Random Rants

“The Rise of EBay the rise of the Profiteer”

I bet most people have woke up one morning with the building excitement of hoping to buy tickets to see their favourite band from one of the leading internet ticket seller. To find that they have sold out within 10 minutes of going on sale, your heart sinks knowing that this could be the last chance you could see them. Out of curiosity you look on eBay to see if there could be a few at a reasonable price, to your hearts dismay you find that it is flooded with hundreds of tickets of the venue you wanted and the price as almost double.

I have been in this situation a number of times. These day people just tend to buy tickets for a high profile gig not for the love of the music or that they are a fan but for sheer profit. I find this to be disgusting and selfish. The people who have followed a band, bought all their albums and want to experience them live but find that they cant because people have decided to buy more than they need with the intent of sell them on eBay at an extortionate rate.

I do understand that the seller as the right to this because they have bought the ticket and they own it but it just is not fair on the people who would of paid the original price but not the price they want. I also understand that there are fans that would be willing to pay double the price and these are the people they are targeting.

I just feel the rise of Internet bidding sites as allowed the illegal toting system to be legitimised on the these such sites allowing people to charge what they want. I just think there should be some regulation on this.