Fans hoping to secure tickets for the Oasis reunion tour faced prices rising as much as 140 per cent.
Some reported costs had more than doubled from £148 to £355 on Ticketmaster when the sale went live.
Responding to one fan who told Gallagher on X that he “didn’t expect them to rip the fans off as much as they have done”, the singer simply wrote: “Shutup [sic].”
Dynamic pricing furore
The band insisted it did not know dynamic pricing would be used. They said that, while their management agreed to surge pricing being used to try to keep general ticket pricing down and reduce ticket touting, they accepted that “the execution of the plan failed to meet expectations”.
The furore led the competition watchdog to launch an investigation to assess whether the ticketing platform, Ticketmaster, might have breached consumer protection law by not warning its customers of dynamic pricing.
Meanwhile, other fans were left angry and empty-handed after waiting unsuccessfully in an online queue for hours to buy tickets.
It is thought that 14 million fans logged on to secure tickets, with many who had joined the Ticketmaster queues in the early hours of the morning still waiting hours later.
The band, who have not performed since 2009, announced the reunion tour in August to great fanfare.