Oasis, the reunion: the monetization of nostalgia

Oasis: “Another 120 euros for unjustly canceled tickets”

It is still chaos around the sale of tickets for the Oasis reunion tour. While the countdown officially started, less than 100 days at the debut in Cardiff (here the official playlist), a new controversy breaks out for the tickets that some fans have been unjustly cancel in the past few days. The reason? An alleged error made by Ticketmaster when he canceled thousands of tickets purchased using the bots, that is, of the programs that often carry out dirty work on behalf of the companies that reveal online tickets on the so -called Secondary ticketing: many fans had claimed to have been unjustly affected by the narrow, seeing erase tickets purchased regularly.

Now the same fans have been given the opportunity to buy tickets again, but these claim to have had to pay additional costs. In short, in addition to the damage also the mockery.

Fans denounced everything on social media. “I paid more than necessary after Ticketmaster scammed all the first time, just to see my tickets canceled and be put back on Ticketmaster with 100 pounds (120 euros, editor’s note) of extra expenses”, thundered one. And another: “106 pounds of service commission for what exactly?”.

Ticketmaster, for its part, makes it known that the tickets have been put back on sale at the original price paid, adding: “This provides fans with a safe space to sell the tickets they cannot use”. But fans are not there: “bullshit”.

Already last September the choice of Ticketmaster to apply the so -called Dynamic Pricing to the sale of the reunion of the Oasis, a practice that consists in setting the price of concert tickets based on the requests of the same, unleashed the ire of the fans, so as to convince the British government to start an investigation.