Comments on: Touting it about http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2005/06/14/706/ Because all the other domain names were taken Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:53:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: tom http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2005/06/14/706/comment-page-1/#comment-1072 tom Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:42:10 +0000 http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/blog/?p=706#comment-1072 If you wanted to guarantee a booming market for touted tickets, there's not much more you could have done than the Live8 organisers already have. Whip up massive attention and enthusiasm, make the cost of aquiring tickets in the first place the cost of a text message, then distribute them at random with no personally identifying information. Oh, and repeatedly remind everybody that this concert isn't about raising money, it's about raising awareness... If you wanted to guarantee a booming market for touted tickets, there’s not much more you could have done than the Live8 organisers already have. Whip up massive attention and enthusiasm, make the cost of aquiring tickets in the first place the cost of a text message, then distribute them at random with no personally identifying information. Oh, and repeatedly remind everybody that this concert isn’t about raising money, it’s about raising awareness…

]]> By: iainl http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2005/06/14/706/comment-page-1/#comment-1071 iainl Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:38:44 +0000 http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/blog/?p=706#comment-1071 So, Coldplay and co. are united by their almost fanatical devotion to promoting free and fair trade. So they put on a series of concerts, where they kick the dolls out of the pram as soon as someone wants to get round the restrictions they've placed on how to get hold of tickets. Clever. So, Coldplay and co. are united by their almost fanatical devotion to promoting free and fair trade.

So they put on a series of concerts, where they kick the dolls out of the pram as soon as someone wants to get round the restrictions they’ve placed on how to get hold of tickets.

Clever.

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