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Hi there, doing an online business can be very difficult these days. Thank you.

Has anyone ever done business with an online vendor called "Dead Hats"?

https://www.gratefuldeadland.com/
https://www.instagram.com/deadhats/

I bought two hats from them back in September, but they've been nothing but evasive ever since. I finally had to get uptight with them, which sucked and really stressed me out, but at least they responded to my email for a change. It's back to radio silence from Dead Hats and afaik still they haven't shipped the hats they owe me.

Seems like there are a bunch of SNS influencers who get their gear, but not me.

Should have asked about them here before I sent them money.

Thanks for any advice.

http://web.archive.org/web/20020121215020/http://home.earthlink.net/~pg… remember the oatmeal choc chip raisin banana cookie.
"Whose Oatmeal/Chocolate Chip/Raisin/Banana Cookies are Legendary"
Steve Silberman & David Shenk, Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads

I bought my most fave dyes, and I still wear it!!, at a Shakedown in the 80s, a grilled cheese and a cold beer and I remember thinking...damn. If we could just live this way every. single. day. THIS is a huge piece of what it means to be a Deadhead to me. The people. The community. I know nothing and nobody is perfect. But...but...come the zombie apocalypse couldn't we form Deadhead communes instead of Walking Dead style lives?

I developed my fondness for good craft and/or imported beers and ales at Shakedown. I noticed that I had never seen nor heard of many of the labels I spotted with the vendors (way back when). Well, I tried one or two or more on occasion, and decided these beers are tasty. Hard to go back to American pilsner when you've had the original Czech pilsner, iMo. At one point I was so inspired I started brewing at home, as some of the styles I liked were not readily available yet. Of course, I named my beers after Dead songs Dark Star = imperial stout. Stellar Brew = one of the first IPAs I ever had (this was 30 yrs ago...IPAs were not so ubiquitous), Steal your Face was a particularly high ABV Christmas ale. Grateful Red was my Irish ale. I can't remember the rest, but you get the gist. Anyway...shakedown is/was true, pure capitalism at its finest...see a need, fill a need, the market is/was self-regulating.

Thanks for the new forum thread Marye...Ventura 83 must have been a beautiful thing. The whole Shakedown / vending is a social phenomenon that was and remains a very cool thing. Unique in its simplicity, created by need and nurtured with love, that scene would change yet stay the same, show after show, year after year. You gets your Kind grilled cheese sandwiches as well as a righteous glass pipe, a home-made Jerry coaster and a cold beer to set on it. And the T-shirts! The mobile vendor who strolls by with photos appeals, as does the haphazard Serape' thrown on the ground with necklaces. Throw in a row or three of pop-ups with organized tables piled with t-shirts and it's a town. It's nice to see Shakedown is alive and well, folks are still creating, selling and getting by. We all reap the rewards.

But boy, did they have great vending. There were these earrings I had to have, even though my ears weren't pierced at the time. Still got 'em. I remember the vending scene at Ventura '83 pretty fondly.