Dreams ‘crushed’ as Ticketmaster cancels fans’ Oasis ’25 tickets
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They should be grateful for Ticketmaster sparing them that torture.
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Wow, strong take. Don't get me wrong, I don't like Oasis, but I'm sure other people listen to them on purpose.
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I don't actually mind their music, I just like shitting on Oasis because the Gallaghers are assholes.
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How can be legal? Bot detection should apply almost immediately, not after six months.
It smells like "we sold too many tickets, we need a plausible excuse to refund people"
And there's a simple trick to stop bots: make tickets non transferable. But that would hurt their secondary sales on that other reselling site operated by themselves, and shows wouldn't be sold out immediately due to FOMO (if tickets can be resold even at a higher price, people would buy them even if they're not 100% sure they can attend the show)
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Am I being cynical if I wonder if Ticketmaster just cancelled a number of tickets randomly, just so they can resell those at its new "market price." Normally I would just assume incompetence or a mistake, but this is Ticketmaster.
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I refuse to look up if the Gallaghers are the last names of the singers. Instead, I like to imagine you're blaming a completely different set of famous Gallagher brothers
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To be honest, "assholes" fits in either case.
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Well, you are, but not as cynical as ticketmaster who might have done exactly that.
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You are, and you’re probably right.
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It's definitely just me, but I think every event like this is just for consumers that don't know any better.
It's sad watching fully-grown adults get googly-eyed over things like this, but here we are.
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This is almost certainly the case. I also know Airbnb hosts do that all the time.
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She initially thought the email was fake, but after realising it was from Ticketmaster she said she does not intend to buy tickets from the company in the future, despite being a loyal customer.
Loyal customer pretty much means the same as regular concert goer.
I go to quite a few concerts and all of my tickets are bought from Ticketmaster in some form. I wouldn’t call myself loyal to them as I’m forced to choose between Ticketmaster or no concert.
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If there’s a financial incentive for them to do it, then that’s why they did it. Follow the money. There are no ramifications for Ticketmaster to do this sort of abhorrent behavior. They just don’t care.
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It should say "bots not approved and distributed by Ticketmaster to scalpers".
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make tickets non transferable
This sounds sensible, but in practice ID checking however many tens of thousands of people on their way into a venue would take forever. (Not to mention now having to deal with the portion of genuine customers who've forgotten to bring Id etc)
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It's definitely just me, but I think every event like this is just for consumers that don't know any better.
You're against performing arts/live shows and think people who enjoy them are suckers? That truly is a wild take.
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Maybe you are, but it's what I thought too.
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It would be easier to not allow resales above the original purchase price.
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Without ID on the ticket you don't know it's been resold. All a venue sees is someone presenting a valid QR code (or whatever)
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I have a season MLS ticket to my local team directly through the team, and everything is controlled and processed through Ticketmaster anyways. Have to log in to ticket Master through a special portal to access anything
