Oasis Fanatics Declare Tickets Have Been Cancelled Amid Crackdown on Bots

Ticketmaster has begun cancelling hundreds of tickets for Oasis’ upcoming reunion excursion in a crackdown on bots.

Passes for the displays within the U.K. and Eire went on sale in August 2024, however the on-sale procedure used to be marred by way of lengthy delays and using dynamic pricing type, which intended that price ticket costs had been upper for some lovers than anticipated. 

Reviews stated that over 50,000 tickets ended up on resale websites, in spite of efforts to limit touts re-selling tickets at inflated costs.

A remark issued by way of promoters Reside Country and SJM Live shows on the time learn: “Price tag resale is authorized at not more than the cost you paid (face worth + reserving charges). Please best use the legitimate resale companions Twickets and Ticketmaster. Promoting tickets via unauthorised resale platforms will breach those T&Cs and the ones tickets could also be cancelled”.

Now, Ticketmaster had been contacting some price ticket holders to tell them that their tickets had been refunded as “it’s been known that bots had been used to make this acquire,” which means they “violate the excursion’s phrases and prerequisites.”

“Those phrases had been particularly established to restrict resale of tickets on unauthorised ticketing platforms for benefit,” the message says. “Fanatics had been strongly instructed by way of all events to not acquire tickets from unauthorised resale websites, to offer protection to them from fraud or refunding.”

On the other hand some Oasis lovers have reported on social media that their tickets had been wrongly cancelled within the efforts, in spite of abiding the foundations of the on-sale procedure. “If 2025 may in reality get any worse – now I don’t also have this to sit up for any longer,” wrote one fan on X (previously Twitter) on Friday (February 7) appearing a message from Ticketmaster pronouncing that their tickets have been cancelled.

Any other wrote: “So what’s this entire sh-tshow? Sat on my computer for hours on common sale day to safe simply TWO tickets for ONE gig and also you’re telling me I’m a bot and a tout!” The put up is accompanied by way of photos of his price ticket purchasing set-up which contains one instrument however with more than one tabs. 

Reviews within the BBC and The Parent have known lovers who’ve additionally had their tickets cancelled, with one telling the previous that “it simply seems like my goals had been utterly beaten.”

Billboard UK has approached Ticketmaster for remark. At the Oasis Refunds FAQ web page, a message reads: “For price ticket clients who imagine they have got had tickets refunded in error, confer with the e-mail despatched by way of the related agent when knowledgeable.”

Following the unique on sale, the band answered to the scoop that tickets have been on-sale on resale websites for upwards of £10,000 ($12,412)

“We have now spotted folks making an attempt to promote tickets at the secondary marketplace because the get started of the pre-sale. Please observe, tickets can ONLY be resold, at face worth, by way of Ticketmaster and Twickets.

“Tickets offered in breach of the phrases and prerequisites can be cancelled by way of the promoters.” Twickets shared Oasis’s remark and added their very own: “Don’t purchase tickets over face worth. Reputable resale can be to be had on our website online/app at face worth best.”

Oasis’ reunion excursion will kick off on the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales on July 4, prior to heading to Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin around the 19 dates. The excursion will then head to North The us, Latin The us, Australia and Asia later this 12 months.