AIBU to believe that the cost of living crisis is a load of nonsense

[MaryWils24]

So I wake up this morning to find that 14 million people are trying for Oasis tickets. A mediocre rock band and a “reunion” tour just to create a retirement fund for two already multi-millionaires.

The question is - where are so many people getting the money from to buy tickets? On one hand people moan about the “cost of living” but can easily find £500 to fund this nonsense.

Madness.

People should stop moaning about the cost of living if they can waste money on things like this. They are either getting too much income from their job/benefits (if they can afford this) to complain about “cost of living” or they should stop moaning about increasing food/fuel prices!

Rant over!

Very true. The garages actually prefer those buying on finance now rather than cash buyers as they make lots more that way. Back in the good old days it was the other way around. Good for you for resisting the constant pressure to buy new cars every time a dealer adds a small feature or something. Nowadays you can pay £30,000 for a car and three years down the line you’ll be told (literally pressured by garages to believe) that it is second-rate because they have added new features to the models, when it is still perfectly fine. The same with iPhones and the like too.

Here you go. Yours is better @FatmanandKnobbin.

Whoever started this thread must be related to the person who started the “all British teenagers are awful” thread further down. There are remarkable similarities in their logic.

From what I have heard, many people who finance their cars sign a clause to say that they don’t actually own them and they are returned to the garage at the end of the contract for a rental period. So people are actually just renting cars!

It would surely make more sense financially in the long-run to swallow one’s pride and buy a good quality (maybe lower brand) second hand car outright.

Surely the premise of capitalism is that we are" free to whatever we want!" with our cash!

@MaryWils24 this type of "conversation" is something to have with a few of your friends over a bottle of wine, people you know well and get where you're coming from - not with unknown people on the internet for fear of making yourself sound insensitive, patronising and condescending, in short lacking in social intelligence.

the more responses you out, the deeper the hole you're digging - it's cringeworthy!

Ooh, I like the ducks. The little one looking up to the bigger one is quite cute.

I am not rich but I spend my money of all kiinds of things that you might not approve of...including Oasis tickets.

Yes, but some people obviously cannot handle money very well and make poor financial decisions. Perhaps financial literacy should be made a part of the national curriculum as a part of GCSE Maths and it would better equip them to understand things like compound interest.

To me, anyone who pays interest on a credit card or who buys their car on finance is lacking any financial literacy.

Our car’s on 0% finance, meanwhile our savings are making 5% interest. 🤷‍♀️

So will Taylor Swift. Millions queued for that, too. Where was your ire? Oh, wait, nice, middle-class American you wanted to take your daughter to see, so all the other people in the queue must be nice middle class people who can afford it. Like you.

Oasis, a couple of long-hair louts from a council estate, all their fans must be on benefits and buying on the never-never?

Come on, will you actually answer the point a few besides me have made about your massive assumption of those wanting tickets for this particular event as opposed to the large numbers trying for the tickets for the event YOU went to?

14 million, let's say about 5 million from overseas. So 10 million people out of 65 million and you presume they are buying on credit whilst moaning about COL?
Based on what?

I can afford Oasis tickets too, but I can still bitch about my electricity bill, or my council tax going up to over £4K, or paying £2.50 for a food item that was £1. They’re not mutually exclusive. I can also bitch about the cost of the Oasis tickets. Nobody is happy about paying double the cost of things since two years ago.

Do you still live at home OP? Maybe the cost of bills doesn’t affect you?

Ooh they could add empathy and kindness as well for people like you!

It doesn’t really matter whether it is Taylor Swift, Oasis or whoever. My point is that it is a bit rich if the same people who constantly moan about a cost of living crisis suddenly find the funds for any event that it would be over in a couple of hours, where they could have spent their money on something that actually helps improve their long-term situation. When someone is complaining of a cost of living crisis, things like concerts would surely be second priority to survival.

The same principle applies to those who spend their income on luxuries over essentials in any instance if it means living beyond their means and building up long-term debt.

Oh shit am I going to lose my house because I bought my washing machine on credit card?

Was planning on paying it off at the end of the month along with my solid gold toilet.

YOU DONT KNOW WHO IS BUYING THE TICKETS YOU ABSOLUTE MELON

I mean in this in the nicest way possible but is oasis ticket buyers really the wealthy peoples option ?

Thank fuck I didn’t get those Oasis tickets then - thanks for saving me from destitution babes xo

Don’t be silly now.

Using a credit card for purchases like that is good, so long as you pay it off in full every month. It gives you extra protection under the Consumer Credit Act.

I know what you mean op. Everyone complains about being skint and then oasis announce a tour and at the drop of a hat people are spending £££100s on tickets. I couldn’t afford to. But I wouldn’t want to either.

Buy what you want with a Credit Card. I have nothing against Credit Cards - as said they give extra protection. The unfortunate problem for some though is that it becomes easy to live beyond one’s means on a credit card, at which point it starts to become costly through the interest that becomes payable.

I think this sometimes but not about concert tickets only. I always find it fascinating how busy Westfield shopping centre is or how many people buying social media viral products and there are not Rich people. The lines in Sephora and amount of 11 year olds rocking 35 pound a tub moisturiser.

No they don't.
You only hear people moaning they're skint if they actually are!.
There's plenty of people who can afford tickets as well as pay their bills.
People aren't all the same.
This thread's daft 😁

I know that all too many are buying them on credit and using the “buy now, pay later” facility that is available on Ticketmaster. I also have seen several posts on social media from old acquaintances who normally pipe on about cost of living yet miraculously manage to afford Oasis tickets.