Grateful Dead

Hey, thanks to all who sent me PMs. I just realized I had them and how to check them. Geez I could have missed out on tix! I will be checking my messages daily now... Rock on and congrats to all those who made it (getting tix)! The fans here have really cheered me up the past few days.

Anyone out there have there MO cash by GDTSTOO would like to know please post on this Dead.net sight people out there that got tickets have a real good time you were real lucky to get tickets.

We got our pink slip today, postmarked March 2.

Did you get an email or rejection letter yet, or still in limbo?

Very cool, Jim, that's is the serendipity way to get to see the boys. Loved your story. 1972 was a great year too...Did you fall in love with Donna?

That's likely just somebody who doesn't really want to sell their ticket, but put it on the market for an astonomical price hoping there is some fool out there willing to pay it. If you are truly worried, buy a behind the stage tix for $500-700. That gets you into the show and gives you peace of mind for the next 4 months. Otherwise, wait it out. Prices will come down when tix are in hand. The Jerry tribute will take the pressure off sales. Those go on sale the 9th I think. A simulcast will also take the pressure off sales.

"...and the things that we fear is a weapon to be held against us." - Neal Peart I was afraid to go, big city, never been there, don't know my way around. I was afraid to go by myself and as I can find no friends to make the trip with me and the wife really isn't interested. My biggest fear was not getting tickets and the other fears were moot if I didn't have a ticket. I no longer fear these things. So many cool deadheads will be there and there will be other deadheads at my hotel. I may get to meet up with some folks here from the forum (would be totally sweet!) I can blend in with the deadhead crowd and there's safety in numbers. I can share a cab/van from the hotel to the show(s) so that shouldn't be a problem having to travel alone back and forth to the venue. There will be places to hang out for the shows that I don't have tix for as long as I get at least 1 to get in 1 time. People are PM-ing me and being kind. Things are looking up and possibilities are out there!

Okay, I feel like an idiot. I don't know how to access PM either but apparently there are a few pending there for me -- can you enlighten me?

Pink Slips have come fast and furious today like gangbusters. The Facebook limbo site has many, many sad faces. Was in a cold sweat until mail arrived today..safe another day. FYI, there are some suites at Soldier Field going on a bid process. $1500 p/p for all three nights with 20 people. No food or beverage but it has a bathroom. Sounds great to me!

While signed in, click "my account" at the top of the page. That will get you to your profile and PM inbox.

Got it!

Where did you see these suites for bud at Soldier Field?

...that I'm still willing to trade 7/2 and 7/3 hotel room for 2 tickets for 7/3. Please PM if you may know of anyone who feels comfortable doing it this way. Not sure yet how we figure out the logistics, but where's there's a will... No SASE in the mailbox yet, but I'm losing hope reading these latest posts.

Forget it, the price went up to 30K a night. No way. Just another scalper I suppose. I am getting really tired of these scalpers.

SNAFU, apologies.Didn't know there were 2 of these pages.

Suites for bud???

No business being done here.

Hey all- SirKlang is good...the original post should have read "Suites for Bid" and got misspelled (imho)...he was just asking for clarification. Ok, where was i...oh yes, TMing

Meant to type suites for bid, not bud....but there going for stupid money now - like this whole gig has turned out to be. Going down the road, feeling sad....

It would have been a suite deal for sure... (to the moderators, I was not suggesting anything illegal here just to clarify) Funny isn't it though? It's illegal to smoke bud (in most places) but not illegal to charge $116,000 for tickets to a concert. There's something really wrong with knowing this...

This is the one to be at. Sorry, you guys get trey. lol

my MO's have been cashed, but i have not received an email. i either have tickets or my MO's were stolen. my MO's were cashed on 2/24 or 2/25. i am going to go to my post office soon and see who cashed it and where. hopefully, all is good. if not, i think i can get most of the money back if i file a little report with the post office. no matter what, i will be at these shows, smiling, loving, and dancing. you can't keep a good hippie down. i am not worried about scalpers because i don't play that game. my girl and i will get in for face or less, because that is just what we do. we have never bought or sold over face and only sell face or less. we give and get miracles because we believe in them. keeping vibes positive and my ray gun pointed at the sun. see you all in chicago. to all the negative posters- please relax. to all the positive heads- thanks for keeping the spirit true and alive. we will survive.

Nice..... Guess there is hope after all, and you got no email? :-) :-) :-)

yeah,man. no email. i have tried to contact gdtstoo, but those folks are in over their heads and i got the auto-reply. i have nothing but empathy and patience for that crew- ain't no time to hate. if i go to my post office and they give me a scan of my MO, i may fax it over to gdtstoo and see if they recognize the signature, name, etc. i am hoping the best.

WOW THAT'S CONFIDENCE! If you can get face value tix and can spread the wealth a little bit, properledji and I need help and REALLY want to be part of this party. A couple of tickets to 1 show would definitely get the party started for us. Please help us out if you can. If not, good luck and enjoy the show(s)!

Just keep truckin' on brother!

i will keep an update of my progress and correspondence with gdtstoo and post it on here. please do the same if you think about it. thanks! see you in CHI!

Going to be traveling To London in May to see Clapton at the Royal Albert Hall. anyone on this board across the pond?? Couple of two cents to add to the discussions I realize that was is out there for for sale is now inflated in price and (forgive the pun) scalpers have stealed the face (value), but if they pave paradise, put up a parking lot!! It will be amazing to shake my bones in Chicago and I'm sure that's is largely a shared sentiment by many.

So this is the email I just got (15 mins ago) from Elvis...for those of you in limbo. "Site is updated, David, and the following is what I'm telling folks at this time: Hi Folks, We are still feverishly returning money orders to those not fortunate to get tix. All winners have been contacted by email. A few bounced back emails are being processed and it will take us a few weeks to create a data base to match them up. No need to contact us until April, and, by then you will or will not have received your order back, so it should narrow the field. Thank you for your patience and understanding during this Deluge. Elvis and the GDTS Crew" So the same as the bounced email...soon this should be on the page too...

Isn't that the same ol same ol? Maybe I missed something....

Have 3 night stays at the Intercontinental Mag Mile, and also at the Tremont for 3 nights as well. Please help a brother out!!! Trade for any real offers, I have airfare payed and need to be at these shows! Peace Pot and microdot.....

Camping at lake mead morning dip to dust off my bones.off to the show .introduced to dave Matthews and to So many roads ..was electric..thank you greatful dead for the long lasting memories and music!!

As I ponder this message from Elvis. I have to conclude that these "few bounced back emails being processed" is not a few, but how many? It eludes that "all" selected were emailed yet from my sampling, about 40% of us should get pinky in the next three weeks. I know a ton of people in limbo. As I ask around, it is about 50/50.

Hey I am in limbo waiting, I guess for that dreaded pinky. Wondering about your post, do you think the "bounced back emails" will be filled with tix? Do you think I have some glimmer of hope that I could still get tix??!!

@rgergelis it is - I was really only pointing out that the website should reflect this comment now. As for those of you that are STILL in limbo, there is a very good chance if you don't get your pinky this week or early next. You may have been one of the bounce back emails - an email is a good thing based on what I have read here...keep checking your mailbox and if it isn't there in a week or so, I think you may be dancin' in Chicago! I would now be asking myself - do I print a little shaky? Is it possible I misspelled something in my email?!?!? Good luck those of you still waiting (we're pulling for you!) To be clear - I am not in limbo and was completely shut out...so those of you who score and lose a companion on the trip...I have beer, good vibes and will travel! Peace

This is Blake you might left your e-mail off the card i don't think someone cash them or bounce back or stamp.I just hope yo get them. Thank you so much i am in the same boat you so i think we are going to get them. I never did not get my MO Take care hope we are all in the party.

mabe i left out the e-mail or left the stamp off or bounce back. i am just hoping and no mo cash hope i see every at the shows.

Could be any number of reasons - I would look more to the email address, either a slight shakiness to the writing or left it off completely. I am a Canuck who put his $2 into one MO for tix (vainly assuming my order would be filled) and they just sent my MO back - they bought the international stamp for me since there was no way to break that off of the MO they didn't cash. Hang in there man, like I said, if you don't see anything in your mail in like a week, the chances you are in will be going up infinitely. In fact, I would suggest that for each day you don't see a pink slip, the chances go up that you were one of the people they couldn't contact by email. Good luck

Been watching ticket sales on eBay. So far 47 sales with a high of $11,300 for 2 3 Day Field Passes. I don't believe prices will go down. The market will level to 5 times face. Prime seats will command money. Most sales will happen well before July. What I am seeing from reading posts and resale of tickets is that many are on sale from Chicago PSL ticket holders, brokers and Deadheads. Yes, DEADHEADS. Many want to finance their tickets and final road trip from a couple of extras. The people who are buying are not only people with money, but people who are planning a once in a lifetime trip. Think Super Bowl. Tickets are $750 and $1500 face. Hotel $400 plus per night. Airfare $250. Before you even have a beer and dog; you have dropped $4300 per couple. Just saw a 3 day ticket for $1425 sold. Not a bad price. Consider face at $100 plus so your paying $475 per ticket per show, not the end of this world. Watching Dead at Roosevelt Stadium Aug 1976 on YouTube. Very cool. The guys look so young. I was young. Laid back show. How I miss the tuning of instruments between a couple of songs. Passing the wacky tobacky. Fun. Waiting like a school girl for that phone call or email from Elvis, GDTSTOO or Jerry telling me I have two. beautiful thing.......

There is no way that so many f'd up there email. There has got to be more to the story. If you ask people you know...add up how many got pinky and how many are still in limbo... There are thousands in limbo, no way it was a few bounced emails... OR they are reeeaaal slow at returning SASE with MO's back.

I think some folks just entered some of the email wrong into their database in between toke and pass lol.......

That is why I say wait a week. By then there should have been sufficient time for all of the pink slips to come back. I think those thousands in limbo will not be in thousands but hundreds by this time next week. Give the guys at GDTS a break - they had a rough go. I certainly wouldn't want to be the one to tell all of these people you can't go...that would be a major bummer. I think we need to cut these guys some slack, no one could have foreseen 60k+ letters. I certainly didn't think there would be that many. I would've spent more time on my envelope art! Speaking of envelope art, I am hoping that one or two of the winners will be on here and post their winning art (or GDTS to post them) so that the rest of us can see what the tix will look like (though that IS counterfeit fodder come to think of it... :/

I like the way your thinking Velveteen. It wouldn't be too hard on them to come out and perform a few songs with String Cheese at Red Rocks or Telluride... Still no pink slip or email here starting to wonder if they could see the . between my two names. I know when I enter a string of emails I am bound to miss a letter or transpose two, very understandable considering how many they had to enter. Does anyone know the name of the facebook limbo page? Speaking of typos in the Chicago Tribune article with Shapiro there was a quote that police would be "preserving disorder". That made me stop and think, typo or a friendly way of saying they will embrace the disorder? Sounded good to me!

I have a renewed sense of HOPE that I screwed up my email on that 3 X 5 card!!! It would be awesome to get tix in June!!! I will be the happiest person dancin in the streets !!! I hope I can be with you all in Chicago!!!

Im not knocking them, just trying to figure out whats up. Im not saying its BS...just hopeful. I spoke to 10 people, 6 still no pinky no email. The only emails I have heard are on here.

Can these weasles on ebay just get 2 or 3 accounts and just fake running up the bids?

Someone mentioned Earlier that their Money Orders had been Cashed in February. Was wondering best way to find out if Money Orders were cashed.I used USPS and have recieved Confirmation E-mail,.. I'm trying to figure out which set of Money Orders were cashed, so I can figure out what Tix I got, and also if I have Money coming back, that I can use towards trip. Thanks for any advice. Also Good luck to everyone in Limbo,...I hope you are pleasantly surprised.

marye, that is a pretty amazing story! I hadn't heard of it before but that is certainly a bit more dramatic than your run-of-the-mill "may the four winds blow you safely home" story. I'm glad to hear Jack rose to the challenge. We have a family of pilots, and knock on wood, only my brother has had to put it down in an unplanned fashion. He landed on a dry lake bed named "White Lake" so I don't know what cosmic forces might have been implicated in that situation. He's been to a few shows over the years, so maybe that helped! Thanks for the great story.

Just a thought, the error may not necessarily be our issue, it may be the kind folks at GDTSTOO who mistyped. A confirmation....human error can occur on both ends....

Anyone know the situation with the Philzone.? I have tried to login a couple times I the last 4 months but forgot my password. The site won't let me reset, recover or sign up for a new account. All emails to the administrator come back as undeliverable. Help!