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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Mark Sweney and Rob Davies

UK watchdog threatens Ticketmaster with legal action over way Oasis tickets were sold

A mobile phone user looks at the Oasis reunion ticket news on the Oasis live 25 website
Ticketmaster has made changes to ‘some aspects’ of its ticket sales process but the CMA says they were not sufficient to address its concerns. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

The UK competition watchdog has written to Ticketmaster threatening legal action over the way it sold more than 900,000 tickets for Oasis’s reunion tour, days before the start of what is expected to be the most popular, and profitable, run of gigs in British history.

In March, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published concerns 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 when they went on sale last August.

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