The last laugh

Quoted from: http://www.7days.ae/

'Published on: Sunday, 16th April, 2006

Touts hoping to make a fortune by selling Robbie Williams tickets on the Internet stand to lose their money after another batch of tickets went on sale, leaving them with no bidders.
Tickets for the concert sold out within three hours, and they quickly went on sale on internet auction sites for up to ten times their original value.
Genuine fans complained they were turned away as touts snapped up dozens of tickets each.
One dhs495 grandstand seat was offered on souq.com for a staggering dhs4,750. But last week event sponsor The One announced it had another 2,500 tickets available.
And with those yet to sell out, instead of counting their money, greedy touts can only count their piles of unwanted tickets as demand dried up. Many of the sales didn't have a single bid last night.
'The responses to the tickets on the internet have fallen drastically after the announcement of more ticket sales,' said a spokesman for an auction website.
Of 151 auctions on souq.com, most of which were selling several tickets at a time, just 43 had bids.
Few of the auctions had met the seller's reserve price. Four grandstand tickets did sell for a total of dhs2,025 - a profit of just dhs45.
Anyone wanting to buy tickets online can bid for tickets being sold by Suman Manian and Helena Mcloughlin, who will give all the money raised to local charity Gulf 4 Good.

Just type 2065442 in the search box on souq.com. Robbie Williams will be performing at Nad Al Sheba this Friday.'