Fans Furious As One Love Manchester Tickets Sold For Ten Times The Price Online
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Fans were left devastated this morning after Ariana Grande's One Love Manchester concert tickets sold out in just six minutes. The huge gig will feature a star-studded line up, including Little Mix, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Niall Horan, Pharrell, Usher, Take That and Robbie Williams - to name but a few.

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Site crashes, error screens and sold out messages sent people into a frenzy, and many then accepted that they may just not be able to attend the concert.
The tickets were only available from Ticketmaster, which had vowed to ban tickets from being sold on secondary sites for an increased price. Some, however, slipped through the net and have appeared on sites like eBay, for more than ten times the original price of £40.
People have been left shocked, angered and saddened at the revelation.
If you are selling tickets for Ariana Grane One Love tickets for profit for yourself, then you are a fucking scum bag and deserve a smack :middle_finger:
- Beth Jordan (@bethyjordan) June 1, 2017
People selling tickets for hundreds of pounds for that Ariana Grande remembrance concert are the lowest of the low scumbags.
- Tom Drake (@TomDrake3) June 1, 2017
Just been scammed whilst trying to buy Ariana Grande tickets. The people selling for £400 is bad but scamming someone? Sick @ArianaGrande
- Cara (@Cara_Janes) June 1, 2017
People buying Ariana Tickets for the charity event Sunday and selling them privately for 10x the value are pure FILTH!!! :rage:
- Ricki Anthony Ellis (@RickiAEllis) June 1, 2017
People selling those Ariana Grande tickets on eBay for £300 are scum
- Conor Smith (@Conzsmith) June 1, 2017
To the people selling tickets just to make a profit? Fuck you. This is to support a cause and to come together. #OneLoveManchester
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- elli misses ariana (@ellirak) June 1, 2017
Buying tickets for the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester & selling them on 4 profit, absolute lowlifes, hope nobody buys em off ya
- Kirsty Stanley (@stanners_1982) June 1, 2017
While it's unclear if the people selling them planned to donate the money to charity themselves, the ticket price had been decided by the artist and organisers for a reason. Ariana wants her fans to have the tickets, not someone who plans to sell them on, whatever price.
eBay is doing all it can to deter the behaviour, and has now deleted most, if not all of the listings. A spokesperson said,
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.
They also tweeted to warn people of the consequences.
Please do not attempt to sell #OneLoveManchester tickets on our site. We are actively removing all listings & restricting sellers who try to
- eBay.co.uk (@eBay_UK) June 1, 2017
This is completely against eBay rules. We are immediately removing all listings which attempt to profit unfairly from what happened.
- eBay.co.uk (@eBay_UK) June 1, 2017
Anyone who uses a great cause like this to make a profit really are the lowest of the low.
Unfortunately, that wasn't the only controversy surrounding One Love Manchester today. 14,200 free tickets had been reserved in advance for those at last week's Ariana Grande concert, but Ticketmaster revealed that more than 25,000 applications had been received to attend Sunday's gig for free.
"Sadly, over 10,000 unscrupulous applications have been made," said a spokesperson for the ticketing company.
"At Ticketmaster we are doing everything we can - including extending today's deadline - to ensure that tickets go to the actual fans and not the opportunists or touts who have also been applying for free tickets."
If you didn't manage to get tickets, you can tune into the television coverage on BBC One, from 6.55pm until 10pm.
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