Organizers of next summer's tour by British group Oasis, whose reconfiguration has generated huge excitement, will cancel tickets bought on unofficial resale sites, which could affect thousands of fans, they said on Monday.
Brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher announced at the end of August that they were reforming their legendary group for tour, fifteen years after their devastating split.
Fans flocked in on August 31 to buy concert tickets, but that quest for tickets turned into chaos, with endless queues and crashes on official sales sites, particularly Ticketmaster, the ticket sales giant.
Fans have been warned that tickets purchased from unofficial resale sites may be cancelled.
According to organizers, 4% of tickets, or thousands of tickets, ended up on these sites.
“In the coming weeks, ticket agencies Ticketmaster and See Tickets will begin canceling tickets that do not comply with the general conditions of sale established for the tour,” an organizers spokesman said on Monday.
He added: “The ticket sales process is being reviewed.”
“The canceled tickets will be put back on sale in due course through the official Ticketmaster agency and more information on this will be communicated shortly,” she added.
This chapter warned that “all parties participating in the tour continue to urge fans not to purchase tickets from unauthorized sites, as some may be fraudulent and others are subject to cancellation.”
By August 31, the value of tickets had reached several hundred, even thousands, of euros on unofficial resale sites.
In addition, the UK Competition Authority opened an investigation against Ticketmaster, for its practice of “dynamic pricing”, which resulted in ticket prices rising significantly beyond the initially quoted prices.
The band, founded in 1991, will play in their hometown of Manchester next summer, as well as Cardiff, London, Edinburgh and Dublin.
They will then tour the United States, Canada and Australia.
Published on October 28 at 9:48 pm, Agence France-Presse
