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Speaker 1: In the Brady UK correspondence with us. Now in that heather,

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Speaker 1: did you get your tickets?

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Speaker 2: No, of course not so this was the story of

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Speaker 2: the weekend and it's turned into quite a political storm

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Speaker 2: now Oasis tickets and dynamic pricing Now apparently apps deploy

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Speaker 2: this for hotel prices. Airlines use it when it gets busy,

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Speaker 2: dynamic pricing. It was implemented very quickly over the weekend

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Speaker 2: for Oasis tickets across the UK and Ireland and people

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Speaker 2: ended up paying north of seven hundred and fifty dollars

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Speaker 2: to stand. And the way it works there was a

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Speaker 2: huge queue. I mean there was at one stage eight

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand people in the queue in the UK. I

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Speaker 2: was in the Irish queue. There's two gigs in Krog

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Speaker 2: Park where we play Gaelic football and hurling in Dublin,

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Speaker 2: ninety thousand capacity in that stadium. Two gigs in Dublin.

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Speaker 2: I got onto the app. I'm not even going to

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Speaker 2: mention the name of the people because not to give

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Speaker 2: them any more publicity. I got onto that app with

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Speaker 2: five minutes before the win though opened and I was

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Speaker 2: number three hundred thousand in the Q in Ireland at

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Speaker 2: seven fifty five am on Saturday. Now, Heather, I'm Irish.

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Speaker 2: There's no way I know Ireland on a Saturday morning.

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Speaker 2: There's no way there was three hundred thousand people awake

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Speaker 2: on a Saturday morning in Ireland looking for Oasis tickets.

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Speaker 2: Just not possible. So the end result, anyway is it's

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Speaker 2: developed into a huge political round now about basically the

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Speaker 2: exploitation of fans and this dynamic pricing. The UK government's

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Speaker 2: going to have an investigation and the Irish government is

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Speaker 2: going to have an investigation. But in answer to your question, no,

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Speaker 2: I didn't get tickets, and you know what, it sounds

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Speaker 2: incredibly entitled. I'm going to wait until a week before

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Speaker 2: that gig, and I guarantee if someone will say to me, oh,

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Speaker 2: I've got one at face value because all my mates

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Speaker 2: can't go, that's why my plan.

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Speaker 1: Do you do you believe? Because I was just I

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Speaker 1: was and there's probably not a bad plan, by the way,

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Speaker 1: and I was just reading about this. Apparently these guys

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Speaker 1: who were not naming Voldemort may have breached consumer price

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Speaker 1: laws because they didn't warn people about the dynamic ticket price,

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Speaker 1: and which you apparently have to do. Did you get

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Speaker 1: a warning no.

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Speaker 2: Warning whatsoever, and it's very clever what they do. So

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Speaker 2: you're in this queue and so I give it five

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Speaker 2: minutes and then I went running. I thought, I'm not

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Speaker 2: wasting my Saturday staring at a screen here and the

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Speaker 2: numbers just ticking down every sixty seconds. It went down

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Speaker 2: by ten or twelve. I thought, three hundred thousandth in

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Speaker 2: a queue. This is just ridiculous. So this dynamic pricing,

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Speaker 2: there was no warning about it. So say you did

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Speaker 2: manage to get to the option of buying tickets, then

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Speaker 2: suddenly you're confronted with this dynamic pricing. Oh the one

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty dollars standing ticket. Dynamic pricing means it's

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Speaker 2: now seven hundred and fifty dollars. And of course people panicked,

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Speaker 2: and do you know people will have been saying, oh

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Speaker 2: my god, it's my only chance to see them whack

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Speaker 2: it on a credit card and pay it off month

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Speaker 2: by month. And it's outrageous what went on. I'm really

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Speaker 2: disappointed in Liam and Noel Gallagher, and I consider a

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Speaker 2: NOLA friend. There's been no word from either of them,

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Speaker 2: and nothing worse, nothing annoys me more than seeing working

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Speaker 2: class people exploiting working class.

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Speaker 1: People said, how is the government going to crack down

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Speaker 1: on mobile phone phone TIFs? How do you do that?

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Speaker 2: So the police are saying they can't arrest their way

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Speaker 2: out of this epidemic, and it is now epidemic levels.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know so many people who go to

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Speaker 2: work in London who on a weekly basis are having

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Speaker 2: phones stolen. So you're seeing these guys in hoodies, mostly teenagers,

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Speaker 2: and they're on these electric scooters. People are getting out

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Speaker 2: their phone, they get lost, they're going on maps or whatever,

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Speaker 2: and the phone is whipped out of your hand in seconds. Now,

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Speaker 2: the stats that are out today on this are absolutely shocking.

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Speaker 2: Eighty thousand thefts of mobile phones reported in a year

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Speaker 2: almost and get this, less than one percent result in

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Speaker 2: a police charge. So you can forget about your phone goals.

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Speaker 2: And I'm just going to tell you a little personal story.

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Speaker 2: Friend of mine last Saturday in Soho, Saturday evening in London,

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Speaker 2: three men come up to him, pulled the knife and

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Speaker 2: said hand over your phone. He had the phone open

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Speaker 2: so they don't need the pin code, and I said, well,

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Speaker 2: what happened then he said, well, he said, then very

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Speaker 2: quickly money started going out with my bank account, They

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Speaker 2: got into his bank account, they were spending on his cards.

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Speaker 2: He had a crypto wallet. Now I don't even know

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Speaker 2: what that is, but apparently there's a lot of money

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Speaker 2: in there and they were trying to move his crypto

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Speaker 2: and this all happened inside about thirty minutes of the

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Speaker 2: initial theft. And that's so basically it's extremely organized. But

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Speaker 2: in answer to your question, the UK government are going

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Speaker 2: to call in the tech companies and demand that they

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Speaker 2: put some function to disable the phone so that it

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Speaker 2: can't be sold on afterwards.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So, I mean in the meantime, it feels like

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Speaker 1: what you should be avoiding is putting your credit cards

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Speaker 1: or your crypto wallets, or in any of that kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff on your phone. Right. It needs to be

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Speaker 1: it needs to be even if it's open, people can't

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Speaker 1: get you money.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. And I think my young lad's just gone

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Speaker 2: into London. It's the last day of the school holidays.

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Speaker 2: He's sixteen and he's a big lad. He's six foot four.

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Speaker 2: Him and his mate have gone into London today to

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Speaker 2: go buy T shirts. Apparently the last thing I said

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Speaker 2: to him was do not take your phone out in public.

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Speaker 2: It will go and that that's where we're at. That's

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Speaker 2: where we're at. So and I'm more wary. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I know so many people now it happens in a second.

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Speaker 2: I've heard of people going into fast food takeaways, getting

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Speaker 2: off of bus. We're so accustomed to. Where am I?

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Speaker 2: I'm lost. I don't know where this street is going on.

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Speaker 2: I've just had a text message. You get your phone

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Speaker 2: out and it is gone in less than seconds.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a very good point, Inda, Thank you very much,

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Speaker 1: really appreciating my into Brady UK corresponding.

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