Grateful Dead

Hello All, As someone that never trusted the postoffice enough to do mail order, I was the guy that was always willing to show up and stand on line to buy tickets for the small group of friends I went to shows with. In keeping with that tradition, I looked at these shows the same way, unwilling to trust the postoffice with a pile of money, though I was and still am willing to stand on line, virtual or otherwise, to get tickets to these shows. With that said, I have to say I am in a state of shock to find out today that the "ticket purchasing rules" have been changed mid-dance. Given that the number of reported envelopes received is about the same as available seats and that many, if not all, of those envelopes will want more than one ticket per show, this is telling me that there will not be enough seats for the mail orders and that there will be no tickets remaining for any presale or public sale, with AXS or Ticketmaster. Granted, the powers that be can do anything they want to, but it really isn't right to exclude those of us that always stood on line to buy tickets, we paid for those tickets too. I won't buy from scalpers (and if I had an extra ticket because one of my friends couldn't make the show, I always gave it away for a smile), so it looks like these shows might be over for me before they even start. I sure hope no one waiting to get tickets via AXS or Ticketmaster has paid for any non-refundable airline tickets or hotels, which I was very close to doing myself. It's a sad day here in Los Angeles and I can only hope this news is just a bad dream. To everyone that does get tickets, enjoy the shows! Tom Carr Los Angeles, CA

Did you do mail order?

In my experience, those folks are pretty darn conscientious. Good luck to them in dealing fairly and gracefully with the deluge!