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06-14-2005, 07:30 PM
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 ============================================== LONDON (Reuters) - Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof has condemned as "sick profiteering" the sale of free charity concert tickets on auction Web site eBay. Tickets to the star-studded London show, which aims to pressure world leaders into fighting poverty, were given away to the winners of a text lottery. But they immediately started appearing on eBay for hundreds of pounds. Geldof branded the site an "electronic pimp" and called for a worldwide boycott. "I am sick with this," Geldof said in a statement. "What eBay are doing is profiteering on the backs of the impoverished. "The people who are selling it are wretches. But far worse is the corporate culture which capitalizes on people's misery." Geldof organized the July 2nd concert 20 years after his Live Aid sensation which raised money to help the starving in Ethiopia. Rather than raise money, the 2005 concert aims to raise the profile of African poverty and influence leaders of the G8 group of industrialized nations who meet in Scotland in July. Four other concerts will be held around the world on the same day. eBay said in a statement they were selling the tickets because "we live in a free market where people can make up their own minds," but said they would donate at least the equivalent of the fees they raised through the sale of Live 8 tickets. Geldof rejected this offer, saying instead he was appealing to their "sense of decency to stop this disgusting greed." eBay said the reselling of charity tickets was not illegal under British law. "A ticket to the Live 8 concert is no different from a prize won in a raffle ... and what the winner chooses to do with it is up to them," it added. Over two million text messages were sent by people hoping to get tickets in the draw and winners were notified on Monday. Pairs of tickets were being offered for several hundred pounds on Tuesday on the auction site. Performers for the London concert include U2, Paul McCartney, Coldplay, Madonna and REM. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050614/...isure_live8_dc
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06-14-2005, 09:11 PM
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Don't look up on your movie screens In record stores or magazines Close your eyes and you will see That you are all you really need JBJ - I believe "Sambora's face is a mask of joyous disbelief, as if previously unaware of his ability to play the instrument at all. Reaching the last fistful of notes, he does a fair impression of a man who is actually ejaculating into his jet black flares." . . . Ben Mitchell, Q Magazine
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06-15-2005, 12:13 AM
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so Geldof won
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06-15-2005, 01:03 PM
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ok, see the irony here...
didnt i just go and get a txt from live8 this morning saying id won 2 tix?!?!  ARGHHH!! cant go anyway. im on a role this week, 1st winning the foo fighters comp and now this. there must be other forces at work. andi
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Don't look up on your movie screens In record stores or magazines Close your eyes and you will see That you are all you really need JBJ - I believe "Sambora's face is a mask of joyous disbelief, as if previously unaware of his ability to play the instrument at all. Reaching the last fistful of notes, he does a fair impression of a man who is actually ejaculating into his jet black flares." . . . Ben Mitchell, Q Magazine
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oh man she's decided she doesn't think she's goign to go because she's seeing coldplay the day before and doesn't think she'll be able to get down to london on time
 i want to buy them off her but I think he rboyfriends goign to sell them on 9rather him than her to be honest) **** Bob Geldoff, I'm not having a rich prick dictate how i handle my financial dealings.
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06-15-2005, 06:36 PM
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wow! I wish I could go there! but unfortunally! well i'm going to anastacia that day! so that is also good
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