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We wanted to let you know that we will be permitting the sale of LIVE 8 concert tickets on eBay.co.uk. As we do not wish to profit from this event, we have offered to make a donation to the LIVE 8 charity at least equivalent to the fees we collect from the sale of LIVE 8 tickets.
We are allowing the sale of tickets because we believe that people can make up their own minds about what they buy and sell. The reselling of charity concert tickets is not illegal under English law and eBay believes it is a fundamental right for someone to be able to sell something that is theirs whether they paid for it or won it in a competition.
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Everyone wants to make quick hard cash. Not illegal to sell the tickets on but definetely selfish. I would have loved to gone to that gig and did send off 3 texts There are 8 bands I would like to have seen. But I can't complain as I won tix for David Gray the same way for a free gig in Trafalga Sq and put them straight on Ebay with no intention of going (Well he did murder "Say Hello Wave Goodbye")
I understand what your saying stevie but is it because it's for a charity gig?.
If i get 2 free tickets for a film premire & decide to sell them at a high price.Would you still think the same way?
At the end of the day there is no difference.It's just because the word charity is used of all of a sudden it's a bad thing to do.
I am guessing that most people who have got these tickets for sale entered the competition the same way everyone else did - by text message.
They then get the tickets (or at least notification that they will get the tickets).
They suddenly realise that they can earn a mortgage payment for giving up their ticket. Personally, i would watch it on tv!
And to put the money thing into perspective (or number crunching as Private Eye call it)
�49 Million - Amount raised by Red Nose Day 2005
�30 Million - Amount spent on 'spending spree' by Sir Elton John
�12.5 Million - Amount turned down by U2 for letting an advertising company use thier music.
Now there is a sick irony........
Vic, how does providing an example of Elton John's spending mitigate the behaviour of the eBayers?
The U2 example is surely not legitimate - are you seriously suggesting that any artist should be obliged to prostitue their work simply because the money could be used for good?
Here's the address of some people who pay volunteers to carry out medical trials: www.trials4us.co.uk
If you fail to take up the oportunity to earn money which could be used for good causes are you not equally guilty?
I don't quite understand the fuss over this. Bob has been harping on for the last fortnight about Live8 not being about money. Sure, selling your ticket on ebay when it's a "free" event and someone else could have gone instead sucks, but it's not really damaging the make poverty history message. The people selling the tickets are most likely ordinary folks who want to make a bit of cash. The touts who buy up tickets for big events and sell them at extortionate rates are probably not responsible due to the texting system.
The idea that the artists and their reps involved in Live8 would make a personal contribution in acknowledgement of the huge free publicity they were getting was raised last week and seems to have been overlooked/forgotten. Lets face it, the number of people profitting out of live8 goes far beyond the guys selling their tickets for a couple of hundred notes.....
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