people selling the L8 tickets on Ebay

[MackemX]

it was obviously going to happen and I'm no surprised Ebay has allowed it to go on. The thing that pised me off was the fact they said they would donate something towards it. I don't know exactly what they are supposedly donating but if they had a heart then they would give everything gained from it directly to the cause such as listing fees and final value fees

somebody has upped the bid past £10,000 in the link below to spoil it but it's looking like you can get at least £200 for a pair

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1307&item=653958881

shame, none of the greedy fuckers listing them on Ebay haven't mentioned they will donate a percentage of the sale to the cause. That may even get them a bigger interest (after all, there is a point behind the concert) and a higher bid if they had the ******* sense instead of being blinded by greed

[waheed]

Not on Ebay anymore. The item has been removed. Click on the link to see for yourself

[MackemX]

Not on Ebay anymore. The item has been removed. Click on the link to see for yourself

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1307&item=6539588815

missed off the 5

[MackemX]

these types of auctions are being removed from Ebay now 8)

they shouldn't have been allowed in the first place but Ebay will be Ebay!

[Cobra]

Are they doing what I think they're doing? They've bought tickets to a charity concert, waited until they officially sell out and they're flogging them for a profit?

If so, that's just not right. That's as bad as pirating the Comic Relief DVD of Little Britain or the sadist who put the "s" in "lisp".

[MackemX]

tickets were free, well sort of as you had to text to a number to be put into a draw or something. So as the text wasn't free then the ticket wasn't free but still very very cheap and it also partially went to the charity

we had a Radio 1 concert here recently
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wear/content/articles/2005/05/08/big_weekend_feature.shtml

that also had free tickets that people queued hours for at the local civic centre. Within hours they were on Ebay and some went for over £100

[BJ_M]

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050614/ebay_live_8.html?.v=1

Internet Auction Site EBay Withdraws Tickets for Live 8 Concert After Criticism From Bob Geldof

LONDON (AP) -- EBay Inc. said Tuesday it will stop posters from selling tickets for the Live 8 concert on July 2.

Tickets for the much-sought-after show, intended to raise the profile of poverty in Africa, were being sold for inflated prices on eBay, angering concert organizer Bob Geldof. The musician urged a boycott of the auctioneer, accusing it of "sick profiteering."

EBay managing director Doug McCallum said the company had decided to take the tickets down.

"The bottom line is that we've listened carefully to our customers over the last few days. Overwhelmingly the voice is that they would like us to take down the listing, so we are going to do our best to do that," McCallum told Britain's ITV television.

More than 2 million people applied by text message for the 150,000 tickets to the concert in London's Hyde Park in what The Guinness Book of World Records said was the largest text-message lottery in history.

Tickets began appearing on eBay shortly after recipients began learning by text that they had been successful.

More than 100 pairs of tickets had been listed by early Tuesday and some had attracted bids of up to $1,800.

"It is completely against the interests of the poor. The people who are selling these tickets on Web sites are miserable wretches who are capitalizing on people's misery," Geldof said.

EBay said reselling charity concert tickets was not illegal under British law.

Geldof said eBay's decision to allow the listing of the tickets in the first place had been "a sort of example of corporate arrogance that it thought it could operate outside the morality of its audience."

"I am glad it's stopped and well done for taking them down but it was despicable and they should have thought about it before they did this," Geldof told Sky News.

The $5.4 million raised by the ticket lottery will go toward the Prince's Trust, a youth charity established by Prince Charles and to Help A London Child, which campaigns to improve children's mental health, as well as on materials for the concert.

Live 8 agreed to donate to the Prince's Trust in return for the cancellation of Party in the Park, the Prince's Trust's annual concert in Hyde Park.

Other Live 8 concerts on July 2 will be held in Paris, Berlin, Rome and Philadelphia.

[MackemX]

Geldof said eBay's decision to allow the listing of the tickets in the first place had been "a sort of example of corporate arrogance that it thought it could operate outside the morality of its audience."

"I am glad it's stopped and well done for taking them down but it was despicable and they should have thought about it before they did this," Geldof told Sky News.

well said that man 8) (Geldof that is but thanks for the info BJ_M )

[BJ_M]

except he should not blame ebay -- they don't check every listing before it is listed and they would have no way to know unless someone complained - and as they said - it was not a illegal listing ....

[MackemX]

surely they would have known though seeing as it's not the first time and only recently made the news here last month regarding the above Radio 1 show. They just saw the $'s signs and publicity I bet but who am I to say that :P

did they only offer a donation once the issue had been raised?

are ebay top dogs really that greedy to claim a few £1,000 (if that) in commision and listing fees?

[zzyzzx]

I don't understand why anyone would have a problem with eBaying these tickets.

[BJ_M]

well they just anounced the canada event for this in my town ..