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Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Up for sale on Ebay - the last shreds of human dignity

How ironic is it that a concert aimed at raising awareness of the pitfalls of greed and exploitation on a global scale is now falling prey to...greed and exploitation on a global scale.

Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof has condemned as "sick profiteering" the sale of free charity concert tickets on auction Web site eBay.

Tickets to the star-studded London show, which aims to pressure world leaders into fighting poverty, were given away to the winners of a text lottery. But they immediately started appearing on eBay for hundreds of pounds.

Geldof branded the site an "electronic pimp" and called for a worldwide boycott.


Full article

Yes, it's legal. Yes, we sort of expect it to happen. But come on folks. We can do better than that. This is the same sort of mentality that has people going through their family snapshots looking to see if there's a picture of their sister that they can put up on a pay-per-download site.

Believe it or not, the world will not come to a screetching halt if we as a people do not haul of every last piece of our lives that isn't nailed down to the floor out into our particular yard sale to see if we can make a few bucks off of it.

In other words, just because someone will buy it doesn't mean you have to sell it to them. Just say no.

Update 6.16.05: Bowing to overwhelming pressure and waves of pissed-off fans flooding the site with ridiculously high bids and false offers of tickets (to prevent sales and to confuse ticket buyers) Ebay has canned the sale of Live 8 tickets. Woohoooo!


Posted at 01:58 pm by sonipitts

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