eBay should not ban ticket sales

Your wrong. Live events should not be subject to free market consumerism. Fans lose out and scummy touts profit. What is the point????

Maybe you should have donated the tickets to your local Oxfam for them to sell.

if ebay told people they had to sell the tickets at face value (plus booking fees for arguments sake) it would be fine, what I don't like is people who are only buying tickets (or games consoles etc.) to sell them for a ridiculous markup and never had any intention of actually going to the gigs/festivals in the first place, if all places did the same as Ebay, or forced people to sell tickets at Face Value, there would be less of this, and more people who actually enjoy the music getting to the gigs for a fair price.

"yes I agree people should be aloud to buy tickets and sell tickets on ebay but at sensible prices"

... and what is a sensible price? Let's say the ticket has a face value of £30. You are desperate for a ticket but are only willing to pay £50 and that seems sensible to you. I am desperate for a ticket and can afford to pay £120 and that seems sensible to me.

I don't believe that any of these Live 8 concerts help the starving people in Africa, as someone else has said the money goes to buy some despotic African dictator a new jet, a fleet of Maybachs, or to build his palace. Ever heard of Robert Mugape? Or King Mswati?

Dear Dear Dale, you are sadly delusional! People are not too lazy to buy the tickets in the first place; they just don't get a chance because the touts snap them all up as soon as they come on sale.
Please refer to the "Ticket touts are bottom feeding scum" gripe to see what I mean!

yes I agree people should be aloud to buy tickets and sell tickets on ebay but at sensible prices
touting Is away of life .for people who are to lazy to buy them at the right time In the first place
as long as they keep selling the blue pill on ebay at the right price I don't give a flying f..k ?

I agree people should be allowed to sell tickets on Ebay but at the end of the day, when you have greedy idiots who try to sell a £100 ticket for £2000!! It says it all. I feel even more sorry for the silly beggar that buys them at at that price

eBay pretty much does as it likes and there's not much you can do about it. If they want to ban something suck as ticket sales then they can - go elsewhere.

well in this instance, well done Ebay in stopping the sell of Live 8 tickets. You think they would have learnt the first time around that the money goes to heads of those undeveloped countries so they can buy weapons to keep killing their own people with! So well done Ebay on not helping with the slaughter of thousands of lives in Africa!

Geldope is a blatant egotist plain and simple.
He had a couple of half decent hits a few decades ago, which is more than you can say for bonehead bono and U2, another bunch of hopeles egotists jumping on the political and Charity bandwagon as they age.

Having said that though, Geldorfs tv series on africa is quite interesting, with some decent historical fact thrown in, particularly regarding the africans being their own slavemasters along with the arabs. At least his researcher has all her marbles.

Well said Mark!!!!

Your right mairtin, I'm so bitter that I wish I could wear sun glasses all the time...even inside during winter (so I can be really 'cool')And my ego is soooo massive due to my huge consumption of cocaine...so much cocaine that I feel the need to strut around on stage and impose my views on politics,religon and morals to those 'poor', 'ordinary' people who have to work for a living! Oh yes!! Your right.I think giving to charity is a great thing to do if you strongly want to help...the only problem I have is people who advitise the fact and enjoy telling other people how much great work they do for other people..self publicising! just goes to show how low on self esteem and how insecure these people really are! 'Look at me' 'See how great I am..see how much money I make and can give away...yeah really great'
I'm afraid you are guilty my friend of being more intrested in going on about 'who my favourite pop bands are' rather than sorting out the very real problems that millions of people have to suffer. It's just pathetic...going on about 'music' or 'stars', are you so stuck in your playground mentality that you think I actually care what you or anyone thinks about my views on a few poncey rock stars? Do you think some starving person in the middle of Sudan or Congo actually gives a damn about 'who's the best band'? GROW UP! Also your comments on e-bay also show your true nature...shame!