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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.
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.
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 Adverts.ie.
Adverts.ie, 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 Adverts.ie which said that they were selling a ticket on another website, Tixel, before the Adverts.ie 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.
“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.
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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