Oasis, canceled tickets. But it is chaos among fans
The Oasis and Ticketmaster had promised him and did it: the ticketing company canceled thousands of tickets for the reunion tour of the Gallagher brothers, those who would have been purchased using bots. The conditional is a must. Yes, because the cancellation of tickets, a move that represents a tight against the bots, that is, of the programs that often carry out dirty work on behalf of the companies that resell tickets online on the so -called secondary ticketing, has generated not a little chaos among the fans: many They claim to have been unjustly affected, seeing each other erase tickets purchased regularly. But let’s go in order.
In these hours Ticketmaster is contacting some ticket owners to inform them that they have reimbursed them because “it has been identified that bots have been used to make the purchase” of the same coupons, “violating the terms and conditions of the tour”. The Company underlines how “these terms have been established specifically to limit the resale of tickets on unauthorized ticketing platforms” and recalls how fans had been notified of “not buying tickets from unauthorized resale sites to protect them from fraud or reimbursements “. Moreover, already in October 50 thousand tickets for the Oasis reunion tour had been canceled because they are the subject of sale on secondary ticketing platforms. The same Gallagher brothers several times through posts appeared on the band’s official channels had warned fans. While among these, at the end of August, the convulsive ticket hunt had already started, at any cost, the Rock Band staff informed: “The tickets that appear on other secondary ticket sites are counterfeit or will be canceled by the promoters”.
Now from the words the Oasis and Ticketmaster have moved on to the facts. But on social networks there are many fans who tell that they have seen each other erase the tickets they had bought without mezzucci in these hours, regularly queuing on Ticketmaster, as told by the New Musical Express. And the protest against the ticketing platform started. “I received an email that informs me that I was reimbursed the ticket money because I may have used bots, but it’s not true,” says a user on X. “I just received an email that says that my tickets for the Oasis tour have been deleted due to the use of bots. And another one: “Why have you invalidated me tickets for the Oasis tour? Per, contact me to solve this matter. It is absurd”. There are those who also attach screenshots of the PC screen at the time of purchase: “But what are you combining? Bot? “.
The New Musical Express explains that you have contacted Ticketmaster to have answers on the case. RBy imposing on a question about the methods used to identify the tickets purchased by Bot, the company has made it known: “The experts abuse and fraud examined all sales and identified those made by Bot. We cannot enter the details more, because not We want the tussle that they use BOTs have more information on the process “.
