Guns N'Roses Fans Battle With Ticket Touts

Tickets for Guns N'Roses' huge gig at Slane Castle on May 27, 2017 went on sale at 9am today, with prices set at €89.50.

But as early as 9.03am, some tickets were going up on Ticketmaster's controversial sister company Seatwave for several times the original asking price and the prices increased as the wait wore on.

The most expensive ticket for general admission was priced at €399 and prices are expected to rise whenever the concert fully sells out (there are around 330 tickets left at the time of writing).

Seatwave is a Ticketmaster company but does not sell tickets directly, rather it facilitates the sale of tickets by third party sellers. People can therefore buy tickets on Ticketmaster at face value and resell at a price of their choosing on Seatwave.

This is not the first time that this problem has occurred for more music fans (nor is it likely to be the last, until action is taken).

In October, Coldplay tickets went on sale through the site, within seconds of selling out on Ticketmaster.

According to independent.ie, one fan was quoted €1,238.97 (including a booking fee of €188.97) for three tickets, priced at €350 each.

Fine Gael TD Noel Rock has urged for legislation to be introduced to block touts from scalping concert-goers in Ireland.

The Slane Castle gig marks the band's grand return to the Co Meath venue since they last played there in 1992.