A fan uses a smartphone to access an online ticketing website to purchase tickets for the Oasis “Live ’25” tour. Oasis fans lined up early Saturday to purchase tickets for the highly anticipated reunion tour, but many tickets had already been snapped up by resellers who were charging significantly more than the original ticket prices.

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Oasis fans, many of whom have waited 15 years for the band to reunite, are rushing to secure a spot on next year’s reunion tour after tickets went on sale Saturday, only to be faced with ticket prices many times higher than the band’s current prices.

The band is aware of the exorbitant prices on third-party websites and warns buyers that tickets can only be resold at face value through two online sellers: Ticketmaster and Twickets.

“Tickets appearing on other secondary ticketing sites are either counterfeit or cancelled by the promoters,” the band tweeted on its account on Saturday.

It was the second warning in two days since pre-sales began on Friday.

The British rock band, led by famously feuding brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher, will play 17 concerts in Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin from July 4.

According to The Associated Press, more than 1 million tickets went on sale Saturday morning, with prices starting at just under $100 (£74) and going up to $666 for a package including a pre-show party and merchandise.

However, the face value ticket prices sold through Ticketmaster are not necessarily fixed prices and are subject to change, due to the company’s “dynamic pricing” system, in which prices rise in line with demand. Some tickets on the platform rose to more than quadruple their starting price, with the lowest (standing room) later going for $466 before fees.

As of Saturday afternoon Eastern Time, all performances were sold out. “Check back later as more (tickets) may be released,” read a message on Ticketmaster.

Still, plenty of tickets remained for sale on third-party resale sites like StubHub and Viagogo, with individual tickets selling for more than $7,000 — 70 times their original price — just hours after the band issued its warning to resellers.

At Ticketmaster, fans were standing in long lines and there were problems. Some saw the line disappear suddenly before they could get a ticket.

What is being seen as a fragile and short-lived sibling reunion has only increased fans’ anticipation to see them live – to perhaps catch a whiff of the tension in real life – before Oasis (maybe? definitely?) break up again.

On social media, many have turned to Oasis lyrics and memes to cope with the ticket chaos. One person posted a fake photo of the Ticketmaster site, with a caption joking that Oasis had broken up while they were in line.

Earlier this year, the Justice Department sued Ticketmaster’s owner, Live Nation Entertainment, alleging it had a monopoly on live entertainment. The antitrust lawsuit alleges that Ticketmaster stifles competition and artificially inflates ticket prices through exclusive deals with venues.