While some people and businesses took advantage of a tragedy, I'm not going to freak out over this.
Yes, it would have been nice if they had opened comments to everyone during the live stream. Yes, it would have been smart to turn off donations/or promise those donations to a charity, but I don't think this was malicious and considering how many people tune into the Nine Club, they were providing a service for those bummed on the loss of someone so important to skateboarding. Despite other standing criticisms, they were doing something good.
If they said, "Donate now and 100% of proceeds will go to the Ben Raemers Foundation" or something, and then went out and bought a new car, we could all be hyper upset.