Oasis is canceling reunion tour tickets sold by resellers
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Oasis is canceling around 50,000 tickets for its British tour dates that were resold on secondary websites like StubHub and Viagogo.
Oasis is canceling around 50,000 tickets for its British tour dates that were resold on secondary websites like StubHub and Viagogo. The band’s tour promoters are canceling tickets resold through unofficial secondary sites to stop price gouging, a spokesperson for Live Nation and SJM, the Oasis tour promoters, told CNN. Oasis fans are the latest to deal with the issue of ticket scalpers, who purchase tickets at face value and resell them for profit. The practice has ensnared — and enraged — fans of everyone from Taylor Swift to Coldplay, becoming the rare issue in Washington that lawmakers from both parties can agree on. Oasis, which dominated airwaves in the 90s, hasn’t performed since 2009, when an argument between bickering brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher led to its split. The band’s reunion tour was announced in August, and its popularity has brought renewed attention to frustrations around ticket accessibility and fans being priced out of major concerts. When tickets for Oasis’s UK and Ireland reunion tour went live in August, some fans took to social media to lament surging prices, long wait times and even missing out entirely on buying tickets. There were 1.4 million tickets available, with 10 million fans from 158 countries vying to buy them, according to Live Nation. With enormous demand and limited supply, tickets were promptly re-listed on secondary sites at inflated prices. CNN saw ticket prices as high as $7,294 for the Oasis tour on Viagogo, a secondary market for ticket sales.
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