To be honest, I wasn't bothered about going. So I did not text in. So what if i'd said "I know, I'll text in anyway, I'm not too tight not to contribute £1.50 to the appeal.." And then you win a pair.
So you advertise it on e-bay, and a rich person buys them.
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 06:58 (twenty years ago)
(situ: the bid money gets redonated back to live8 again)
No, it just gets me that Bob was all "We could have charged £200 per ticket and still sold them all" as "Let's let non-rich peopple get in this time" however there's always an "in" if you got the funds.
Rant over.
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)
If *I* was in that situation, I'd burn them, film it, and sell copies of the video.
― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)
(or, more likely, put the video online and become a 5-minute internet sensation)
― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 07:03 (twenty years ago)
So, what's the (knee jerk) reaction?
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)
Geldof demanded the immediate removal of tickets being sold on the site. He said: "I am sick with this. It is a 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.
She added: "We have offered to make a donation to the Live 8 organisers at least equivalent to the fees we collect from the sale of Live 8 tickets."
But Geldof said the offer by eBay to donate money was "not acceptable".
"There's nothing illegal about what they're doing unfortunately but there is something wrong with it and everyone in this entire country knows why it's wrong," he said.
"It is not acceptable is that a giant electronic company that makes billions upon billions then morally says we will just hand over our take to a charity.
"It is filthy money made on the back of the poorest people on the planet. Stick it where it belongs. "
Eh?
Didn't he claim last week it wasn't about the money, but about raising awareness?
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)
"It is not acceptable is that a giant electronic company that makes billions upon billions then morally says we will just hand over our take to a charity. "It is filthy money made on the back of the poorest people on the planet. Stick it where it belongs. "
this is batshit insane.
― N_RQ, Wednesday, 15 June 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)
the bob-ometer is pointing to "not quite taken all your pills today have you dear?"
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)
"It is not acceptable is that a giant electronic company that makes billions upon billions then morally says we will just hand over our take to a charity.You know, as opposed to those nice mobile phone companies who've pocketed several million text message charges...
Also, that sentence makes absolutely no sense whatsoever (Bob's not mine).
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)