The excitement about the Oasis reunion turned sour for some fans when they were faced with prices that had more than doubled while they had spent hours in a virtual queue. Will the ensuing row over “dynamic pricing” have a lasting impact?
Oasis fan John and his family planned a major operation to buy Oasis tickets on Saturday – him on his phone and iPad while at work, in Burnley, his wife and son on their phones and laptop at home, in Cumbria, and his daughter on her phone, in Leeds.
“My wife and son were travelling across on the train over to Leeds, changing trains, and were on their phones constantly, in the queue,” he told BBC Radio 5 Live.
“My wife said she saw loads of other people in the same situation, all staring at their phones, trying to buy tickets.”
By mid-afternoon, after six hours in the online queue, John had given up, but his wife was eventually offered tickets – for £355 each.
“I find that just disgraceful,” he said.
Oasis have “built their career on the connection they’ve got with ordinary folk”, John said.
“But when you’ve queued all day and the price of the ticket has more than doubled, I just think they’ve broken their contract with the working class.
“They’re pretty dead to me now.”
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