U2 tickets are already being sold for €900 despite not going on sale until tomorrow, Monday the 16th of January.
The band announced their major tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of Joshua Tree would hit Ireland’s Croke Park on July 22, 2017.
Tickets will go on sale tomorrow from 9am and price start from €39.05 to €186 – however, some fans have got their hands on tickets before anyone else.
Black market: Tickets for U2’s gig have gone on sale on the black market and Seatwave | VIPIRELAND.COM
A number of tickets have become available on official and black market websites last week after diehard fans with access to pre-sale tickets chose to sell them on for a profit.
According to the Irish Independent, legions of fans of splashed the cash to guarantee their places at the huge gig.
Fans who subscribed to U2’s official website were granted access to a pre-sale ticket portal last Wednesday where an annual subscription costs $50 [€47.]
Overpriced: Some tickets were being sold over up to 13 times the face value | VIPIRELAND.COM
Seatwave, part of the Ticketmaster company that allows people to sell on genuine tickets bought, was advertising 650 tickets for sale last night with pair of tickets for the standing section was for sale at €2,070 this weekend – thirteen times face value.
A spokesperson for the company said that Seatwave doesn’t have control over setting ticket prices, that it’s the seller who decides.
“The thing about Seatwave is that it is a safe and secure market so tickets would be genuine,” they said.
“The ticket prices are set by the seller, which in this instance is not Ticketmaster, but that price may not necessarily be secured by the seller.
“Ticketmaster is just facilitating the sale.”
