Oasis ticket sale ‘may have misled fans’ says watchdog

The Watchdog of the UK competition has said that the ticketmaster may “mislead the fans of Oasis” when the Watchdog of the UK competition said that the sale has been visited last year.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said that the company may have violated the consumer protection law by selling “platinum” tickets for about 2.5 times the standard price, without explaining that they had come without any additional profit.

“It gives consumers a misleading perception that platinum tickets were better,” it was said in one. Update to check for it in the ticketmaster.

The CMA says that the way he informs the ticketing platform customers and how it does, it is demanding a change on it. The ticketmaster says it “welcomes” the advice.

“In the ticketmaster, we try to provide the best ticketing platform through a simple, transparent and consumer-friendly experience,” a spokesman told the BBC via email.

“We welcome CMA’s input to help fans to improve the industry.”

More than 900,000 tickets were sold For a long -awaited reunion tour of Oasis, when he went on sale on 31 August last year

But many fans were released out of pockets, when the standard permanent tickets advertised at fees more than £ 135 were re -labeled “in demand” and turned to £ 355 plus fees on the ticketmaster.

Between the fall-outs, Oasis issued a statement stating that he had no “awareness that dynamic pricing in the sale of tickets for the initial dates was being used.

CMA launched its launch in September, to check if the ticketmaster was engaged in “unfair commercial practices”, and whether fans were pressurized to buy tickets within a short time.

The ticketmaster later refused using the “dynamic pricing” to manipulate prices.

“We do not change prices in any automatic or algorithm manner,” the company’s UK director, Andrew Parsons, Told MPs last month,

He said that all prices are determined by the artist teams and promoters – however, in the case of Oasis, the promoter, SJM concerts, the original company of the ticketmaster, are related to the live nation.

The CMA did not comment on the issue of dynamic pricing, but said that the ticketmaster made it difficult to create “informed options” for the fans of Oasis.

For example, it was said, customers did not know that “there were two categories of tickets standing at different prices, in which all cheap standing tickets were sold first”.

As a result, “many fans were waiting in a long queue, without understanding what they are paying and then decide whether they have to pay more than expected,” the CMA continued.

Watchdog admitted that the ticketmaster had made some changes in its commercial practices since the Oasis sales in August last August.

However, it has been said, “CMA does not currently consider that these changes are enough to remove its concerns”.

“Now we hope that the ticketmaster will work with us to address these concerns, so fans can take a well informed decision when buying tickets,” said Hele Fletcher said, “Now we hope that the ticketmaster will work with us.

The visit to Oasis is ready to close on July 4, 2025 at the princely state stadium in Cardiff.