A massive 84% of Gigwise readers believe that Led Zeppelin fans are the victims of Harvey Goldsmith’s ticket code clampdown.
On Tuesday, concert promoter Goldsmith announced stringent measures which prevented successful ballot winners from selling their tickets on to others seemingly to stop touts.
However, this has come under harsh criticism from many fans who claim that this was not stipulated properly beforehand and that it is themselves who are being penalised – not the touts whom Goldsmith is seemingly trying to stop.
Out of over 2,000 people polled over the past five days, 84% said that the fans were the casualties of the system, while only 9% said the touts were the victims. 5% said both were victims while the remainder were unsure.
As reported earlier today, Goldsmith is unwavering in his stance on what he calls the “parasitic businesses” that he is clamping down on.
Gigwise has been inundated with messages from fans from all over the globe who have bought ticket codes at inflated prices to the November 26 show at the O2 Arena.
They say that they bought these codes not knowing that a credit card and photo ID matching the winners’ name would be needed to guarantee entry.
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- The rules were that you should make one application for a chance of buying 2 tickets. All unsold tickets from the 1st ballot would go into a 2nd ballot. Those people who have bought someone elses passcode are trying to jump the queue and should be penalised. Their tickets should be cancelled and put back in the hat for another ballot until all tickets are sold to only those who made one valid application. Why should people be rewarded just because they can afford £500+ on someone elses pass
- Your writer should use ”ticket buyers” rather than ”fans” to describe the code-holders. If 84% are feeling hard done to it would seem to be that they are just trying to make money out of the show and had no intention of going anyway. No sympathy from me.
- Goldsmith is a numpty-fool. He is quoted as saying that he wishes ”Ebay would drop dead and die...”
1)It is quite difficult to drop dead without dying, and
2)Ebay are not to blame - it is the peeps who are touting tickets who hold the blame.
- Harvey Goldsmith should shut up and get back to his job: Promote the concert and sell the tickets. Ranting about eBay just makes him look like an idiot. People who cry about being ’real fans’ and so forth are just stupid hippies. Wake up and smell the real world, if I buy something and then decide to sell it then that is my right.
- I hate Goldsmith! He break the life of many many many fans! Shit!
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