Thousands of tickets for the Oasis reunion tour are canceled

Tens of thousands of tickets sold for the band Oasis' reunion tour are being canceled to prevent the tickets from being resold on secondary platforms.

BBC reports that the band's promoters, Live Nation and SJM, have announced that they will cancel over 50,000 tickets sold for the band's UK performances through ticket resale websites.

Many of the voided tickets were sold well above their original retail price. They will be available again at their original value through the official seller Ticketmaster.

According to BBC News, 1.4 million tickets for the band's UK tour dates were initially put on sale in August and fans were told they could only purchase them through Ticketmaster or resale partner Twickets.

Over 10 million fans from more than 150 countries queued to buy tickets, and thousands of tickets appeared on resale sites hours after they went on sale at inflated prices.

According to the organizers, four percent of the tickets (about 50,000 in total) were sold through resale sites, which they say violates the conditions of purchase.

“These terms and conditions have been successfully introduced to clamp down on secondary ticket companies who resell tickets at a huge profit,” a LiveNation spokesperson told the BBC. “Only four percent of tickets ended up on resale sites. For some major tours, up to 20 percent of tickets may appear through the major unauthorized (sic) secondary platforms.”

The statement continued to discourage fans from purchasing tickets through secondary websites and warned that these tickets could also be canceled or be fraudulent.

Fans who believe their tickets have been canceled in error should contact their local ticket seller, according to the BBC.

Reselling tickets is legal in both the US and the UK. A spokesperson for ticket resale platform Viagogo and Stubhub told the BBC that they would continue to sell available tickets for the Oasis tour and that “we are serving a clear consumer need.”

The BBC radio program File on 4 cited examples of British tickets being resold by sellers in countries such as Hawaii, Brazil, Dubai, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Ukraine, often at significantly higher prices than they were originally sold for.