The good old days of 10c..........

A couple of memo's to the fans off the old website regarding ticket sales for the 2000 tour.... remember this??

April 30, 2000
Ten Club Tickets: We have just finished sending out the confirmation letters and e-mails to the European fans. For those of you in Europe, you should be receiving your confirmations in about a week. As for North American fans, we have just sorted your mail by show. That means we haven’t cashed any checks or charged any credit cards, so don’t worry if your check hasn’t cleared. We also haven’t been able to pick up all of the overnight and registered mail until today, so there is no reason to worry if you haven’t received delivery confirmation yet.

The next thing we are going to do is count the ticket requests. The reason we do this is so we can tell the promoter how many tickets the fan club gets and they can then put the rest of the tickets on sale to the general public starting this weekend. So we still have your requests to count. There are at least 15,000 letters in this office right now, so you can imagine that it will take us a while just to count them. Then we have to process them. That means a lot of data entry and credit card processing and tons of administrative stuff. They will be processed in the order of the show that you are requesting, so Virginia Beach is first and Seattle is last. We don’t have any idea how long this will take, but it’s not going to happen as fast as you would like it to. Rest assured that if you tried to get us your ticket offer in on time, we will take care of you even if it was a little late, or your credit card expired or you bounced the check or pretty much anything (except if your dog ate it). Again, we will take care of you. We are here for you guys and you can count on us, even though it might not always seem that way.

Which leads me to the next item. It is not the fault of the Ten Club or the Rumour Pit, or anyone for that matter, that the venues were not announced until the day of the deadline. Negotiations and preparations were going on up until the last minute to secure the venues and make sure we get a fair deal so we can keep ticket prices down and those merchandise prices down. It is also no one's fault that Austin and Portland didn’t happen. It just couldn’t be worked out. We have to keep in mind that the Ten Club priority ticketing is a privilege, not a right. If things were done the way most bands do them, the tour would be announced this weekend and tickets would go on sale next weekend and no one would even know about Portland and Austin. So, we're really sorry about not having shows in those two cities and we're also really sorry if the venue surprises (i.e., Jones Beach) are too much for you to handle. There are other people around the world who are much less fortunate than us and don't forget the people who'll be sitting in the nosebleed section wishing they were in your seats.

Unfortunately, we are unable to change venues for people unless there is a legitimate request. One more transfer to get to Long Island from New Jersey isn't one of them. However, if you made a request for Austin or Portland, you need to e-mail or snail mail your change. For those of you we don't hear from, we will be contacting you. You can go to any of the other shows on the list and if you want to come to Seattle, we won’t make you pay the extra dough.

So, most importantly, I want to stress to you to please remain as patient as possible. If we can keep the e-mail down to a minimum, that would help. Save up your questions about whether or not we got your request until we get to a point where we can actually tell you. It’s going to be a great year and you’re all going to have awesome seats.

Peace,
Tim




August 3, 2000
To all fan club members,

Despite what you may hear, we do prioritize the tickets. I start with the first seat in the orchestra pit and go through them as they are numbered. They are broken into 4-6 sections depending on how many fan club tickets there are. Today (Virginia Beach) the tickets were separated into four blocks:

Orchestra pit prime seating reserved for membership numbers: 48196-133855
1st block after Orchestra: membership number: 134312-172265
2nd block 172457-190346
3rd block 190365-199657

Please note the membership numbers will vary each show as each member can only purchase two tickets.

Each block of tickets is given out in order, i.e., ORCH seat 1, Orch seat 2 etc....So if your the first person in your block to pick up your tickets, you get the first seat reserved in that section.

Now I will not be labeling envelopes, sorry. There are too many and I have a few other jobs as well as just taking care of your tickets. Besides, it's a waste of paper that won't be recycled! It is only first come, first served per blocks, and really all the blocks are killer seats. Our band guests sit BEHIND you so they are killer seats.

You do need to bring your membership number or confirmation letter and a photo ID in order to pick up your tickets. If you don't have either you will have a problem getting into the show.

This is how the tickets will be done for the duration of the tour.

Sincerely,
PJ Ticket gal