Led Zep comeback letdown blow-up

Published: October 7, 2007, 6:00 am

Tags: tickets, led zeppelin, touts, harvey goldsmith

Harvey 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 tickets as a surprise anniversary gift for your parents? Buying them to pay your mate back for the time he stuck your football tickets on his Visa? Got a friend flying in from overseas who only has Discover card, so you bought on their behalf? Kept your credit card in your maiden name but ordered in your married name? Sorry, you're out of luck.What makes it worse is they forgot to mention this rather important rule in the terms and conditions when the tickets initially went on sale.Goldsmith, of course, is so besotted with his anti-touting plans he can't see the problem, and defends it on his blog:I am fully aware that there seems to be concerns

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