Monday, October 8th 2007
Led Zeppelin: 'I Wish EBay Would Drop Dead and Die.'
EBay is known for selling all sorts of interesting goodies. Among them are tickets to the Led Zeppelin reunion show. When Led Zeppelin promotor Harvey Goldstein heard about this, he tried to get eBay to stop selling these tickets. According to Goldstein, eBay "basically told us to **** off". And so, in response to this, Goldstein vowed to seriously mess with the lives of the people selling these tickets on eBay. Goldstein plans on messing up the lives of these people by declaring the tickets purchased off eBay null and void, which will cause a nightmare for a lot of hardcore Led Zeppelin fans. Checking whether or not a ticket was purchased off eBay is surprisingly easy, all they have to do at the box office is deny entry to anyone who bought the ticket with a different credit card than they have. The Led Zeppelin Reunion show will take place on November 26 at London's 02 Arena.
Source:
Neowin.net
45 Comments on Led Zeppelin: 'I Wish EBay Would Drop Dead and Die.'
Radio play-> cd sales-> concert sales
Same reason Rolling Stones won't end their reuinion tour...they keep making sold out concerts (money), same thing goes for that canadian girl, whats her name? Cileen dion (LOL)?
1/3 of the tickets get given away one way or another. And who do you think pays for all the equipment set up and rental of the concert stage??
And people go to concerts for the experience. You cant take the music home like you do on a cd, but you do keep the experience in you for ever.
:banghead:
I go for the experience sure, but I'm not going to a random concert without listening to their music first. After that, I will go online and buy the live verison of the concert in mp3 format and put it on my iPod (that way I do get to take the music home).
Would like a word with you.
2 the reason the concert is sold out is because there are so many ppl who dont even want to go to the show they are just greedy so they buy like 15 tickets at a time just to make a profit off them on ebay now if thats not an example of greed i dont know what is.
im not saying that this IS the reason concerts get sold out so fast but im willing to bet 25 to 40 % of tickets used at the shows have been resold for atleast 2x the price that they where supposed to cost
Ticket brokers buy large blocks of tickets and sell them the same way, and they have no problem with this? The only difference is that individuals are doing it versus broker companies.
Either way, if I am going to spend $300 dollars it will be for a water cooling setup that I can enjoy for months or years instead of three hours in a venue crammed with people.
But that's just me ;)
Thus when you buy one of the 100 tickets on ebay, because few employees don't have the time to go, or just simply have no interest, thus they are purchased with a difference credit card. Thus those employees sell them on ebay or give them to friends.
(I just won't be buying tickets off of Ebay though lol)
on the stern side here, they dont make the tickets, the ticket box does. So in essence, the manager is being a ****tard here. On the other hand, I see the point in protecting the consumer...but honestly, it shouldnt matter how the person going to the concert got the tickets...let them enjoy the rock and roll baby.
That's a little redundant, not to mention tautologist. You want to stop trying to be a martyr and get to work on your English mate.... (Stupid musicians and managers etc).