Ticketmaster may have breached law in pricing Oasis tickets, says UK watchdog

Competition and Markets Authority said the ticketing giant may have 'breached' consumer protection law by labelling certain seats as 'platinum', and selling them for almost 2.5 times the price of standard equivalent tickets, without sufficiently explaining they did not offer any additional benefits

Ireland's competition and consumer protection watchdog, the CCPC, has opened its own investigation into Ticketmaster's handling of the sale of Oasis tickets for their concerts here. That investigation is currently ongoing.

The UK competition watchdog has said Ticketmaster may have broken consumer protection law in the way it sold more than 900,000 tickets for Oasis’s reunion tour last year.

An investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has found Ticketmaster may have misled fans, some of whom paid more than £350 (€419) for tickets with a face value of £150, in the way it priced tickets for the band’s comeback gigs this year.