International Courant
Oasis followers aren’t discovering a lot glory this morning whereas making an attempt to purchase tickets for the band’s extremely anticipated reunion tour, with many reporting technical points.
After tickets for the band’s 17-date UK and Eire run went on sale Saturday morning through three web sites — Ticketmaster, GigsAndTours and See Tickets — followers took to social media to put up error messages or ridiculously lengthy queues, with some exceeding half one million individuals.
In a press release to Selection, Ticketmaster stated its web site had not crashed and the queue is “shifting alongside.”
“As anticipated, hundreds of thousands of followers are accessing our web site so have been positioned in a queue,” a Ticketmaster spokesperson stated. “Followers are suggested to carry their place in line, ensure they’re solely utilizing one tab, clear cookies and guarantee they are not utilizing any VPN software program on their machine.”
As followers scrambled for tickets, Oasis repeatedly warned towards scams and ticket reselling. In a message posted to X afterward Saturday morning, the band wrote: “Please observe, Oasis Reside ’25 tickets can solely be resold at face worth through @TicketmasterUK and @Twickets! Tickets showing on different secondary ticketing websites are both counterfeit or might be canceled by the promoters.”
Quickly after the presale for the tour began on Friday evening, tickets started showing on reselling web sites equivalent to StubHub and Viagogo for as a lot as £6,000. Face worth for a standing ticket to the tour is £150, and seated tickets vary as much as £205.
The opposite two web sites, GigsAndTours and See Tickets, have been reported to be holding followers in a “non permanent queue” earlier than directing them to the acquisition web page.
“Please bear with us whereas the positioning manages the capability. Prospects are put in a brief queue prematurely of consumers reaching the reserving web page when the positioning reaches heavy visitors,” a consultant for GigsAndTours replied to a consumer on X. “The demand for tickets is extraordinarily excessive. We want you the most effective of luck with securing them!”
Oasis Warns Towards Ticket Reselling as Followers Report Technical Points
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