live8 tickets on ebay

[the loon]

Have just been looking at news and live8 tickets are already on ebay

if your a member please take 2 minutes and report these profittears to ebay and request that items are ended using below link

http://cgi1.ebay.co.uk/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll

[Jake]

1 of the guys i work with entered the text lottery for ebay reasons only.
Fortunatly, he did'nt get any!!
I was gagging to get a pair myself....Pink Floyd are on the bill.
Nice to see them live again.
I have'nt seen them in concert since Docklands and Earls Court. Both were brilliant!
Ah well, i'll watch it on tv then.
 8)

[beast5680]

personally i would sell them if i had them if there was someone stupid enough to pay for them
cancelling out countries debt doesnt work anyway as their leaders are corrupt and spend any cash they have on private jets etc

[turtle]

this is the press release from ebay with regard to Live 8 tickets sales

 

  ***LIVE 8 Ticket Sales on eBay.co.uk***  
   
13 June, 2005 | 07:19PM BST


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.

Regards,
The eBay.co.uk Team

[beast5680]

i see on the news they now say they have pulled them

[turtle]

i see on the news they now say they have pulled them

They have indeed

***Message from Doug McCallum: LIVE 8 Ticket Sales***  
   
14 June, 2005 | 07:34PM BST

Dear all,
Today you have made it very clear to us that our previous decision to allow the sale of LIVE 8 tickets on eBay.co.uk was not one that the vast majority of you agreed with. As a result of this clear signal from the Community we have decided to prohibit the resale of LIVE 8 tickets on the site.

Although the resale of tickets is not illegal, we think that this is absolutely the right thing to do. We have listened to the views you expressed on the discussion boards and in the many emails you have sent to us. We shall be working over the next few hours to remove all LIVE 8 ticket listings from the site.

Thanks for taking the time to contact us and make your views heard,

Regards,

Doug McCallum
Managing Director, eBay (UK) Ltd.
On behalf of the whole eBay.co.uk team

[beast5680]

or the fact they were getting lots of bad press made them pull them me thinks

[Guy90]

Can they actually halt a sale because others objected to it. It may be in bad taste but if it's not illegal or against Ebay rules I can't see how they can just pull it.

As the tickets were up for grabs, you just knew some would appear on eBay.

[muddyweb]

They can do what they like Guy...  it's their website.

If they had sufficient feedback that they should be removed, then eBay can disallow them.

[landyman Ash]

Either way im amazing people are so greedy.

If I won some and could not go, why not flog them and offer the money to the charity?

What is wrong with people today????  P***es me off!!!!!!        

[the loon]

Either way im amazing people are so greedy.

If I won some and could not go, why not flog them and offer the money to the charity?

What is wrong with people today????  P***es me off!!!!!!        

I agree totaly with that sentiment but at the end of the day all you have is the word of the seller that ticket cost or % of cost will go to charity.
Its unfortunate that people selling these tickets are asking in some cases up to £800 when basicly they paid £1.50 to send a text.

I know it may sound like I have little faith in the people selling the tickets but basicly there will be little if anything from £800 the sellers are asking going to the actual charity

[landyman Ash]

I think its a case of £800 squid in there pocket.

Ebay should just of kicked them off staright away.

I put a train ticket on there once (dont ask... I was a student...) and they kicked me off as its "non transferable".

Well so are these????  

Could this be a publiscity stunt gone wrong???  I love Ebay but this has really shown them in a bad light.

[muddyweb]

Could this be a publiscity stunt gone wrong???  I love Ebay but this has really shown them in a bad light.

I doubt it... they are always flooded with concert tickets...   one of the many reasons Glastonbury had to make them photo ID only.

I think eBay have acted well in this....  they took an official line initially which left them within the law... then, based on feedback from its members, made the decision to pull the auctions.

It's a tough balance to maintain....

[landyman Ash]

Yes I agree BUT this a gig for a country where pennies go a long way.  There is one thing selling a ticket where a profitable company is involved and a WHOLE new thing where a charity is involved.

In my opinon they are not even similar

[muddyweb]

When I said they were always flooded with concert tickets, I was including charity concerts... there were a few on there for the last big charity event.

eBay have a number of responsibilities to maintain..  to their members, to their legal team and to their shareholders.

There are millions of auctions on eBay, and someone has to make a judgement about which are allowable and which aren't

It is easy to sit back and say what should and shouldn't be allowed from a distance, but the issues are inevitably more complex....    sounds similar to another recent discussion in the bar  :?

[landyman Ash]

Hmmm, I suppose so.  They have to draw a line and I suppose they have to stick to that.

With all the poublicity of Live8 I just feel ebay (and the organisers of Live8) should of planned for this and put never let it happen.

[xmob]

I'm NOT with eBay on this one.

Personally, I'm not interested in the concert, but my best mate is 'cos he found out Pink Floyd are to play.  He REALLY was going to pay £750 for some tickets, but eBay pulled the listing before he could complete the transaction.

You have to consider this:
The sale of charity concert tickets doesn't go against eBays normal policies
The sale of tickets won in a raffle is not illegal
NO money from ticket sales (wins) is going to charity, the concert is to raise awareness only.

I didn't see eBay stopping people selling all the charity wrist bands that they were selling at inflated prices.  My son wanted one of the football/nike anti-racism ones.  If you could find any in normal shops (impossible!) they cost £1.  On eBay some where fetching £20+.  I emailed many sellers asking if the extra cash was going to the charity, not one replid.

[lowey]

I hope when all the profiteering ebayers selling their live aid tickets look in a mirror at their own faces they do not see their own face but that of a starving fly infested African child with a bloated belly begging for food.

Perhaps they drink Horlicks so that they can sleep at night.

Hope they never have to suffer like those children are suffering, it makes me so angry but very sad that this is the extent of civilised human nature & freewill at large.

SHAME ON THEM  (sorry for shouting) rant mode off now.