gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (dancing bear)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2002-10-13 10:22 am

Well, damn.

I went down to Ticketbastard to grab our tickets for The Other Ones (yes, Kiri, you were going too.. surprise winter gift.)

I'm about the 15th person in line, and we're a good old-fashioned Deadhead reunion, when they open. Suddenly, things begin going wrong. First I find out that the price on the website was an error. Tickets cost $42.50 each, not $24.50. With charges, that takes us over $100 for the two of us. Not enough money to cover that after I picked up my meds yesterday.

Then before it ever becomes an issue, they announce that the shows have sold out! Ten minutes! There were at that point about forty of us in line who let out a collective "say what?" as the clerk raised the sell-out sign.

Thanks to everyone who sent funds, we'll figure out methods of repayment soon.

Ten fucking minutes. Unreal.

[identity profile] cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com 2002-10-13 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
One wonders how many of the tickets were presold through other outlets. Or, for that matter, if the guy up front was a corporate scalpreseller who opened up a suitcase and said, "I'll take one thousand, please."

[identity profile] valkyrwench.livejournal.com 2002-10-14 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
Online tickets sold out, too?