The spread of offers to sell bracelets for the queue waiting to bid farewell to the body of Queen Elizabeth II sparked widespread controversy across British platforms, as many offered their bracelets for sale, and the price sometimes reached 66,000 pounds, equivalent to 75,000 dollars, according to local newspapers.

Those standing in the queue were given bracelets to distinguish them and locate them in case they left the queue for any possible purpose, but these bracelets became a souvenir that many offered for sale.

And sites such as "eBay" and "Facebook" were filled with offers of sale, whose prices varied, but witnessed large numbers, and according to the newspaper "The Daily Star", the offer on one of these bracelets exceeded 75,000 dollars.

Ebay had deleted these bracelets and prevented their sale via the platform, and said through its customer service account - on Twitter - that offering these free bracelets is against the site's rules and policies.

Hi Stephen, We have removed this listing as per our policy.

Should you find any other items of this nature, you can click "report" on the listing and it flows into our teams for review.

Thank you for helping us and have a lovely day.

~Felicia

— Ask eBay (@AskeBay) September 19, 2022

This behavior received angry reactions from some of the followers, who saw what happened as a lack of respect for the queen and an inappropriate exploitation of her death, according to their opinion, while tweeters said that "there is no problem with taking advantage of the queen's death to make some money, as she made a lot of money from the people." in her life,” they said.

A citizen named Amanda said that her financial circumstances motivated her to offer to sell the bracelet, stressing that this does not diminish her respect for the Queen.

In her statements to the Daily Star, she added, "There is a cost of living crisis that seems to be forgotten, and everyone is struggling to feed their children and heat their homes, and I am sure the Queen would not have preferred that people starve, in order to give her some respect."


There have been many attempts to take advantage of the queen’s death by making some money, including the issuance of coins bearing the queen’s name by some interested in cryptocurrency, taking advantage of its widespread popularity in recent days, but soon these currencies lost their value and only their first origin benefited from them.

Thousands had queued to see off the Queen during the past days, whose body was buried on Monday after a funeral attended by delegations from all over the world.