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<br>Oasis fans desperately scrambling for reunion tour tickets took to social media this morning to share exasperated memes as they languish in endless queues - or despair over crashing ticket websites.<br><br>Some 14 million users are expected to try for a chance at 1.4 million tickets on Saturday, giving slim hopes of securing a date, and with sites already fraught with issues.<br><br>Fans have reported seeing messages of 'website not found' on TicketMaster, with others say they have seen an 'Error 503' which usually indicates a webpage is unable to handle any more connections. <br><br>Ticketmaster told MailOnline the site is working and the queue still 'moving along', advising fans to hold their place in line to avoid missing out.<br><br>The tickets for the Irish gigs went live at 8am BTS with the passes for the UK shows going live at 9am - with bookmakers putting the odds of landing one of the 1.4million tickets at just 14/1. <br><br>Passing the time, some went online to vent their frustration - or take a cheap shot at devotees counting down their place in online queues.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Going on to Ticketmaster on Saturday morning for Oasis tickets. pic.twitter.com/qr74HFZxfK<br><br>— The Ricky Gervais Clips (@gervaisclips) August 27, 2024<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Memes focused mostly on the outrage surrounding the long wait on various ticket selling websites as fans edged little by little through lengthy queues.<br><br>Some also joked that a huge queue was 'the most British thing' - as one shared a photo of Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield during 'queuegate', when the pair faced allegations they had 'jumped the queue' to see the late Queen lying in state.<br><br><br><br>Read More<br><br>I'm one of the lucky 1.4 million fans who got an Oasis ticket - and I only know Wonderwall!<br><br><br>Several popular tickets sites have reported outages from 8am this morning, when the first tickets for Croke Park went on sale.<br><br>And 'Error 503', 'Shambles' and 'Crashed' all began trending on Twitter/X in the United Kingdom this morning. <br><br>Ticketmaster outages reported in the last 24 hours spiked as the first fans logged on.<br><br>Reports shot past 4,000 just after the hour, having sat at around zero through Friday into Saturday.<br><br>The site started adding users to a queue to get into the website, citing the 'many fans currently using our site'.<br><br>Responding to complaints on Twitter/X, Ticketmaster advised fans on how to limit the likelihood of a crash.<br><br>Rory from London joked on Twitter/X: 'This Oasis situation is dumb. It should be a queue at Wembley Stadium. Overnight. True test of dedication. Like what we had to do for the FA Cup final in 1997. <br><br>'All this internet wizardry is unjust, it favours the drips. Got people sending me pics of computer screens like they work at NASA, what chance have I got?'<br><br>Another user hit back: 'Just say you didnt get tickets, it's easier.' <br><br>The tickets for the Irish gigs went live at 8am BTS with the passes for the UK shows going live at 9am - with bookmakers putting the odds of landing one of the 1.4million tickets at just 14/1. <br><br>Due to the problems, TicketMaster has implemented a queue system to enter the site.<br><br>Heartbroken fans have been messaging MailOnline following the repeated tech failures which they have labelled a 'shambles'. <br><br>Lindsey Cook said she was 'gutted' as she was first place in the queue before they received an error message.<br><br>Melanie got up at 2.30am in the US to buy tickets but was left bitterly disappointed, adding: 'When I got to one in the queue for Edinburgh, it told me I was being moved into the page to shop for tickets, but then it just dumped me back to the start, asking if I wanted to join the waiting room. <br><br>'When I tried rejoining the waiting room, it kept giving me errors—bad gateway. This is ridiculous, as Ticketmaster's entire value proposition is selling tickets for high-volume events.'<br><br>A spokesperson for Ticketmaster told MailOnline: 'The queue is moving along as fans buy tickets. <br><br>'As anticipated, millions of fans are accessing our site so have been placed in a queue. <br><br>'Fans are advised to hold their place in line, make sure they're only using one tab, clear cookies, and ensure they aren't using any VPN software on their device.' <br><br>Manchester born Abby Hardman said she and her sister are on holiday and Ticketmaster kept blocking them and calling them bots, adding: 'There should be a way this is avoided as it's not a fair game otherwise!' <br><br>Chloe Spence said she was been left 'extremely angered' after she was kicked off Ticketmaster while number 200,000 in the queue. <br><br>Susan Miles said: 'Been trying to log in to my TicketMaster account since 8.10am. Not happening.'<br><br>Marlie Duff said: 'I woke up early to be ready and when a waiting room dropped I pressed join and it crashed and I got kicked out and then I joined a queue to get into the website and when it finally loaded it crashed and I got kicked out of that too.' <br><br>Veronica said: 'I logged on at 5.30am as my son really wants to go and see them. Count down was on and at 8.52 error came up and now I can't even log into the site.' <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Noel and Liam Gallagher proved they had buried the hatchet on their 15-year feud as they met up this summer to pose for a photo together to mark Oasis' comeback tour<br><br>Matthew McKeown said: 'Absolute shambles of a ticket sale! Sat waiting to join the queue for half an hour, only for the page to load and then crash, before then telling me that the website thinks I'm a bot?<br><br>'You than have to log in on another device, to be placed right back at the start, queue for the website to then queue for the tickets.'  <br><br>Olivia Sebastianelli said: 'I was on super early this morning. Managed to join the queue and while it was calculating the people ahead of me, the website crashed and I couldn't get back onto the site. <br><br><br><br>Read More<br><br><br>BREAKING NEWS<br><br>First lucky Oasis fans get hands on Dublin tickets but thousands distraught as Ticketmaster CRASHES<br><br><br>'After what feels like forever trying to get it to load i am back in the queue , only now i have 128,004 people ahead of me. <br><br>'So despite being early and getting on the site and in a queue early, Ticketmaster lost me my place in the queue and its now looking unlikely i will get tickets.' <br><br>Liam Francis said: 'Was in the queue for over an hour and then I finally was told I was being transferred to the TicketMaster site but instead I was transferred to a page saying I was a bot and now I can't even access the queue. <br><br>'It just keeps taking me to the same page.' <br><br>People, who said they'd been sitting at their computer all night, were getting 'something went wrong' messages.<br><br>One woman said: 'Is anybody else getting this on TicketMaster while trying for Oasis tickets?' She tagged TicketMaster Ireland in the hopes of getting an answer.<br><br>Oasis fans were holding their breath as they wait for ticket sales to open today - as 14 million vie for passes in what is expected to be a Ticketmaster bloodbath.<br><br>The band's devotees have been frantic since the Slide Away stars announced their reunion tour on Tuesday - following 15 years of war between Noel and Liam Gallagher.<br><br>The 14-show run will go from July 4 to August 17, kicking off at Cardiff's Principality Stadium before the brothers pack out Heaton Park in Manchester, Wembley in London, Murrayfield in Edinburgh and Croke Park in Dublin.<br><br>Last night the lucky few who managed to get a successful pre-sale code battled to see the 90s group as the first tickets went on sale at 7pm yesterday.<br><br><br><br><br>Bookmakers putting the odds of landing one of the 1.4million tickets at just 14/1<br><br><br><br><br><br>A graph showing the reported outages on TicketMaster show a massive spike this morning<br><br><br><br><br><br>Some users have been reporting their accounts on Ticketmaster have been suspended<br><br><br><br><br><br>The platform is the main provider selling the hotly-anticipated tickets but users are reporting constant crashes as thousands of fans have been unable to access the queue<br><br><br><br><br><br>TicketMaster appears to be blocking some users it claims are bots<br><br><br><br><br><br>Due to the problems, TicketMaster has implemented a queue system to enter the site<br><br><br><br><br><br>The 1996 Oasis gigs at Knebworth saw the largest ever demand for gig tickets in UK history<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>But within minutes of the permits going live they were being flogged for more than £10,000 by touts - with experts finding 80 tickets hoping to make a staggering £200,000 up for sale within 20 minutes of the presale.<br><br>Today's passes for next summer's shows in the UK went live at 9am - with bookmakers putting the odds of landing one of the 1.4million tickets at just 14/1.<br><br>This means desperate fans only have a seven per cent chance of confirming their place at a gig, according to Betfair.<br><br>Mobile Network Three has estimated that a staggering 36.2 million devices will tune in to the Oasis sale this morning, with each fan trying their luck on an average of 2.6 devices to maximise their chances.<br><br>In a survey of 500 UK Oasis fans, 68 per cent said they would try for the chance to see their favourite band next summer after the warring brothers announced that 'the guns have fallen silent'.<br><br>Tickets that were sold in the pre-sale are now being flogged for well over £6,000 each for the gig at London's Wembley Stadium. Others, for hospitality clubs, can be found at a stunning £10,578 for two people.<br><br>This is despite the most expensive ticket initially being up for grabs for £506.25 - with gigs in the capital starting at £74.25.<br><br><br><br><br>Fans have reported seeing messages of 'website not found' on TicketMaster, with others say they have seen an 'Error 503'<br><br><br><br><br><br>Oasis devotees have been preparing an army of screens and accounts to try give them the best chance of getting to the front of the queue but IT issues are now causing mayhem<br><br><br><br><br><br>Four per cent of the UK population applied for tickets to see Oasis at Knebworth in 1996<br><br><br><br><br><br>Fans were already having issues with snagging tickets to the Irish shows<br><br><br><br><br><br>Group portrait of Oasis at Nomad Studios in Manchester in 1993. Pictured left to right: Paul Arthurs (aka Bonehead), Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, Tony McCarroll, Paul McGuigan<br><br>The band last night added their condemnation as they blasted the brazen money-grabbers - saying that their tickets will be canceled by promoters.<br><br>Posting on X, they said: 'We have noticed people attempting to sell tickets on the secondary market since the start of the pre-sale.<br><br><br><br>Read More<br><br>Ticketmaster 'bloodbath' begins: Thousands distraught as website crashes for Oasis reunion tour<br><br><br>'Please note, tickets can ONLY be resold, at face value, via Ticketmaster and Twickets.<br><br>'Tickets sold in breach of the terms and conditions will be canceled by the promoters.'<br><br>Speaking to MailOnline, Adam Webb of FanFair Alliance - a group opposing 'industrial scale' secondary ticketing -said:  [https://learning.smkn1jenpo.sch.id/url/TOTO1000/ porno jepang] 'Within 20 minutes of tonight's Oasis pre-sale, we found individual touts listing up to 80 tickets each on viagogo - hoping to make eye-watering profits of almost £200,000.<br><br>'This is money being gouged from fans, syphoned away from the UK economy, and washed through the coffers of overseas websites.<br><br>'This kind of consumer exploitation can only be reigned in by the Government. The only solution is to outlaw resale of tickets for profit.'<br><br>A consumer law expert further warned against buying up resell tickets - saying that even those that are not scams could be cancelled.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Lisa Webb, of Which?, said: 'Oasis fans are understandably eager to snap up tickets to the reunion tour, but we'd strongly advise against buying any of the resale tickets currently popping up online at inflated prices.<br><br><br><br>Read More<br><br>Oasis goes to war with the ticket touts: Band sends warning as scalpers list tickets for £6,000<br><br><br>'Not only is there a chance that some of these listings could be scam attempts, but even legitimate tickets could be cancelled, rendering them invalid, if they are sold outside of the official resale platforms or at above face value.<br><br>'Resale tickets should only be listed on the official resale platforms, Twickets or Ticketmaster Fan-to-Fan exchange, and at no more than the price that was paid (its face value plus booking fees) originally.<br><br>'If you buy through the official seller you'll be entitled to a refund if the show is cancelled but if you buy through a secondary ticket seller, you may not get your money back.<br><br>'We'd also recommend paying using your credit card if the tickets cost more than £100, or by PayPal, which also offers an extra layer of protection provided you choose 'paying for an item or service' rather than 'sending to a friend.'<br><br>Tickets on Stubhub are being sold for more than £6,300 - while others on Viagogo appear to be up for grabs thousands of pounds.<br><br><br><br><br>Oasis posted that tickets were on sale at 8am<br><br><br><br><br><br>Others couldn't believe the sheer amount of people trying for tickets <br><br>One angry fan, Dean Smith, raged at 'low lives' who are selling them for stupid prices.<br><br>Another, Daire Tully, added: 'Was always going to happen. Missed out on the presale.<br><br><br><br>Read More<br><br><br>BREAKING NEWS<br><br>Pre-sale Supernova! Ecstatic Oasis fans become the first people in the UK to purchase tickets<br><br><br>'Heartbreaking to see Oasis tickets being sold at multiples of the face value before they've even gone on general sale.'<br><br>Liam and Noel Gallagher confirmed Oasis's long-awaited reunion with a worldwide tour in 2025 on Tuesday, saying: 'The great wait is over.'<br><br>The Britpop band, who split nearly 15 years ago and released their chart-topping album Definitely Maybe around three [https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/?s=decades decades] ago, announced the series of dates will kick off at Cardiff's Principality Stadium.<br><br>Noel, 57, quit the Manchester rock group on August 28 2009, saying he 'simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer'.<br><br>Fans have been pleading with the brothers to regroup since they disbanded, prompted by a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris.<br><br>Reunion rumours have intensified recently after they teased an announcement for 8am on Tuesday, and reports that the feuding brothers were ending their disagreement.<br><br><br><br><br>Fans across the country have been reporting issues with the website<br><br><br><br><br><br>Oasis reunion tour tickets are listed for over 6,000 pounds on secondary ticket site StubHub<br><br><br><br><br><br>Oasis reunion tour tickets are listed for over 3,000 pounds on secondary ticket site Viagogo<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Liam Gallagher of Oasis performs on stage at Glastonbury in 1994<br><br><br><br><br><br>Fans heading to [https://lerablog.org/?s=Wembley Wembley] will end up paying more with standing tickets costing £151.25 <br><br><br><br><br><br>Industry insiders have also claimed that original guitarist Bonehead - real name Paul Arthurs (pictured in 1996) - is 'confirmed' for the tour and 'ecstatic' that the band is back together<br><br>Confirming the Oasis Live 25 tour, they said: 'The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.'<br><br>As they battled to get the first passes last night, nostalgia-merchants posted photos as they waited behind thousands of others. Those who were successful proudly showed off their tickets as they became the first triumphant fans to be able to look forward to the shows.<br><br>