02-04-2006, 10:27 AM
Quote:MUSIC fans are being forced to pay astronomical prices for tickets to pop concerts because of a new scam involving eBay, the internet marketplace.
The practice was condemned yesterday by concert promoters and music fans who demanded that internet touting be outlawed...
"EBay has many legal uses, for example allowing a small business to sell in a large marketplace," said Thomas Heaney, a regular concert-goer from Edinburgh. "However, widespread touting of gig tickets on eBay is robbing real music fans..."
"EBay themselves are unwilling to change these rules, as they make money from these leeches and I would urge fellow fans to boycott eBay until they do so."...
full article: http://news.scotsman.com/music.cfm?id=179312006