[Jimmy_Lemon]

Just listening again and heard the bit about some scum bag putting their red nose rally tickers on eBay - good to see that people have decided to screw it up

http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dl ... 0091904737

(Cant see that this has already been posted, but firefox crashed and I lost my "new posts" thingy...so sorry if its on here already)

[Ballbag]

Yeah..... I can't believe some people....... scum bags.


I was all set to make a tidy profit on those tickets, until people started screwing it up.

[DemonHorse]

I wonder how they came to the face value of £20?

[pjordan2000]

Maybe its the amount of times they texted to get them, trying to cover their costs!!

[~JACQUI~]

Who has bidded for them. My bf thinks it is ebay keeping real people ffrom buying them

[Ballbag]

I don't think so...... it's because Moyles mentioned them this morning, with his angst attached, and a few similarly minded people have decided to hijack the auction.

[MK Chris]

Ah, I wondered what he was going on about, I switched on half way through that rant.

[~JACQUI~]

But all of the bidders are called bidder (number)

£10,000,000 apparently

[Console]

As online shopping evolves, eBay continues to focus on preserving our marketplace's open and level playingfield whilst protecting our Community of members. We have decided to change how bid history information is displayed so unscrupulous people cannot target bidders with fake offers using this information. In certain cases, some bidders will no longer be able to see other bidder's User IDs on the listing page. Your User ID will be shown only to you and the seller of the item you're bidding on. Other members will see an anonymous name, such as Bidder 1, Bidder 2 etc.

Emphasis mine.

[~JACQUI~]

I'm thick

[Console]

Seems there's another Rally-oke auction on eBay, only this one is for a 'pen':-

Chris Moyles Rallyoke Rally-Oke Tickets (pen for sale)

[Yudster]

Are the Rallyoke tickets marked non-transferable? If so, eBay shouldn't be allowing them on the site. If not - well, it says something about the people selling them, but it if isn't illegal, why can they not sell a thing which they own? There's no law against being a money grabbing prick, unfortunately.

[~JACQUI~]

They can't guarantee that they will be able to get the tickets because to get the tickets its something to do with the phone number...I'm confused

[Ballbag]

I think it works thus........... if you win, they text you a code. Then they send you a text telling you where to get the tickets from. You go there with your phone, use the code AND your phone number as confirmation, and then they give you tickets.

So in effect the way the guy on ebay's advertising them wont work, because he's telling the winner to go and pick up the tickets, but they wont be able to do so without the winning phone......... in short he's talking balls.

That's what I'm lead to believe from what they were saying this morning.

[~JACQUI~]

I was right in my head, just not on typing...

[derekacorahsdad]

lets all do false bids and bid like 2 million quid lmao ,scumbags, radio1 giving money to charity then some dude cashing in on it
maybee they should give the profit to comic relief

[DemonHorse]

Seems there's another Rally-oke auction on eBay, only this one is for a 'pen':-

Chris Moyles Rallyoke Rally-Oke Tickets (pen for sale)

Genius.

[derekacorahsdad]

SOMEONE DID HAHAHHAHAH

[~JACQUI~]

Lol What's with the Value Avatar?

Hehe I work for Tesco, the Value stuff hasn't quite looked like that for years

The auction has ended...was it a serious bid I wonder? Hmmmm.....

[Nicola_Red]

Are the Rallyoke tickets marked non-transferable? If so, eBay shouldn't be allowing them on the site. If not - well, it says something about the people selling them, but it if isn't illegal, why can they not sell a thing which they own? There's no law against being a money grabbing prick, unfortunately.

All tickets for concerts etc are marked non-transferable by the issuers. As it's not against criminal law to sell them on, ebay choose to ignore this. So even if the rallyoke tix were marked as such I doubt they would care.

On the subject of people messing up the auctions by putting in unrealistic bids, it's a lot of hassle to set up an account just for that purpose, and I wouldn't want a strike and negative feedback on my regular ebay account just as a result of doing that.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

booo to you. Its the principle.

[DemonHorse]

booo to you. Its the principle.

and the fact that the person selling these tickets has none.

[Yudster]

Absolutey, and I know its not a criminal offence to sell them, I just said that eBay ought not to facilitate it. They are big enough to demonstrate some principles I think. Obviously they don't agree.

[Nicola_Red]

Jeez no, ebay's only principle is to make a profit. I do understand that the unscrupulous people selling the rallyoke tix are attempting to profit from charity and I agree that's terrible. The only point I was trying to make is that as someone who's worked in ticketing for many years, I am more than familiar with the way people try to circumvent rules and procedures to make themselves a quick quid or two.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

so we should all do nothing at all eh? Bloody apathetic thats the trouble with this generation.

Freedom for Tooting.