Selling tickets to MJ memorial..... free enterprise or cheating?

United States
July 7, 2009 9:04am CST
I just saw on the news on tv (which I may boycott the rest of the day to miss all the MJ hoopla!) they gave away tickets to his memorial service. They were bidding on these same "free" tickets on ebay from anywhere from $9000 to $49,000 (US). What do you think you would do if you had won the free ticket? Would you attend or sell the ticket on ebay? Do you think they are "cheating" to sell the tickets for profit or is it a right in our "free enterprise" society? Isn't that the point of free enterprise? What do you think?
3 responses
@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
9 Jul 09
Hi macdingolinger! Definitely it is repulsive. Our world has already come to that ages ago. But come to think of it, even college courses such as Business Administration and Marketing had assigned academic terminologies for that kind of earning...marginal profit or something. If MJ was alive, it probably would have been one of the issues he would like to heal in this world. I'd like to look at it this way. If those who did that were poor, at least they have some food on the table for their children. For the ones who joined so they could buy designer clothes, their day will come.
• United States
9 Jul 09
I believe you are probably right! I would hope that if someone did it because they had no food that all would understand! Usually, it doesn't work that way though! :)
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• United States
7 Jul 09
I think it's just SICK that people were doing this. I understand we all want to make money but there is a place to draw the line & this my friends is it! **shaking head**
• United States
7 Jul 09
I hear that! I can see if you gave them to someone else if you had a family emergency and couldn't go.. but it would have to be pretty tragic to keep you away from such a huge deal!
@dlr297 (5409)
• United States
7 Jul 09
I think that it is wrong for them to be selling the tickets. and the police in California said any one scalping these tickets would be arrested. If they did not want to attend they should not have bidded on them in the first place. they should have left them for people that really wanted to attend.
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• United States
7 Jul 09
You are absolutely right! Some people will do anything for money though... even in bad taste and greed!