ebay shuts down Live8 auctions by rhuttner

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ebay shuts down Live8 auctions

POSTED BY: RHUTTNER
UPDATED: Thursday, June 16, 2005 06:38
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 4:40 AM

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/15/ebay_live8_givesin/

Maybe we should try to get the screening listings shut down using this as a precedence.

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Thursday, June 16, 2005 6:38 AM

ASTRAGYNIA

It's not the same thing - Live8 is for charity, and so for people to profit off of it is far more despicable because they are profitting off of others' volunteer work, and some of the money being paid for those tickets would likely otherwise have gone to charity. Also, the article mentions that many of the people selling Live8 tickets had very high asking prices, whereas from what I've heard, the Serenity scalpers have mostly just asked for the price they paid and watched the bidding go up.

And besides, Browncoats don't have Geldof's publicity-power to cause a large-scale boycott of ebay. Self-interest makes the 'verse go 'round.

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