By Jordan Reynolds, PA
Oasis fans hoping to attend the band’s concerts hit out at Ticketmaster as prices were raised hours after tickets went on sale, describing the process as “sickening” and “scandalous”.
Users on X, formerly Twitter, reported the price for tickets nearly doubled from around £148 to £355 on Ticketmaster after they waited for hours to secure their place at the Oasis Live ’25 shows.
An explanation by the website about the “in-demand standing ticket” price says: “The event organiser has priced these tickets according to their market value.
“Tickets do not include VIP packages. Availability and pricing are subject to change.”
When asked about this issue by the PA news agency, Ticketmaster said it does not set prices and shared a link to its website where it says costs can be “fixed or market-based”.
Darragh Moriarty, from Dublin, said ticket prices had risen to €415 when he got to the front of the queue, but his friends had bought them for €180.
The 30-year-old health charity worker said he had hoped a group of six would be able to go, but among his group, only four people were able to get tickets.
He compared his WhatsApp group with his friends to the Hunger Games as they decided who would get the tickets.
He said: “We had a raffle between six of us, thankfully my name came out of the hat.
“None of us paid that price (€415/£349).
“The hope is most people don’t buy them at that rate and they go back down.
“It’s stomach-churning to see preying on people’s desperation and getting absolutely gouged like that.”
Mr Moriarty logged on to Ticketmaster at 7.30am and it was about 9.15am when he reached the front of the queue and saw the ticket prices.
He added: “It seems incredibly disingenuous, it’s just incredible.
“There’s justifiably a lot of anger at Ticketmaster.”
Meanwhile, on ticket resale websites, prices ranged, but the lowest seen on Saturday afternoon was £537 while the highest was £14,104.
A handful of standing tickets were on sale for the London shows on Viagogo on Saturday, ranging from £773 to £1,512. Seated tickets for London ranged from £655 to £5,971.
Standing tickets for the Cardiff concerts were on Viagogo ranging from £537 to £1,095, and seated tickets ranged from £596 to £5,906.
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