to think people who buy resale oasis tickets are mad

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should be a caveat (or very rich)

This isn't a thread about why anyone would ever want to buy oasis tickets. Done to death and I fully understand that everyone has different tastes etc.
I even understand from a FOMO/one off life event POV why people would pay crazy prices from official retailers for the most expensive VIP packages/really good seats if they were the only option left.

But over the last 24hrs there have been loads of people bragging how they bought tickets and immediately sold them for x times the original price, (e.g. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/i-bought-four-tickets-oasis-29847184) and this I do NOT get. Unless you literally have money to burn, if the band cancels, you will only get (at most, I'm not 100% on how resale refunds work) the original ticket price, i.e. the £80 the original buyer paid, not the £1000 you paid them.

Bad enough to risk for someone like TS who is very reliable, but for oasis who have an extensive history of throwing their toys out the pram? I'd be more willing to place a bet that not all of the planned tour dates will actually take place than to buy a ticket. Over the last few years incredibly high profile gigs have been cancelled for multiple reasons - MJ after his death, Adele's vegas residency, morrissey not feeling like it, TS terrorism threats...and Oasis have a history of being more pathetic man babies volatile than any of the above.

I can understand buying full price tickets even if an extortionate price from ticket master etc - if the band cancel the most you will lose financially is your booking fee, albeit you will obviously be disappointed. But unless you literally have a grand to burn, why on earth would anyone with a functioning brain cell risk paying over the odds for resale tickets and risk losing an absolute fortune?

I'm sort of with you, but to be fair I'm neither an Oasis fan nor do I think that £73 (bottom ticket price?) is good value for any band.

I've just paid £28 each for tickets for The James Taylor Quartet. Top, top band. £3 was booking fee with the venue. Surely a 'booking fee' is just a way of inflating ticket prices. Add it to the bottom line price and get on with it.

The problem is Ticketmaster (and their ilk) and their add ons and pricing structure.

The Nasty selling on practice could be sorted out. Kate Bush - or at least ticket sellers (I believe) had a system of linking tickets to the buyer. Name / photo / something. Let the proper fans, who don't mind paying £73 get the tickets that they want and will use.

As it is, it's just grasping, advantage taking and distasteful.

(And the hotels / air b'n'bs who have cancelled bookings and ramped up prices should be ashamed too).

If you buy from a resale site you'll get the full amount back you paid for the ticket if it's cancelled or if your ticket doesn't work / gets voided.

DH bought me a TS ticket from a resale site, the seller pulled out of the sale but the resale website stepped in and sourced me another TS ticket.

I wouldn't trust them to perform all the dates either. And I will pay to see who I want to see. I did pay for Taylor Swift, albeit £150 via the original ballot, and I paid about £90 to see Alanis Morisette (who cancelled the next gig after we saw her).

If you buy from a resale site you'll get what you paid for them. I bought tickets for Taylor swift in Vienna (through viagogo) and paid £200 each (face value said £89). When it was cancelled I got the £200 back. They actually offered me what I paid plus 20% if I took vouchers instead of a refund.