000 places back.

JerkMoans

Supportact said:

swiller said:

Supportact said:

Come on, we are batter than this. 

FTFY

Pollocks. 

I’ll have to mullet over  

guyinlyon

dano said:

Anyone noticed yet that since Oasis announced a reunion and  creamed in £225M in revenue that not a single picture of Noel and Liam together has been published ?

Supposedly Liam has been relaxing in the South of France and Noel been in his studio.