Grateful Dead

Scalpers stopped buying when the tax laws changed for selling online.

Pittsburgh '69 '79 '81?

Can someone, please, fix the store.. ?

FWIW, the store appears to be working on my iPhone and MacBook using Safari. It does not work using Chrome on my MacBook. I do not have Chrome on my iPhone, so I can’t test it there.
I’ll boot up my work laptop and try there and report back.

Edit: On my Windows (work), laptop the store appears to be working using Chrome, Edge and Firefox browsers. YMMV.

It had never occurred to me that cds/box sets weren't selling out so quickly because scaplers no longer bought them. Good news for punters - but maybe not as good for deadnet? I guess if you are selling something it is more important that people buy the object than what they do with it after they have done so.

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Thanks for that info - maybe there's a chance I can score a DaP1 or FW69 at a reasonable price, still holding out for a brownbag rerelease of those titles though I have them both digitally and on vinyl...

I'll continue to subscribe to DaP with the earlybird special every fall - $25 a show - no brainer...

Yes
Automatic delivery
No FOMO via monitoring site
Bonus disc
Birthday present 4 times per year

I'm logged in on Chrome on a Macbook as we speak and the Store is working fine for me. If you are still having issues, please send me a PM with the details so we can figure this out! Thanks!

Hi Marye - I go to the store from my PC - have no idee what it uses, be it CHROME or something, but for the 2 day in a row it (the store) is all black (or rather white..) - I need to order BfA ... BW from Copenhagen

Chrome, no go from my PC.
Edge, seems to be working.
I was able to order early yesterday with no problem using Chrome, but later in the day the Store went all white screen.
I've PM'ed Marye with this info.
Cheers

EDIT - My DaP 55 shipping notice (from yesterday) has a button for View Order which of course also leads you to the blank white screen. Not tracking yet by the way, just "label created".

From tax act dot com:

For tax year 2024, eBay and other online payment platforms are only required to report transactions to the IRS once you hit an annual threshold of $5,000 in gross payments with no transaction minimum. Prior to 2024, the threshold was $20,000 and at least 200 transactions.

This change is part of a phase-in process by the IRS to eventually implement the $600 threshold originally brought about by the American Rescue Plan.

2025 and 2026 Form 1099-K thresholds

Starting in 2025, the threshold will lower again to $2,500.

In 2026 the threshold will be $600 unless the IRS makes more changes

So, scalpers will have to pay tax.

There are people who stopped subscribing and just go ala carte, but the loss of scalpers is probably the biggest reason that releases sell slower than before the tax change.

I appreciate the follow-up. I was able to order the BFA 50th on my phone, so I'm good. I had just posted what was and was not working for me in case that would help any of the other users.
Cheers!

Dennis,

Do you order the marbles?

....I rarely accuse dead net of cash grabbing.
But this one? Yeah.

Seriously? No Bueno. It seems that they will license just about anything these days...

He ha ha, funny entendre yadda yada. Seriously though,...
.....Them marbles should've been something way far out and psychedelic. Not just regular looking generic stuff, they should've really been unique. The pouch the marbles come in seems cooler actually.

Oh!!

I'm using Chrome on my laptop and all banners on main page work except the store banner. The store banner goes to white screen

Still not working..

Where can I get a set? I need new ones!

For those of you still having issues with the Store page, try clearing your browser history. I cleared the browser history on my MacBook using Chrome and that fixed the issue.
Marbles? Really?

Edit: UPS is saying I should have Dave's 55 by Saturday.

If you do need some replacement marbles you’ll have to hurry since there are only 250 sets available.
My copy of DaP #55 has apparently arrived at Heathrow customs this morning, at least it’s in the right country.

EDIT: Yes, clearing the cache on my iPad has worked. Thanks for the suggestion.

Clearing the cache did it. Thanks Ronmarley1.

Yeah my old set was a limited numbered edition!

Lost my marbles years ago.

Now an axe......

Still issues with "The Store". Won't open up from this page, opened on my phone and tablet. Gonna try the clear history thing.

UPDATE - That did seem to work. Thanks guys (Ron?)

Usually when I need to clear it some of the features just aren't there like the search field, but this time that was not the case.
Yes, it did work but...
There is still no account sign in.
Still no purchase history.
Still no order status.
But these features have been gone for a while now?
A Fleetwood Mac song comes to mind. Oh Well!
Two lines in particular! (can you guess?)
Cheers
My DaP 55 showing Monday (always iffy)

My copy of Dave's 55 has just landed in København when I had expected that it would change planes in Köln as usual. As long as it finally ends up at my house I'm not bothered.

Still working my way through this. I notice that disc 27 will not play track 1 on my cd player. I put it into my Blu-ray player and it played perfectly. Life has it’s little surprises.

.....also learned Chuck Mangione died, Malcolm-Jamal Warner from The Cosby Show and George Kooymans of Golden Earring all passed recently as well. Ozzy took the spotlight.
Rough week for children of the '80's.

Ozzy and George Kooymans both got equal attention here in the Netherlands. Two more great losses.

It worked!! Thanks guys

Nugs will stream all three GGP D&C shows including the opening acts.

Yes, I saw that. Might check it out.

I did receive an Email that they still had some tickets available.

General Admin tickets: $635
VIP: $1,725
Golden Road VIP: $6,346

Man, things have sure changed since I was seeing the Dead in the mid to late 80s.

Seems kind of high to me, but God bless them if they can find people willing to fork over this kind of cash.

Would love to see them, but on Nugs might be the best option for me.

FUCK. THAT.

Do what you want, but that is beyond "ahh...no, bro." I love you guys, but you surviving members of the band don't need the money that bad. Sheesh.

this world gets fuckter every day. I won't give details, but I witnessed something very traumatic on the way to work today that cemented my cynical attitude. Then I see shit about $650 - $6000+ tickets.

I'm ready to check out of this realm.

Wait for me!

Way back in the distant past, more specifically from 1970 onwards, I would regularly go to see bands. Often they would be top bands, sometimes they would be less successful but still well known. Almost always there would be a support band. Ticket prices were easily affordable for me as a teenager. The audience consisted almost exclusively of teenagers or people in their twenties. Looking at the current absurd ticket prices, I have to ask who can afford them? Surely not the same demographic as 50-55 years ago so who exactly makes up the audience these days? Who can afford such ticket prices? I'm pretty sure they can't go to a gig every week like I used to. Now that I'm old and have done alright I could afford to go to a gig like that once a year, but I wouldn't on principle. I know it's pointless to expect bands or promoters to justify their ticket prices but I have a strong suspicion they couldn't. I still try to live by the principles I grew up with back then. Obviously not everybody does that. I am not about to reward them.

....dont forget to bring your marble bag!
Ticket prices haven't been the same since The Eagles When Hell Feezes Over reunion tour. Promoter thought "I wonder if people will pay these prices."
They did. Thank you for attending my TED talk.

The Eagles have an awful lot to answer for. As does David Geffen.

There are people who will pay the price!

These are the same people that complain the economy sucks!

.....ha!
Bonus points if you get that reference.
55 shipping notice in my inbox.

No rush, the ETR Box is keeping me busy.

BFA 50th and a new JGB in the near future, then DaP 56 followed by the 2026 subscription announcement.
Things are looking good in Dead Land.
(Still haven’t given the new DP4 vinyl a spin).

Think I will do the D&C Nugs stream.

Jim Mora

38 years ago I was up in Oakland to see Bob Dylan play with the Grateful Dead, and it was a fantastic show! The Dead played one long set before Dylan came out and they were rocking! Just to see Garcia play pedal steel was worth the price of admission.

.....marble sack incoming.
Need address.

I have the ticket here for when I saw Black Sabbath at Manchester Hardrock 3/11/73 - £1.25. The Hardrock was split down the middle, seats on the left ,"festival seating", aka sitting on the floor on the right. I had a seat, so it would have been cheaper sitting on the floor. Having long legs, festival seating was never something I successfully mastered. My knees always seemed to be up by my ears.

But I digress - The Stones at Belle Vue Manchester 9/12/73 was only £1.65. I can remember when I saw Gong around the same time it cost the princely sum of 0.40p.

January 16, 1971 saw me and my friends at the South Parade Pier in sunny Southsea. We were there to see Dada with Robert Palmer, Yes, who were promoting The Yes Album that would be released the following month, and topping the bill were Iron Butterfly who were joined by members of Yes for a jam at the end of their set. It was a great gig and a great evening, all for the princely sum of £0.60. Those were the daze.

Curiously, although it only cost £1.65 to see The Stones in 1973, it cost £9.50 to see them in Leeds in 1982. The latter show was outdoors, but it was only going from early afternoon to about 10.30pm. I would have though The Stones popularity would have dropped significantly between those two dates, but maybe it hadn't as a live draw. They did have a hit single -"Start Me Up" round about '82.

One of the loudest gigs I ever heard was when I saw Black Sabbath at Union House, the Portsmouth Polytechnic students union building on May 2, 1970. It was in support of their recently released first album. They were so loud and the cavernous ex-Territorial Army drill hall amplified the sound so much that residents living miles away complained en masse about the noise. After that, the City Council banned all gigs at Union House until the building could be soundproofed. I don't think that ever happened. My ears were ringing for days afterwards. It was a truly memorable event, my introduction to live heavy music. The name "heavy metal" came some years later.