Music fans claim they have lost thousands of pounds in an alleged ‘scam’ after trying to snag tickets to some of Manchester’s biggest gigs this summer – including Oasis at Heaton Park and Billie Eilish at Co-op Live.

One victim says he lost £3,500 after believing he’d bought 29 Oasis tickets on behalf of a group of friends and family. The two Heaton Park homecoming weekends for the band came and went without any tickets arriving.

Another said her daughter was left devastated after Billie Eilish tickets, paid for and promised as a Christmas gift, failed to ever show up.

But the seller disputes that there is any scam going on, insisting people have received tickets from him ‘fine’ before, that there was ‘just a huge issue with Oasis ones’, and that people will get their money back.

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