Pairs of £50 tickets for Paul Weller's sell-out Keighley concert have been fetching up £441 on an Internet auction site.

The 500 tickets for the gig, at Victoria Hall, next Friday night, were sold out within 70 minutes of going on sales at the Speak's store in the town centre.

Just hours later they were available at more than double their face value on Internet sites such as eBay.

Many pairs of tickets sold for about £200, but by Wednesday two pairs had gone for £441 and £310, with tickets numbers one and two making £210. About 20 pairs had been put up for sale, worth more than £3,500 to the online touts.

Weller fans, who had been left empty-handed or were unable to queue for tickets, costing £25 with £3.50 booking fee, have bombarded his official web site to criticise those who queued for 24 hours simply to make a profit.

Some believed tickets should have been limited to two per person. And there are claims that people who only wanted two tickets had made arrangements to sell on half their allocation to others in the queue.

Scott Myatt, who travelled from Castleford to buy two tickets, was one of the final people to secure his place.

He said: "I travelled from Castleford and took my pot luck along with everyone else but it makes my blood boil when I see tickets now on sale for up to four times their face value.

"I am not well off and could have quite easily purchased another two to sell on at a large profit, but I have been brought up to believe you take what you require and leave what you don't require for others to share and appreciate.

"Unfortunately, we shall be left in a society whereby anyone of any fame or magnitude will decline any requests for autographs or memorabilia for fear of whose hands they actually end up in. I feel completely disappointed for all those who queued and left empty-handed."

Reasons for selling on tickets included buying them for friends who would still be on honeymoon or for someone, whose new dog would need looking after because he had not realised the gig was on Bonfire Night.

Weller's guitar technician Roger Nowell, who arranged the gig, told the Keighley News last week that he had learned important lessons from the ticket operation.

After he had received a number of phone calls and e-mails from angry fans unable to buy tickets for their home-town concert, Mr Nowell said he planned to issue loyalty cards to people who regularly attended his other Keighley gigs -- many at the New Variety Club. And having attracted Ocean Colour Scene, as well as Paul Weller, he hoped to convince other top bands to come to the town.