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”.
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.
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.
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?
Before the 1980s, stillborn babies were taken away from families who were not given any details of what happened to their babies or where they were buried.
Medical staff would tell bereaved parents their children would be buried alongside “a nice person” who was being buried that same day – often without giving them the opportunity to say goodbye.
Instead, the babies were interred in mass graves.
That’s rough.
There was also no central registry of stillbirths which makes tracking them down difficult. My grandfather always claimed to have been one of twins but his brother, Anthony, was stillborn. We don’t even know if he existed (although my grandfather’s younger brothers both had sons called Anthony, which wasn’t a family name before that), let alone where he ended up.
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
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.
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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