Outrage as touts sell One Love Manchester tickets for £200 each
Tickets for Ariana Grande's Manchester benefit concert, One Love Manchester, went on sale this morning but sold out in just six minutes.
General admission tickets cost £40 each, with much of the proceeds going toward the We Love Manchester Fund.
However, people were outraged to find tickets being sold on eBay for up to £200 mere hours after tickets had gone on sale.
To all #TicketTouts selling Tickets for the memorial gig in Manchester at overinflated prices…..YOU ARE ALL SICK SCUM!. #manchesterattack pic.twitter.com/O5yi1BEngU
— . (@PaulEEMAK) June 1, 2017
Ticket touts already selling #OneLoveManchester tickets for double, triple the price
— Gemma (@gemmaeadiex) June 1, 2017
Ticket touts that are trying to resell the One Love Manchester tickets for a profit should be ashamed. Actually makes me so angry!
— Rachel McLeish (@rachmcl) June 1, 2017
I REALLY hope ticket touts will NOT be making money out of #ManchersterArena #ManchesterBombing if they do THEY MUST BE NAMED AND SHAMED
— Pete Price (@PeteCityPrice) June 1, 2017
According to reports, eBay have denied that they allow the sale of any tickets on the site, and promised that all tickets for the event will be automatically removed.
"We don’t allow the sale of any type of ticket on eBay so these will be removed automatically. All tickets for this event will most certainly be removed by the team who are doing manual sweeps to pick up any that slip through.
"We also aren’t allowing the sale of ANY item which profits in any way from the tragedy in Manchester. All of these items are being removed if they appear. Customers can give at checkout to the Manchester fund via the Red Cross."
Ticketmaster have also come out to say they are ''cancelling tickets of those who are reselling wherever possible.''
#OneLoveManchester We're working hard to get tickets direct to fans. We are cancelling tickets of those who are reselling wherever possible
— Ticketmaster UK (@TicketmasterUK) June 1, 2017
The three-hour long concert will be held at Manchester's Old Trafford cricket ground on Sunday, June 4, almost two weeks after the attack at the Manchester Arena took place.
Coldplay, Take That, Niall Horan, Usher, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and Pharell William will all join Ariana on stage in an effort to to raise much needed proceeds and pay tribute to victims and their families.
For those of us not lucky enough to be there, the three-hour long show will air on BBC on Sunday night from 7:15pm, and donations can be mage through the We Love Manchester JustGiving page.
