Ticketmaster to be investigated by watchdog over 'dynamic pricing' of Oasis tickets

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• GiveOver@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Spent ages in the queue and had tickets in my basket but I just couldn’t face £350 per ticket. Fuck Oasis, I don’t believe for a second that they were unaware of their own ticket prices. How can they complain against touts and scalping when that’s exactly what happened here.

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  • Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They claimed it was there to deter touts but they just ended up charging more.

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    • br3d@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Apparently the surge pricing reflected what touts would have charged. Makes you want to grab somebody and shout HOW IS THAT A JUSTIFICATION?! Yeah, and if somebody steals a car they’ll sell it to me cheaper than the dealer - so it feels like TM logic means the dealer should sell it to me cheaper too because that’s what the black market is priced at?

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• j4yt33@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Classic Ticketmaster

  I don’t understand how any musicians/managements can still claim that they didn’t know about ticketmaster’s bullshit practices

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Of course they know.

    When Ticketmaster does their surge pricing, the musicians also take a cut - the extra profit is split.

    It’s a win-win for them both. They both get more money, and Ticketmaster gets all the blame, absorbing all the hate, which they don’t care about.

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    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can also make better money without looking like the bad guy by only releasing a small portion of tickets for general sale. Sell the rest offline to brokers who will put them on the secondary market.

      Scalpers look like the bad guys while you rake in what you feel you deserve - and even have the market’s apparent willingness to pay to back it up.

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  • Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The management did, the band claim they didn’t.

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• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ticketmaster have been price gouging events for decades. This was just where they ended up because regulators have let them get away with it.

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• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Remember when grocery store chains and restaurant say they’re going to implement dynamic pricing

  This is 100% of the time they will do it

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think I speak for a lot of people in wishing Ticketbastard a very die in a fire

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  • AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They are one of the most egregious examples of a monopoly. Fuck them!

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• Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Some people have said Oasis agreed to this, the band have released a statement saying they didn’t know about it, although their management and promoters did sign up to it “to help keep general ticket prices down as well as reduce touting”.

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  • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ahh yes, the old stop scalpers by becoming scalpers trick!

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• Lifebandit666@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kick back, watch it crumble

  See the drowning

  Watch the fall

  I feel just terrible about it

  That’s sarcasm, let it burn

  I’m gonna make a toast when it falls apart

  I’m gonna raise my glass above my heart

  Then someone shouts, “That’s what they get”

  For all the years of hit-and-run

  For all the piss broke bands on VH-1

  Where did all their money go?

  Don’t we all know?

  Parasitic music industry

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  • omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Flying to LA for their final concert. Instead I could have watched Oasis for the same price… lol

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    • Lifebandit666@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Either way you’re paying lots of money to watch a man sing that can’t sing. At least with NOFX he wears a tutu too

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• wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Heard a lot about that over in the US, no surprise crappy Ticketmaster brought it over here. Already on my avoid list as they block VPNs, kinda “you can’t fire me, I quit!” vibes but I don’t regret it

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• Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Issues with monopolies and price controls should absolutely be addressed.

  But supply and demand of in demand tickets where people are choosing to pay for non vital entertainment. Paying market prices doesn’t seem an issue.

  Some venues you can’t even buy a ticket because it’s all owned by corporations that give them out to mates or business interests. That’s more of a concern.

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  • Tamo240@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I disagree with this whole ‘market price’ thing because as a consumer you don’t have constant opportunity to buy. You get one slot where you are are the front of the queue, and if you don’t like the price then tough. It essentially just rewards those who got to the front sooner, and punishes later joiners.

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    • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yea that’s fucked. But they do need some data to judge demand.

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• FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t get what the problem is about this? The last tickets are worth more than the first ones, no?

  They could just auction all the tickets, but the result would be the same

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