Oasis - The Drink, The Band, The Dynamic Pricing

All-in-all; Blur.

This isn’t sounding like it’s going to be a happy experience. Woman on the radio this morning urging people strongly to take out the cancellation insurance despite the extortionate £30 per ticket upsell because of the “volatile” nature of the band and the events. Even then I’m sure the TM insurance won’t cover travel and accommodation losses. Manchester Premier Inn prices currently hiked up to £336 per night, normal price £48.

It will be agreed in advance that when there are only x amount or a certain percentage of tickets left that the price changes to the new price. Ticketmaster themselves do not have control over or set any gig prices. They do set their fees, which are usually a percentage of the ticket, this is why the fees are higher on a higher price ticket even though the transaction (i.e. buying however many tickets you are getting) is the same. I agree that something should be done about it, it seems ridiculous to pay hundreds of pounds just for a gig ticket.

Glad to see the media have finally discovered dynamic pricing.

I have always enjoyed the music of Oasis in spite of Oasis, and especially Noel. I thought I'd try getting tickets because they are a band of my youth, and it should be a fun experience, and would commit to avoiding any interviews with them to avoid being annoyed. But I failed to get a pre-sales code, and spent most of Saturday morning trying to login, then in a queue to join a queue, then getting kicked out, then being accused of being a bot, then back in a queue for a queue. 

I'm fortunate in that I can get to Murrayfield without having to book a hotel, and had hoped that would work in my favour, but not this time. I'm not hugely gutted, but may try again if there are more dates announced. 

I'll be interested to see what happens with the dynamic pricing. It's already pretty dodgy, but to spring it on people who have spent hours in a queue is unethical, and should be illegal if not already the case.

My theory is that they agreed to tour because they couldn't handle seeing Taylor Swift's success. I don't know what their views are on her, but based on previous comments about women in the music industry, and anyone who isn't a blokey guitar band playing Glastonbury, I suspect they couldn't stand all the talk about the records she was breaking. The talk of all the money she was making being a bonus.

Sorry, people, but the way fans are exploited is terrible. People having hotels cancelled, then have to rebook at three times the price? Unscrupulous money grabbers.

Totally agree, something really needs to be done

I don't think The Fringe Society realize quite how disastrous it is. This doesn't just affect a few days. This will affect thousands of performers who now can't get a room for a month due to those few days for the gigs already being booked. That being the case, how does the Fringe even happen properly next year? Will we see performers doing short runs in the weeks after the gigs? Short run in the first week then back for the end?

Not but it's a huge problem isn;t it? An influx of hundreds of thousands of people who have already booked accommodation for a few days mid Fringe. I have no idea what the answer is, I've seen some performers on Twitter even suggest moving the Fringe to mid August to mid September.

If social media is your main ref point, things can soon spiral to hair-on-fire #armageddon #hashtags

Well, cities cope very well with marches and other forms of protest. London is bigger but 150k - 250K through the West End on a Saturday afternoon solidarity march is common place atm (matinee crowds + been the height of tourist season, as well).