Bob Geldof has branded the sale of Live 8 tickets on the Internet auction site eBay "sick profiteering". The Live 8 organizer was livid after discovering that people were flogging their free tickets only minutes after winning them.
Hundreds swamped eBay offering to sell pairs for up to £1,000 for Britain’s biggest ever charity concert. Now he is threatening a High Court order to stop the "sick profiteering" - and wants a worldwide boycott of the site, branding it "an electronic pimp".
Geldof said: "I am sick with this. It is a ****ing disgrace. It is completely against the interests of the poor. The people who are selling these tickets on websites are miserable wretches who are capitalising on people’s misery. I am appealing to their sense of decency to stop this disgusting greed."
A spokeswoman for eBay said the reselling of charity concert tickets is not illegal under UK law.
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