Dreams ‘crushed’ as Ticketmaster cancels fans’ Oasis ’25 tickets
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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
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It doesn’t matter if it’s resold. If tickets can’t be resold with markup prices, scalpers won’t have any incentive to hoard and resell (assuming there are no fees for reselling, in an ideal scenario).
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100% right and I don't doubt the woman from the article feels the same but if you want to add weight to informing a company they fucking suck you use terms like loyal or committed or something similar that adds the red flag to corporate that their actions are affecting their customer retention bottom line.
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Oh I see, you mean ban legit reselling?.. could do. no chance of stopping unofficial reselling though (gumtree whatever). It's a terms of service thing not a legal thing. So gumtree, eBay etc are not obliged to take down such things. And of course they would never stop touts doing it in person on approaches to a venue..
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Ticketmaster can easily prevent out-of-band reselling by only allowing resales on their site. So anyone selling their tickets on ebay or wherever will still have to transfer the tickets and get paid through ticketmaster, which should only allow you to sell at original purchase price with no extra fees. This would also help prevent scams and fraud because all transactions would be via their system and they already implement that rotating code technology to prevent screenshots from working.
Of course ticketmaster doesn’t do that because they charge a fee on resales, which gets them more money.
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Exactly. Is it really loyalty when you only have one option?
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How could it actually work though? Without checking ID at the gate you have no idea if the ticketholder is the original or has bought from a scalper?
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Hi, it's me, here to ruin the fun as usual.
Noel and Liam Gallagher are the Gallaghers in question, and their band has been successfully sued for plagiarism on three different occasions.
I'm with Squid on this one.
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It sounds better than monopoly. Image is everything.
