I think you are now at the stage where this problem should be dealt with between you/ebay and paypal. Zeppelin forum members have given you as much help as they can.

Codyman, Was he at Boleskine on his own? From the mid-80's onward, he was married. Did he not mention his wife and son, James? Did your girlfriend go into the house with you? Here is a link to an article featuring Jimmy's former caretaker at Boleskine, Malcolm Dent:- http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/1327/A_rock_legend_and_black_arts_figured_in_Malcolm_s_life.html

Cheesehead, 1. What you should do is exactly what I and others advised you to do yesterday. Read the final paragraphs of my posting from yesterday. If you paid by Paypal, start a Paypal reclaim a.s.a.p. If you paid by other means, claim through Ebay. Paypal/Ebay require the goods to be returned before they will make the final refund. But in the meantime, start your claim now through Paypal/Ebay. When you are in the Ebay system try their 'help' facility and their 'community' facility because the latter allows you to ask for help from other Ebay members. 2. Make a separate complaint to Ebay about what you believe are counterfeit goods. 3. Remember to send the package back with postage which includes a proof of posting/sign on receipt facility. The bag the box was wrapped in is irrelevant to your claim. When you received the goods, you were entitled to unwrap them.

Cheesehead, Don't worry about asking for advice - this is a considerable amount of money to pay for something which is not as it should be. What I am going to say is on the assumption that you are in the UK. Your recourse in law is against the seller, not the manufacturer - it doesn't matter if it is a manufacturer's fault. Think about it - if you went into a high street shop to buy a shirt which turned out to be faulty, you would receive the refund from the shop. The shop returns the faulty goods to the manufacturer who in turn would reimburse the seller. Because you bought on Ebay, you should be covered by the Distance Selling Regulations. I have copied a link which gives a brief explanation. http://www.out-law.com/page-430 Take a look at the Sale Of Goods Act 1979 with its definition of 'satisfactory quality'. <LI>‘Satisfactory quality’ is further defined by section 14(2B) of the 1979 Act, so that the quality of goods ‘includes their state and condition and the following (among others) are in appropriate cases aspects of the quality of goods – (a) fitness for all purposes for which goods of the kind in question are commonly supplied, ( appearance and finish, © freedom from minor defects, (d) safety, and (e) durability’. I have been a regular buyer on Ebay for six years, and my advice to you is to apply now for a Paypal refund now because the partial refund which is being offered to you does not put the goods as a whole into a state of 'satisfactory quality'. It is very easy to start the process and the site will guide you through it step by step - I've had to do it many times. You are give the opportunity to put your points, and the seller either refunds you immediately or puts his reply. If the dispute goes beyond a certain number of days without resolution, Paypal makes the final decision as to recompense. Tell the seller that the goods are not complete, and that you will return the discs to them for a full refund. In fact, what I have always done in the past is return the goods to the seller anyway (but make sure you send them by a tracking postal service) and claim your refund. That way you would have proof that the seller has received them back, and carry on claiming for your full refund. If you didn't pay by Paypal, start a refund claim under the Ebay refund system. If you get your money back, buy the goods from another source.

Hi 'Codyman70', Welcome to the site - hope you enjoy it. What you say about Boleskine is interesting. Would you possibly share with us here how you came to get inside the house. Were you a friend of the factor, Malcolm Dent? Did you ever get to meet Jimmy? When I was as school, us kids were taken on a geography field trip to a place called Lagganlia. This was December 1974. I asked the poor soul who was being paid to drive us around if he knew anything about Jimmy, and all he could say was that Jimmy was 'very popular with the local women'!!!

This is reported on Billboard. At least Jason would be keen. A comment at the end from a contributor says it wouldn't be a reunion because Jason was not a member of Zeppelin. Speaking only for myself - I'd be ecstatic if it happened - I couldn't care less that he wasn't an original member. http://www.billboard.com/events/i-d-love-a-led-zeppelin-reunion-jason-bonham-1004109040.story?tag=hpfeed#/events/i-d-love-a-led-zeppelin-reunion-jason-bonham-1004109040.story?tag=hpfeed

Did you pay by Paypal? If you don't receive your replacement item, you could make a Paypal claim, as long as you do it within the time limit.

Thanks PlanetPage and Alice 75. I thought it was commendable that Mr Hobbs didn't utter a word about any of the band's private business. It is quite a rare thing nowadays. There are photographs of Mr Hobbs on both his own page, and his condolence page, on a social networking site, but I don't think it is appropriate for me to post them here.

I told in my first posting on this site about the sad passing of Jimmy's personal assistant, Rick Hobbs earlier this year. Here is an article regarding the auctioning of some of Mr Hobbs' personal effects. 'Tucked inside Rick's Led Zeppelin LP covers, there were found four pencil sketches by the great Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais, believed to be gifts from the band for his devoted service.' There is also interesting detail about his work for, and relationship with, the band:- http://www.thisisthe...p_for_auction/. They’re expected to fetch £4,000 at an auction on Saturday, August 14. (Source: Classic Rock Magazine website)

Here's one of Scarlet and Tom together:-

This is truly trivia (or scraping the barrel, depending on your viewpoint!), but UK society magazine 'Tatler' states in its 2010 Restaurant Guide that Jimmy is a regular at Chutney Mary Indian restaurant on the Kings Road, London. A description from the 2009 Guide states 'It claims to be London's most romantic Indian restaurant and it isn't far off the mark. Coruscating crystals and candles light the dining room and conservatory and the food is extremely refined ('No more brown food on the plate,' is the mantra of co-owner Namita Panjabi). Chutney Mary is a very swish, smart restaurant that has for a long time been upping the ante for Indian food in London.' www.chutneymary.com

Hi Conneyfogle, Could you expand on what you mean by 'apparently Ross has his own people'. Have you been told that RH is involved in the site's development etc? It always looks to me like Ross has taken over Jimmy's life! My vote would go to Steve A Jones - he has an excellent writing style, is a dedicated fan and takes great care over the accuracy of what he writes. SAJ would bring a fresh perspective to the project.

Hi Toni, If you look a few topics down on this Led Zep Trivia forum, you will find a topic which I started when I found a posting on a groupie site by Bebe Buell. http://forums.ledzep...ks-about-jimmy/ Some of the ex-groupies have their own website, like Pamela Des Barres, which you could check out. A few of the girls (PDB and Lori Maddox) are on Facebook. They are also featured on the FamilyZepp website. Hope this helps.

Hi 'Duckman' Your experience with Halfin doesn't surprise me. At the premieres for 'It Might Get Loud', he was trying to stop fans taking photographs (outside in the open) when Jimmy was turning up at the theatres. He uses his association with Jimmy to keep himself in the limelight. I laughed at his diary entry for 11 June 2010 when he posted a new photograph of himself to try to attract women (his girlfriend dumped his earlier this year). He said "Here you go girls, slightly well-used, free and single..." At the same time, he put the new photo on his Facebook page - the sweet smell of desperation. He is mainly interested in women from the Far East. May I suggest to him that he visits the Edinburgh Festival because the LadyBoys of Bangkok are doing their annual show, and these guys may be the only ones that find RH in any way attractive.

Last night, Monday 26 July, the BBC were running a trailer for their forthcoming history programme, The Normans. They played the guitar intro from 'The Battle of Evermore' continuously throughout the ad (didn't feature the vocals). Here is a link about the programme:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/07_july/22/norman.shtml

Rolling Stone Keith Richards' gorgeous former model wife has beaten cancer of the bladder. Link from the UK Daily Mail below:- http://www.dailymail...tle-cancer.html

'Knebby' date='14 July 2010 - 08:33 AM' timestamp='1279096407' post='468889' Bob Geldof approached Robert. Robert told him he would consider it and let him know, as he would be on a US tour at the time and had commitments. Geldof then announced his name in the list of artists who would be appearing when he revealed the gig at a press conference - a typical Geldof trick, leaving the artist to risk looking like a jerk if they backed out. Geldof pulled the same trick with Madonna in 2005 at the 'Make Povery History' gig in London. He announced her appearance before she had the chance to do so, thereby committing her to perform. Madonna put Geldof in his place beautifully when she was interviewed backstage at the concert by Fearne Cotton. FC asked 'did Bob phone you to do the concert?' to which Madonna replied 'Bob doesn't have my phone number'. She then said that Geldof had had to go through mutual friends. I have never bought into the 'Saint' Bob thing, nor have I believed that his intentions were entirely altruistic. On Monday, the Daily Mail featured an excerpt from a book by showbusiness agent, Jon Roseman, which appears to confirm this contention to some extent. I've copied the relevant passage here:- "..... Thankfully, not every shoot was so problematic and I'm proud to have worked on some excellent videos, including one which promoted the Boomtown Rats' single I Don't Like Mondays in 1979. Everyone raved about it, including Bob Geldof, who never seemed to love anything very much except Paula Yates. But the band's popularity waned in the Eighties, leading to a curious encounter I had with Geldof in early 1985. It was a few months before the historic Live Aid concert burst onto the world's TV screens and I happened to be in New York visiting a friend at CBS Records. When I learned that Geldof was in one of the meeting rooms there, talking on the phone to one of the other Boomtown Rats, I popped in to say hello. Seeing me at the door, he waved at me to sit down and continued with his animated conversation. Listen we've got to do it,' I heard him say. 'It could be the way back for f***'s sake.' At the time, I thought it seemed that he might have seen Live Aid as a chance to revive the career of his band, as well as benefiting the people of Ethiopia. No one, including him, had any conception as to what an iconic event it would turn out to be ......" The rest of the article is off-topic for this thread, but it's worth reading for an insight into Roseman's dealings with the big names in rock. I've posted the link below:- www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1294148/Rod-mind-cocaine--I-breaking-Britt-Eklands-house-The-lurid-confessions-showbiz-insider.html#ixzz0tkdGKOQ4

Hi Danny, The subject of JPJ and JP not going to Karac Plant's funeral has rumbled on for years. I wish I had kept my Zeppelin newspaper cuttings because I am sure I remember reading some years after the funeral that Jimmy Page said he had written to Robert asking if he wanted him to attend. My recollection was that he couldn't understand why RP was now making out that he (JP) simply didn't attend. If John Paul Jones and Jimmy had turned up, it would have meant all four band members were present and the public might have taken photographs/asked for autographs at a small child's funeral. I think that both JP and JPJ are sufficiently well mannered to have made approaches as to whether their attendance at the funeral would be advisable. I realise that you have a contact who was/is very close to the band and, also, that lovely Knebby is a friend of Robert's, but I am going to say it anyway. What is worse JPJ and JP not attending a funeral, or Robert cheating on his wife and the mother of his children for years with a succession of groupies?

I've just done 60 votes and the pain is going all the way up to my shoulder - come on everybody - let's stuff Pink Floyd!

It might be difficult for people to share the photographs because they run the risk of damaging the book's binding/spine. If sharing pics is not possible, perhaps owners could give a description of any photos that shed any new light on Jimmy, or any revelations in his accompanying narrative (although I have my doubts if he will give anything new away).

To me, the entire flat looks like the bizarre design fantasy of a seriously unhappy child. There's an element of 'The Emperor's New Clothes' with some designers. If they are the 'designer of the moment', everyone will say how wonderful their work is, no matter how ghastly.

http://rockpopfashion.com/blog/?p=62 I found the above link featuring Paul Reeves who designed the interior of Peter Grant's Kensington Mews flat in the '70's on a money no object commission. The page shows the finished interior in Ideal Home magazine. The page brought back memories for me because I visited London as a teenager in May 1975 and went to the Biba store in Kensington which is featured on the page. My next stop was to the Equinox bookshop nearby. I've seen discussions on this site as to when this shop opened. I don't know the exact date, but what I can tell you is that it was definitely open in May 1975. I did not go inside because I knew that my teenage pocket money would not go anywhere near buying the very upmarket books in the window, and I would have been embarrassed if the famous owner was inside. They were not the type of books that you see in high street book shops. The window was covered so that you couldn't look past the books in the window into the shop, so I looked through the glass front door - the shop was definitely open for trade at that point. The interior was not crammed full of books, but the volumes that were there looked very expensive and rare. What struck me about the premises was that they were well maintained in terms of being freshly painted and refurbished, although in Holland Park I suppose that is what you would expect. In my home city, rare books shops tend to be a bit tatty, both inside and outside.

From the News of the World, Sunday 4 July:- http://www.newsofthe...ick-Jagger.html Some might say that this makes for good pre-release publicity for Keith's upcoming autobiography, but it looks like Keith isn't going to hold back. Humping Jack Trashed Rolling Stone Keith Richards exposes Mick Jagger in tell-all book By Douglas Wight, 04/07/2010 ROLLING Stone Keith Richards is taking an astonishing pop at Mick Jagger - in a book so savage management fear it could split the band for good. In his autobiography the guitarist blasts the group's pout-lipped frontman for his wild love life, drug-taking and infidelity. Insiders say Keith has already been asked to tone down the book, called Life, after an early draft was deemed too close to the bone. But it is still feared the final version, out in October, could mean the 66-year-old rockers - who famously did not speak for three years in the '80s after a row - can NEVER work together again. Last night a source close to the band, famous for songs like Jumping Jack Flash, said: "In the draft Keith didn't hold back on Mick. It was years of frustration coming out. "He's used it to set the record straight on Mick's philandering, the affairs, the drug-taking and the fights. It promises to be dynamite. "It's thought management asked him to tone it down but he's been determined to tell it his way." It is believed Keith - wed to wife Patti Hansen since 1979 - has long disapproved of Mick's chaotic love-life. Jagger has fathered seven kids by four women and had flings with beauties including Angelina Jolie and Carla Bruni. Keith has spent three years writing the memoir after signing a £3.6million deal with publishers Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Our source added: "It will be huge. Keith used to joke that he couldn't remember half the things he'd done but his memory seems fine - and that's bad news for Mick."

Not kidding at all! The NME turned on Zeppelin and their ilk in the late '70's, when NME journalists were taken in by punk. Any musician over the age of 25 was being referred to as 'a boring old fart'. The fact that the journalists writing the pieces were also over 25 seemed to have escaped them. I remember the NME in the early/mid-70's and 'hate' is not a word I would have used regarding their treatment of Zeppelin in those days. I had a lengthy conversation in the 1990's with Nick Kent regarding Zep. He usually interviewed Page and was on The Starship on their '75 US tour. He did not say anything at all disparaging about their music. He described Jimmy Page as 'a lost soul'. The only reservations he expressed to me were about John Bonham (as a person, not musically) and Richard Cole, the latter whom he described as 'a servant'. Nick's a nice bloke - he is going to be at the Edinburgh Book Festival this year discussing his last book about the 70's music scene.