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Oasis tickets bought with dynamic pricing are on 'ethical' resale websites abroad for over €560
OASIS TICKETS FOR this weekend's much-awaited gigs at Croke Park are being sold for over €500 on 'ethical' and 'fair' resale platforms that cap prices relative to the face value cost.
The Journal
has
previously reported that tickets for the sold out
shows have been resold on Ticketmaster for close to €600, but new searches ahead of the weekend gigs have shown they are also being sold on resale platforms based in the UK and Australia.
UK-based Twickets is
the official resale platform
for the 41-concert Oasis '25 tour, with the website only allowing tickets to be resold at the face value paid 'plus a standard booking fee between 10-15%'.
The website states:
Twickets is an ethical ticket resale marketplace, enabling users to sell spare tickets at the price they paid, or less. We have partnered with Oasis as their official ticket resale platform to protect fans from being ripped off by profiteering resale sites that encourage ticket touting.
A search of Twickets for the Dublin gigs showed tickets available listed at between €357 and €515.
Several of these tickets are described as being originally sold by Ticketmaster as 'In Demand' tickets, which was the description used for the
dynamic pricing model that was controversially
used for some tickets when they went on sale last year.
Dynamic pricing essentially describes a fluctuating price which rises with increased demand and, in the case of Oasis tickets, led to fans paying hundreds of euros for tickets.
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It is unclear exactly how many of the tickets sold for the Croke Park gigs were bought via fixed pricing or via dynamic pricing, but much of what is available through resale websites are clearly dynamically priced tickets being resold.
Twickets states this explicitly in listings, saying: 'These are standard tickets sold at varying prices by the original retailer, which may be much greater than other similar tickets.'
In the case of two tickets being resold which
The Journal
saw this week, one was a dynamically priced ticket for the Lower Cusack Stand which originally sold for
€490
but which was now available for
€515
.
The other was an Upper David Stand ticket which sold via dynamic pricing for
€332
and was now available for
€357
.
In these cases, the resale prices are 5% and 7% above the original face value prices, respectively.
Twickets
Twickets
The resale of tickets above face value
has been banned in Ireland since 2021
and, as a result, Oasis tickets being sold at inflated prices has largely not been prevalent on online marketplaces such as
whose owner has common shareholders with Journal Media,
states on its website
that all ticket sales must be 'at face value (plus booking fee and additional costs) or less' and that 'moderators reserve the right to remove any ad that is deemed excessive'.
In one case,
The Journal
viewed an ad listed by a seller on which said that they were selling a ticket on another website, Tixel, before the post was removed.
Australian-headquartered
Tixel operates across a number of territories
and allows sellers to list tickets for resale at a prices that are capped at 20% above face value.
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'This allows sellers to cover the fees associated with listing a ticket on Tixel as well as regain the face value they paid for the ticket,' the website states.
Tixel takes
a cut of 5.9% of the purchase price
and the company says it has a 'mission' to be 'fair, accessible, and transparent'.
'We've built an event marketplace that helps fans get to their favourite shows without paying through the nose to be there,' the website adds.
Tixel
Tixel
A search of Tixel did show a number of tickets for Oasis in Croke Park, with one listed as being a Standing ticket bought via dynamic pricing for
€437
which was now available for
€481
.
Another Platinum ticket for the Lower Hogan Stand was listed as having been purchased for
€516
which was now being sold for
€567
.
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