The Prime Minister has spoken out over the extortionate prices for tickets to the Oasis reunion tour over the weekend
Sir Keir Starmer has said the Government will get a “grip” on the issue of surge pricing after hundreds of fans complained about inflated prices for Oasis reunion tour tickets.
Asked if that could mean changing the law, he said: “I mean, we’re consulting, and it may well mean adjustments, but there are a number of techniques going on here where people are buying a lot of tickets, reselling at a huge price, and that’s just not fair, and it’s just pricing people out of the market. And every parent will know, in relation to children, the pressure to get tickets for events, I certainly do.
Following the ticket furore, the Advertising Standards Authority received 450 complaints about Ticketmaster adverts for the Oasis gigs. A spokesperson for the UK’s regulator of advertising said the complainants argue that the adverts made “misleading claims about availability and pricing”. Sylvia Rook, lead officer for fair trading at the Chartered Trading Standards Institute , said “dynamic pricing is an accepted practice for holidays, flights and taxis, the difference here is that consumers are informed of the price before they decide to make a purchase.” She added: “In this case, the public were given a price for tickets, and were not informed until they finally got to the front of the queue, that the price had increased.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy released a statement on Sunday calling the inflated selling of Oasis tickets “incredibly depressing”. “After the incredible news of Oasis’ return, it’s depressing to see vastly inflated prices excluding ordinary fans from having a chance of enjoying their favourite band live”, she said.
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