Staples.com's website in efforts to secure the "opportunity" to get a a pair of free tickets to Michael Jackson's memorial. The server crashed and they had to add another. Amazing.
I would be willing to bet that 499,000,000 of those people signed up for the chance to sell those tickets to honest fans for a very nice profit.
Capitalism. If someone wants to pay me large money to go to a funeral I have little interest in, well, your money is more valuable than his time.