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Geldof blasts 'sick' eBay sales

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    #21
    Re: that guy

    Well it looks like Saint Bob got his way in the end.

    I can't see how selling a ticket won in this texting raffle was any different to selling any other prize won in a raffle. If I had won a car in a charity sponsord raffle from a £1 ticket, would I get critisism if I sold it for its market value?

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      #22
      Shame that ebay backed down really

      Now of course all the bedbugs can come out and howl at the top of their voices whenever anything is auctioned, there's always some looney who thinks it immoral to sell something.
      They should have told BG to FOAD.

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        #23
        Re: Shame that ebay backed down really

        what annoys st bob is that he didn't think about having some system where returned tickets could be resold on ebay thus making loads of wonga for the charity.

        what are people actually meant to do with tickets that they don't want anymore? give them to the homeless?

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          #24
          Re: Shame that ebay backed down really

          what are people actually meant to do with tickets that they don't want anymore? give them to the homeless?
          Why not send them to Africa? They could make them into compost or something.

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            #25
            Re: Shame that ebay backed down really

            Why didn't he stick them all on ebay in the first place? They could have made a mint. Istead to dopey fecker gives them away for next to nothing and wonders why people are then selling them on for their true market worth.

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              #26
              Re: Shame that ebay backed down really

              Wonder if he's had a bath yet this year... wouldn't want to waste all those valuable skin oils.

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                #27
                $545 000 limousine for President Bingu of Malawi!

                How many tickets will it take to pay for this?

                News24.com (SA), June 17

                Blantyre—Opposition and civic groups are in uproar in the poor southern African nation of Malawi over state plans to buy a $545 000 limousine for President Bingu wa Mutharika while more than one million people face starvation.

                “The decision has come at a wrong time when the country is facing serious food shortages,” Nancy Tembo, an opposition lawmaker of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), was quoted as saying by state television on Thursday.

                Malawi, which consumes two million tons of the national staple maize annually, plans to spend $50m to import 300 000 tons to avert famine following drought this year that reduced crop yields by 24%.

                Finance minister Goodall Gondwe defended the move to acquire a top-of the-range Maybach 62 made by Mercedes-Benz, saying it “was necessary to buy the vehicle because of its safety features”.

                Also speaking on television on Thursday, he said the country would not feel the effects as the payments would “be spread over a period of time”.

                Civic groups joined opposition lawmakers in condemning the move.

                “It’s something we never expected from the president. That sort of money could buy 45 000 bags of maize,” said Collins Magalasi from the watchdog Malawi Economic Justice Network.

                Rafif Hajat, who heads a policy intervention institute, said with 1.3 million people facing starvation, and “excluded from debt relief, we cannot afford such luxury”.

                Broken promises of a stringent budget

                Mutharika, who took over from his former mentor Bakili Muluzi last year, had pledged to trim state spending, eschew luxuries and fight graft when he came to power.

                Muluzi, who ruled for a decade, had drawn trenchant criticism for buying 39 new Mercedes Benz cars for his ministers three years ago at a cost of $2.5m.

                About 60% of Malawi’s 11 million people live below the poverty threshold of less than $1 a day in the former British colony, which is also badly hit by the Aids pandemic.

                The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other donors have suspended more than $75m in aid over concerns about overspending during Muluzi’s 10-year tenure.

                Another Southern African fan of the Maybach, which has a 550-horsepower engine and claims to be the ultimate in refinement, is the continent’s last absolute monarch, King Mswati III of Swaziland.

                In a country which also has one of the world’s highest HIV/Aids infection rates and where more than 65% of the 1.2 million inhabitants live below the poverty line, Mswati has a Maybach for himself and a new fleet of Mercedes for his dozen wives.

                (Posted on June 17, 2005)

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