# eBid's stance on Live8 tickets 'justified'

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/06/14/ebid039s-stance-live8-tickets-039justified039/
- Published: 2005-06-14T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Bob Geldof’s complaint that Live8 tickets were being auctioned for private profit
on online auction site eBay has prompted rival online auction site to point out 
that it had already banned the sale of these tickets.
EBid, launched in the UK in
1999, said that it had banned the sale of Live8 tickets from its pages before Bob
Geldolf’s “outburst”. The decision was made even before the closing date for text
entries had passed.

 

 

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“Since tickets have become available we have removed 55 auctions containing Live8
tickets. We predicted this problem and had alerts setup in our software from Sunday
evening. It was a bit of a no-brainer,” said Mark Wilkinson, Marketing Director 
of eBid.

 

 

 

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