Oasis fans may have been misled into buying "platinum" tickets that did not provide any benefits during their reunion tour.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is now launching an investigation into the ticket seller Ticketmaster after many have reacted to the unreasonable costs of certain tickets to the Britpop band's performances.
Fans who tried to buy tickets through official websites have testified that prices skyrocketed during the sale, while some tickets went for thousands of pounds on unofficial resale sites.
The Competition Authority fears that the company may have breached consumer protection law by selling platinum tickets at a high price "without disclosing that they did not offer any additional benefits and were often located in the same area of the arena as regular tickets".
Ticketmaster is reported to have sold over 900,000 tickets to the performances in the UK and Ireland, with the premiere on July 4 in Cardiff.
