The Teenage Cancer Trust have been working with eBay to ensure that the charity benefits from secondary sales of tickets for their upcoming series of concerts. An has said that that at least 20% of the final sale price must be donated to the TCT through eBay for Charity. One and three day listings for the tickets will not be allowed; this clause, presumably, is to allow more vetting of listings.
I hope Geoff Ellis and others who’ve complained about eBay ticket sales are reading this: acknowledging that the secondary market exists and working *with* it to ensure charities benefit too is a much more rational approach than trying to ban resales altogether.
The four concerts are:
9 April: Noel Fielding plus guests.
10 April: Paul Weller and Steve Cradock plus Duffy.
11 April: The Fratellis plus guests.
12 April: Muse plus guests.
The TCT’s website, by the way, appears to be in meltdown at the moment. Hopefully that’s indicative of a great series of events for them.
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“I hope Geoff Ellis and others who’ve complained about eBay ticket sales are reading this: acknowledging that the secondary market exists and working *with* it to ensure charities benefit too is a much more rational approach than trying to ban resales altogether.”
too right!
many people connected with charity seem to be blinded by a self rightgeous haze and forget the point of the word charity
Such a simple solution and this way the charity gets 2 bites of the cherry, so to speak, so everyone involved wins.
Hoorah to sanity and a ticket supplier that “gets the secondary market” 🙂
Nice short term fix/spin.
Will this legitimize the Profiteering (secondary market) on eBay or possibly make it a less favoured venue for ticket sales? The 20% might make it less workable for the opertunists.
I wonder if the touts outside the event will be as genourous as there eBay colleagues.
its questionable to who is actually profiting,
you dont see many charitable institutions going bankrupt