Grateful Dead

I really got to thank the awesome people on Deadnet, I got two GA tickets for face value and am now splitting a hotel from some kind heads! These shows are going to be a great, feeling blessed. Real glad I held out and didn't buy from a scalper.

why is directv only showing 2 nights from Chicago????

I sensed a bit of sarcasm in your post, but maybe I was wrong? Just to be clear... I'm very glad to be able to go to these shows. I'm planning on having a splendid time. I'm very well aware that I was fortunate to get tickets through mail order, and that lots of our brothers and sisters weren't so lucky. I wish everyone who wants to go could do so, and I have absolutely NO ill feeling toward the band and its members, etc. But let's be straight here. The band is being paid a sum certain to play these last shows. It is one of the many costs for the promoter to put on these shows. However, I totally agree with what bigtim voiced earlier. When Shapiro saw the overwhelming response, he saw an opportunity to squeeze more money out of this event. He changed the seating scheme (after we'd all sent in our money orders) by opening up the field totally to GA, thereby being able to sell more tickets. In the meantime, he took lots of us who were in for whatever price we could get through mail order for the most $$ he could, selling us "$200" tickets, but seating us in areas where the ticket prices were advertised as being less expensive. That is the very definition of a bait and switch. He took advantage of the overwhelming demand (a demand that he, as "one of us" as he so fervently claims to be, should have known originally would be there) after the announcement and the initial response to the mail order, to reconsider and figure out how he could make some extra money out of this gig. Problem is... he'd already made an offer, setting ticket prices in particular areas of the stadium, which thousands of us accepted. Then he completely skewed the ticket assignments to put us wherever he damn-well pleased, the original deal be damned. That "extra money" that he's generating goes directly in his pocket, not the band's. I will go have a blast, love every minute of it, but still seek to recover the difference between the ticket prices for the seats I got at the time the offer was made and accepted, and the ticket price that I was actually charged. If I did anything other than that, I'd simply be saying that it's okay for Shapiro to take advantage of fans of the Grateful Dead, and its okay for someone to attempt to defraud thousands of people for his own financial gain. Some people who are going to great lengths to attend these shows don't really have the money. They're making sacrifices because they love this band, and if they were overcharged even $50/ticket, it makes a big difference in their financial lives. Fortunately, I'll be okay, either way, but it's the principal of it. If I thought for a minute any refunded money would be coming out of the band's pockets, I would have to rethink my whole position on this, but I suppose the same principals apply, regardless of the beneficiary.