Ethics of selling Live 8 tickets for profit

mcwarre

Sri not a lawyer. Just read plain English...

Frogling

Hmm, difficult one this. I guess if you decide to sell your tickets and keep the proceeds, you could use the money to help pay off a credit card bill and argue that you are doing your bit towards wiping out debt - your own!

biblejohn

Babbler wrote:

APPARENTLY They are using the money to fund the event and any left over "profit" will go to charity! Thats what the official line is anyway...

Yep, but my point was that the promotors are making more money from the current selling method than if they put them on ebay.

They have had 1.6million txts so far at £1.50 per txt, which if you say they are giving away 72500 tickets, works out at over £330 per ticket already they have got. Theres still another 5 days or more of txting so this will double. Lets say they make £750 per ticket. Theres no way they`d get that from ebay sales.

After they have taken off their expenses, they`ll probably make £500 at least profit per ticket which isnt bad. So, if a lucky ticket winner wants to sell their ticket for £25 on ebay, their "profit" is a drop in the ocean really. Why should the promotors care as long as all the people who got tickets turn up. Surely the more people which turn up at the concert, the more people who will buy the merchandise, drinks, gifts, cds etc... which will all help add to the amount which goes to charity.

silkcutblue

Frogling wrote:

Hmm, difficult one this. I guess if you decide to sell your tickets and keep the proceeds, you could use the money to help pay off a credit card bill and argue that you are doing your bit towards wiping out debt - your own!

Exactly. You can't begin to help others until your own situation is better. We are not all Ghandi/Mother Theresa. :A

*Winks*

-Devil's Advocate

trace-j

burbs wrote:

The way i see it is that if you have something that you want to sell then you should be allowed to sell it.

Anybody winning them and selling them through Ebay would be mental, as a previous poster said Live 8 have a team of researchers trawling though Ebay and other avenues to ensure that these tickets are not sold. Those doing this will be prosecuted.

Prosecuted under what exactly it isn't an offence to resell tickets provided the face value is made known. If it were a criminal offence there wouldn't be any touts!

Despite these strong words from the legal team- would they really waste money pursuing people for breaching the terms and conditions. After all, the monies raised is supposed to be for charity.

What would make me laugh, if those who won via text received a reply saying the reply text is your ticket (a bit like the Orange wednesday thing). What would these winners do then, sell their phones and sim cards?!

At the end of the day, people will be out to profit anyway they can from Live 8. We get dumped on from a great height in this country, there is nothing illegal about resale of tickets, so why not.

cougar_3

Live 8 isn't about raising money - but raising awareness (don't we already know the problem. I think that's a different issue - the whole Live8 thing being pointless I mean.

Since they're not losing out, and they don't want money, SELL!

Sarahsaver

PIctures of starving children sell records don't they


And how many of the artists are of african origin eh? Its another case of the west telling the developing world how to do things, and of course all the artists do it out of the goodness of their own hearts ...yeah right!

I don't care if the tickets are sold on - at least the initial payment went where it should, and if they have more money than sense thats their problem. Ooh and the nasty little moneygrabbing capitalists who sell the tickets in the first place - none of us ever had the same thought LOL

Tojo_Ralph

Sarahsaver wrote:

And how many of the artists are of african origin eh? Its another case of the west telling the developing world how to do things.

What the hell has anyones nationality got to do with anything in a situation like this? :mad:

How many of the "coalition of the coerced" are Iraqi or Afghan? .... I assume you agree that this is a case of the West dictating to the East?

pug_in_a_bed

I think the poster was referring to the current criticism of Bob and co for the lack of black artists in the line up.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4602763.stm

although the american event has a few black artists in, such as stevie wonder (how amazing would that be!)

FruGal_2

it all makes a lot of so much hype anyway