When I said...
in my 'Three Things' post earlier this month that human stupidity scared me, I should have said something about human greed and selfishness.
As I have had cause to say before, how utterly predictable, how utterly depressing.
Live 8 show ticket bids 'obscene'
People selling [their FREE] Live 8 tickets on the auction site eBay have been criticised by a group helping to organise the Scottish concert with Bob Geldof. Scores of pairs of tickets have already been put up on the site for the London show on the 2 July, with some pairs being offered for £1,000. But The Hunter Foundation urged sellers to withdraw the lots and return any profits to Live 8. Hunter Foundation chief executive Ewan Hunter called the situation "obscene".
'Free market'
"We would urge anyone selling Live8 tickets on eBay, or anywhere else for that matter, to withdraw them immediately," he said. "If you can't go, return your tickets to Live 8, if you see them being sold, don't bid, we implore you." More than two million text entries were sent in the competition to win tickets for the London leg of Live 8. The deadline for pop fans to apply for tickets for the Hyde Park show to fight African poverty expired at midnight on Sunday. Meanwhile, phone lines for a similar text competition for tickets to a second concert in Edinburgh on 6 July opened at 0800 BST. A spokeswoman for eBay said: "The reselling of charity concert tickets is not illegal under UK law, so Live 8 tickets are allowed to be resold on ebay.co.uk. "We have offered to make a donation to the Live 8 organisers at least equivalent to the fees we collect from the sale of Live 8 tickets. "We are allowing the tickets because we live in a free market where people can make up their own minds about what they would like to buy and sell."
As I have had cause to say before, how utterly predictable, how utterly depressing.
Live 8 show ticket bids 'obscene'
People selling [their FREE] Live 8 tickets on the auction site eBay have been criticised by a group helping to organise the Scottish concert with Bob Geldof. Scores of pairs of tickets have already been put up on the site for the London show on the 2 July, with some pairs being offered for £1,000. But The Hunter Foundation urged sellers to withdraw the lots and return any profits to Live 8. Hunter Foundation chief executive Ewan Hunter called the situation "obscene".
'Free market'
"We would urge anyone selling Live8 tickets on eBay, or anywhere else for that matter, to withdraw them immediately," he said. "If you can't go, return your tickets to Live 8, if you see them being sold, don't bid, we implore you." More than two million text entries were sent in the competition to win tickets for the London leg of Live 8. The deadline for pop fans to apply for tickets for the Hyde Park show to fight African poverty expired at midnight on Sunday. Meanwhile, phone lines for a similar text competition for tickets to a second concert in Edinburgh on 6 July opened at 0800 BST. A spokeswoman for eBay said: "The reselling of charity concert tickets is not illegal under UK law, so Live 8 tickets are allowed to be resold on ebay.co.uk. "We have offered to make a donation to the Live 8 organisers at least equivalent to the fees we collect from the sale of Live 8 tickets. "We are allowing the tickets because we live in a free market where people can make up their own minds about what they would like to buy and sell."
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