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My original beef, my cause for consternation, wasn't with the prices of the tickets but with the customer experience I had to endure at the virtual hands of the ticket sales vendor whom I view as a subcontractor. Don't offer me a pair of floor seats for The Dead at MSG unless you intend to and are capable of delivering them. That's not nice. Or kind. I did everything I was supposed to do in my role as the customer, and their process failed. I (and apparently many others) didn't. Adding to my frustration is that I am a software developer. Most of the software I work on is partitioned, client server style, network style, web style. Virtually all of it is used to collect, process, record and report on transactions for financial services companies. Much of it deals with orders of magnitude greater volume than was generated by the pre-sale, all day, every day. So when I get the short end of the stick courtesy of some other developer's shoddy code, it's doubly annoying. Especially when I can tell that they've relied on technologies I would never even consider using for such an application due to their inadequacy to the task. When I had calmed down a bit and accepted my fate, I actually googled the error message I got which was utterly memorable as it's such a classic example of Microspeak: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." For those of you not up to speed on Microspeak, or OO programming in general, allow me to translate into English: "Oops, guess I shouldn't have reassigned that chunk of memory you were using. But I did, and whatever you had stored there is gone. Too bad. You lose." Anyway, sure enough, there it was, a known bug documented in the knowledgebase. For the morbidly curious, see for yourself! For the rest of you hopefully more sane and less anal people, hope you got the tickets you wanted and have a great time at the show or shows you make it to. As for me and the rest of us who got closed out, well, maybe our luck will be better during the public sale. And if you actually made it through all the above technobabble without your head exploding, you're either another software geek or you obviously didn't go to enough shows. Peace out, folks, and be kind. Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.

which could certainly be the case, the pre-sale vendor's inventory is sold out, not all inventory. I suspect that GDTS was given allotments for each show that are a separate portion of the inventory, and another block has been held back for the "public" sale. Again, I'm just guessing here, I'm no authority. Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.

If you haven't sent them already you may be a little late in the postmark parade. But if they can't hook you up, you will get your money orders back. GDTS is righteous that way. Best bet at this stage is probably the "public" sale. Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.