Bad form to reply to my own reply
, but here I am anyway!
In addition to FM, I am also a huge Springsteen fan. There is an awesome quarterly called Backstreets, which I just received in the mail yesterday. One of the letters to the editor was blasting TM for doing the same thing as we have been discussing - a "top-down" sale of tickets, where an inquirer will receive 200 or 300 level seats as "best available" as soon as the tickets go on sale, then a week or 2 later thousands of good seats will be released. For Springsteen, this is an especially nasty issue in his home state of NJ, where historically tickets have been next to impossible to get. Now the area is flooded with people trying to get rid of the "bad" seats because they were able to easily get better ones closer to the concert date. (just as an aside, when a performer is playing Giants Stadium, only the first 2 sections are good anyway!
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I think it's time for me to stay on my soapbox and start writing letters to TM, band management, and consumer affairs places. This way of doing business r e a l l y gets to me!
Eileen