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EBay U.K. has banned the sale of tickets to the London Live 8, a megaconcert to raise awareness of African poverty, following pressure from musician Bob Geldof and an online campaign to sabotage the auctions.

Tickets for the concert were a hot item on eBay until activists wrecked auctions and Geldof blasted ticket sales as profiteering from misery.

Tickets were allocated Monday via an SMS lottery. More than 2 million text messages were entered, at a cost of 1.5 pounds ($2.70) each, to join the lottery for 133,000 tickets.

Some winners immediately listed tickets on eBay, and some sold for more than 2,000 pounds ($3,600).

On Tuesday, outraged eBay members began flooding the ticket auctions with fake bids that drove prices up to 10 million pounds ($18 million). The phony bids made the sale of tickets impossible, as almost every bid was fraudulent.

Some eBay members used their own accounts, possibly jeopardizing their hard-earned eBay ratings.

Others opened new accounts to place fake bids, including one called live8legalteam, prompting speculation that the bidding was organized by Live 8 itself.

EBay also came under fire from organizer Geldof, a musician best known for his 1985 Live Aid African famine-relief benefit concert that raised more than $200 million.

Geldof blasted eBay for allowing people to sell the free tickets.

On Tuesday, eBay banned all ticket sales.

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Peter wrote: Well, now that our integrity is gone, what shall we auction off next? See, I've got this lovely ocean-front property on the sunny south coast of Saskatchewan....  Prog-bay

I've got Maani's TV!!

Goes to the highest bidder!!!!

Well, now that our integrity is gone, what shall we auction off next?

See, I've got this lovely ocean-front property on the sunny south coast of Saskatchewan....

 Prog-bay

Whores!

Sorry I meant to write hoarse!

MAANI WROTE:

Indeed, also as stated, if the buyer(s) truly want(s) to go, and is/are willing to pay for a ticket that s/he knows was free, how can any of you justify having anything to say about that?  Have you considered how you would feel if the shoe was on the other foot?  Would you want others telling you what you should or shouldn't do with your money, or calling you names for engaging in this type of transaction?

Whether the concert is for charity , and the ticket was free or not , whether it is a private-for-profit concert is totally irrelevant. You might have missed my earlier post , Maani, but not only is the ticket scalping a horrendous and vile activity , but the whole distribution system is awry right from the start and mainly because of the scalping of ticket.

Who in his right mind would pay ten times the price of a ticket , if he had a proper chance at obtaining them if the sales were correctly handled and fair? Those people not having tickets have no choice (except the one of not going to the concert) but to pay exhorbitant prices. The fact is that scalping is robbery or extortion and this should be a crime.

This fact alone should suffice to prohibit this behaviour on the site. This site claims to be moral ..... after all.....

Again , I am a bit mystified by a minister's attitude in such a debate.

Lets all of us declare these posts "Spam" and hhave some democracy in action here!

Please vote here.

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8192&a mp;PN=1&TPN=1

Tony:

You said, "He talks about freedom of speech but I say make an exception-after all you have deleted posts that use "profanity" Change the rules to read......"and anything else that the admin group deem inappropriate.""

Have you ever read Orwell's Animal Farm?  Because your statement is practically a direct quote from the book.  I simply cannot believe that this is the road you want to go down...  I never expected Orwellian thinking from you.

Peace.