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• Tickets and ticketmatters

  Published: September 3, 2007, 8:40 am

  Tags: Tickets, Ticketmaster, Prince, Led Zeppelin, Harvey Goldsmith

  that the most worried man is Harvey Goldsmith:In a statement, the rock promoter said: "There have been at least four events advertised which I suspect either don't exist or where no tickets are on sale or indeed dates finalised."Now, is that the words of a man who is merely interested in the poor folk being fleeced, or are the words of a man

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• Re-led

  Published: September 12, 2007, 3:20 pm

  Tags: Led Zeppelin, Harvey Goldsmith, Reunions

  a platform for Havrey Goldsmith to bang on about ticket touts again. The idea is that this time, touting will be beaten through a lottery system, with Goldsmith promising that "multiple applicants" will, somehow, be weeded out. We're not quite sure how Goldsmith can tell between two people with different names, and one person using

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• Adding up the comeback

  Published: September 13, 2007, 7:51 am

  Tags: Tickets, Ebay, Led Zeppelin, Touts, Harvey Goldsmith

  on at once?Meanwhile, Harvey Goldsmith ahs outlined his lottery plans:Tickets for the show will be allocated by public ballot - a move promoter Harvey Goldsmith hopes will deter touts."We just hope and pray that those people who get a ticket in a ballot are just going to act accordingly," he said Uh... so the idea is that you, um, win a

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• Led Zep fans give Goldsmith grief

  Published: October 3, 2007, 2:36 pm

  Tags: Led Zeppelin, Harvey Goldsmith, Comebacks

  on Led Zeppelin tickets by Harvey Goldsmith are having something of a backlash. Although Goldsmith likes to portray himself as on the side of fans, the need to provide identification at the door to freeze out people who've bought their ticket codes off touts has created a hive of pissed-off people.As one points out to Gigwise, turning people

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• Led Zep comeback letdown blow-up

  Published: October 7, 2007, 6:00 am

  Tags: Tickets, Led Zeppelin, Touts, Harvey Goldsmith

  Goldsmith's single-minded pursuit of touts has caused a massive screw-up in the Led Zep ticketing process.In order to try and stop touts selling tickets on eBay, Goldsmith and his team decided that you'd have to have tickets with names on that matched the credit card that bought them.In itself, this is over-prescriptive. Want to buy the

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• Led Zep eBay mixed messages

  Published: November 16, 2007, 1:55 pm

  Tags: Jimmy Page, Ebay, Charity, Led Zeppelin, Harvey Goldsmith

  last month that charming Harvey Goldsmith railed at them:"I wish eBay would drop dead and die... I have begged them to take [the tickets] off and they have basically told us to fuck off. So I will do everything I possibly can to ruin their lives."(We're not entirely sure, inter alia, how one ruins the 'lives' of a corporation and makes it

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