There's been a lot of stuff in the media about the 8000 torches for 2012. They cost £500 to make and initially the 8000 torch carriers were told they had to buy them if they wanted to keep them. Then it got bad press so the Government u-turned and gave them to the carriers for free, the bad press was mainly down to people calling into radio shows and appearing on TV saying it was awful they could not keep their torch as it was so special to them...
Anyways, most of the 2012 torches that have been sold, the money has gone to charity... That is cool with me. However, the people who moaned about having to pay for the torches and then sold them for profit are just utter aholes.
This one sold for £150,400!