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From: vch@rruxo.UUCP (Kerro Panille)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Ticketron, Dire Straits and major dissapointments
Message-ID: <326@rruxo.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 09:50:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: rruxo.326
Posted: Fri Sep 13 09:50:55 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Sep-85 07:24:45 EDT
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>Well, maybe this had come up before but I'm pissed. Dire Straits is to 
>play here at Portland and since they never have before and probably 
>won't be back for several years I wanted to go. So off to ticketron.
>Oh, I'm sorry sir but we don't have tickets for that show, we never did.
>Call the box off and they can help you out. So I callthe box office, 
>long distance of course, and loa nd behold these tickets are available 
>at *ALL* ticketron outlets. So back to Sears to visit the ticketron 
>machine again. Again "all it says is go to the box office we can't get 
>you tickets". So again I call the box office this time to complain and 
>to try to VISA my way into some tickets (the box office is 1 hour away)
>NO. I'm sorry sir but that concert has sold out (in the last hour). The 
>first time I called there were 100 seats left.
> So moriarity take this one to court. Nobody else is going to deal with 
>it.
>
>Dave Bottom
>DEC Augusta Maine
>!dec-rhea!dec-katadn!bottom

Why don't you just go to the concert and scalp tickets?? There will be plenty
seats available that way. They may cost you a bit more, but I don't think it
will be as bad as the Bruce Springsteen concerts.

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