From: dahoov2@cox.net   
      
   PS are there tickets for people with disabilities?  Just curious.  Say   
   you were taking someone with a heart condition or something... are   
   there some reserved and what do you have to do to get them.   
      
   On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:15:06 -0400, Sue H  wrote:   
      
   >after calculations for the cost of the trip, we know it'll be over a   
   >grand to go (just over) so we're still considering it.  I have nothing   
   >scheduled for that weekend but it may be my grandbaby week...or the   
   >Billy Joel concert I just bought damned expensive tickets for.   
   >   
   >Anyway, speaking of tickets, I get so mad every time I get tickets.   
   >But each time it seems to get WORSE than the previous time.   
   >   
   >So like Saturday morning at 10 am I am poised at my keyboard waiting   
   >to buy tickets.  All my attempts to get presale tickets fail.  At 10   
   >exactly I hit BUY and it loads real quick (shocking, usually clogged   
   >and takes a couple tries). I immediately hit 2 tickets and best   
   >available is the choice default so all I gotta do is hit buy and the   
   >tickets are mine right?!  So I hit buy and shockingly I get two "best   
   >available" tickets at tickemaster!  woo hoo right?!  WRONG. I wasn't   
   >on there 3 seconds max and boom.  Second section, which is actually   
   >third section.  WHAT?????? ALL the Orchestra and first level seat were   
   >gone.  That's thousands?  In three seconds?  Give me a damned break.   
   >   
   >Then I see what is called "auction" on ticketmaster, where you can bid   
   >on Orchestra seats.  To disguise their deceptive practice of being   
   >unable to do this, they add "plastic laminate badge" (which allows you   
   >NOTHING; it's just a laminate badge to make you look important... you   
   >don't get discounts, you don't get to meet the band, you don't get   
   >free parking, you don't get ANYTHING) and you get one piece of   
   >"official merchandise).  So what is essentially a ticket price and a   
   >Tshirt price or program or CD price, you are paying 4 times the   
   >price... WHAT A SCAM.  No charity either.  NOTHING I could see... just   
   >a complete way of using tickets so others can't have good seats.   
   >   
   >Every year it's worse and worse. Started with almost all the orchestra   
   >seats being taken by radio, family, and other VIPS.  Then moved to   
   >"corporate" world absconding with the rest of those and some first   
   >level seating.  Then went into these people who buy presale tickets   
   >and buy dozens to resell at double the price.  They have pretty much   
   >taken up all the rest of the remaining good seats (including 200 level   
   >too) and now this auction for the last remaining seats.  Next year, my   
   >guess is you'll be lucky to get SRO/Grass passes.   They'll probably   
   >start doing tailgate parties in the parking lot.   
   >   
   >Oh, and my 99 dollar tickets?  Two of them ended up costing me 249   
   >when it was over.   49 bucks in fees!  And no, that doesn't include   
   >parking or 8 dollar cups of beer.  When will the madness end!   
   >   
   >On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 22:50:25 -0500, "pe2"  wrote:   
   >   
   >>Hey Gang-   
   >>   
   >>Check out the entrance page on Duke Fest.com. I have both autographs from   
   >>Rick Hurst and John Schneider, but not on a lunch box!!!!!   
   >>   
   >>http://www.dukesfest.com/   
   >>   
      
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