EBAY is destroying live music and is funding ticket touts.

06/03/2009 by The Daily Male.

Today I tried to get tickets for the vFestival concert. I logged on to the various web sites with tickets but by the time I was able to get a connection the event has sold out. Over 100,000 tickets gone in under 2 hours. You would think this is a good thing, all these people buying tickets for a live music event, but the truth is most of these tickets are sold to touts and profiteers who have no intention of going to the venue but will instead re-sell the tickets at over inflated prices to the genuine music fans. This is all made possible by EBAY, within seconds of the sell out EBAY was flooded with sales of vFestival tickets. Are we to believe that all these people have suddenly found out they can’t go seconds after buying the ticket, of course not. They are all touts and EBAY is allowing these parasites to line their pockets with money from genuine music lovers who should be given the opportunity to buy the tickets directly.

I generally like EBAY but when it comes to ticket sales they are taking away the right of people to attend these venues and are acting as agents to an immoral trade. All they would have to do is make it a rule of EBAY that tickets can only be sold at face value and with limited postage costs then the touts would give up bulk buying concert tickets. 

I think EBAY is too busy making profit to care about the people it is exploiting. 

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