Grateful Dead

Not a fiasco at all, this is going the same way all Grateful Dead ticket sales have always gone. You have to remember that the TM sales was always the primary sale, just like 90% of all events these days. GDTS was always a courtesy service in an effort to get some tickets in the hands of Kind people and keep those same tickets out of the hands of profiteers. They (and by extension the ill-conceived online pre-sale) only had maybe 1/3 of the tickets just like always. Hopefully they go a little more by opening up the floor. No sense getting pissed off at the band, promoters or GDTS they are only trying to do a good thing. Perhaps in hindsight they should’ve just republished the 93 mail order instructions this time around, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~./gdead/faq/tickets.html or at least included the Paragraph: “GDTS mail orders are processed on a first come, first served basis by the date your order was POSTMARKED. However, if there are more postmarked orders for the first mail order date than tickets, GDTS will collect all those ticket orders and employ a random selection process for filling orders. The key here is to get your mail order postmarked on the first day of mail order for the show you want. For example, if the mail order date is December 28, go to your post office and have a postal employee hand postmark your order on that day. Remember: it's illegal for the post office to postmark any date other than the current day” It might have helped clarify some things. Good luck on Saturday friends, (I need some too.) Hope to see you there.

I received the white letter from CA stating that I did not make the cut. I mailed from Virginia on time but was not optimistic after learning of the huge response to mail order. I'm thinking of trying on-line 28 Feb. But, to be honest, the way the process to date has been managed seems to be a bit amateurish. I know that sounds like sour grapes but I have a pit in my stomach that at the end of the day, people are going to get burned for some serious cash. Good luck.

not for sure imailed like everyone else on 20th not for sure when my envelop arrived in cal if it even made it!!!! some got there on 21st and if ur mailing from like Hawaii who knows plus how long does it take pinky or white to travel back hear-say is if we make through this week lookin good but u got to realize could b in mail I wont relax till I get my miracle e-mail