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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Mark Sweney

Ticketmaster may have breached law in pricing Oasis tickets, says CMA

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A screengrab from the Ticketmaster website detailing the misleading standing ticket prices for the Oasis reunion tour, with a picture of Liam and Noel on the left
A screengrab from the Ticketmaster website detailing the misleading standing ticket prices for the Oasis reunion tour. Photograph: PA

The UK competition watchdog has said that 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 that Ticketmaster may have misled fans, some of whom paid more than £350 for tickets with a face value of £150, in the way it priced tickets for the band’s comeback gigs this year.

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