eBay Promises To Remove Jimmy Buffett Tickets

Wednesday 3:00 p.m.
Alabama Governor Bob Riley's office is "asking questions" about how tickets to the Jimmy Buffett Gulf Coast Relief Concert were distributed so quickly this morning.

"This concert is to benefit the Gulf Coast, not to benefit ticket scalpers," said Todd Stacy, a spokesperson for the governor, who praised eBay's decision to remove ticket listings on their website. "The true beneficiaries need to be local businesses and the local economy of the Gulf Coast," said Stacy.

Alabama Attorney General's office has received inquries about the ticket resale process, but Chris Bence, Troy King's Chief of Staff, said at this point there is no basis to begin an investigation because the original tickets were free.

Wednesday 2:15 p.m.
Free tickets to Jimmy Buffett's Gulf Coast Relief Concert will be removed from eBay, according to a statement released by the company.

“While eBay in many cases allows the listing of event tickets that are initially distributed for free, we did not feel that the resale of free tickets to the Gulf Coast benefit concert was appropriate or consistent with the charitable spirit of the event," the company said in a statement.

A spokesperson for the company said eBay is in the process of removing existing ticket listings from the website, and they have put "measures in place to try to capture new listings from going live."

As of Wednesday afternoon a pair of concert tickets was still listed for more than $2400.

Wednesday 10:15 a.m.
All 35,000 free tickets for Jimmy Buffett's Gulf Coast Relief Concert were gone in less than ten minutes.

Thousands of disappointed fans flooded Ticketmaster.com and Ticketmaster outlets only to find out the tickets were already gone.

Within minutes, the free tickets started showing up on eBay and Craig's List for hundreds of dollars. One posting on eBay offered a set of four tickets for $619.99.

Promoters of Mobile-native Jimmy Buffett's concert announced the event over the weekend to bring people back to the Gulf Coast in the wake of the massive oil spill that continues to devastate the environment and the economy.

Joining Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band will be Kenny Chesney, Zac Brown, Allen Toussaint, Sonny Landreth, and Jesse Winchester.

For those who do have tickets, gates will open at 3 p.m., and the concert will start at 5 p.m.

If you didn't get a ticket to the show, you can still listen and watch. Performances will be simulcast live on Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio and streamed live on CMT.com. A portion of the show will air live on CMT from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.