Joan B.

5 members of my family attended Dolly's performance in Deadwood and we had a wonderful time listening to a lifelong favorite singer of ours. The tickets were very expensive - and yet we were seated in the very last row :( In addition, we had to constantly try to look around people coming and going to the restroom and some would stand in the aisle blocking our view completely! This occurred throughout the entire concert. Maybe the ushers felt bad for us having such a crummy view because one told my brother-in-law that if we wanted, we could go up the side where we would not block anyone's view and take a picture of Dolly (the above-described events prevented us from getting any pictures from our seats.) When my brother-in-law walked up the side to do so, he was immediately sent back by Security before he could even snap a picture. Seeing Dolly in concert has always been at the top of my bucket list, so after a family tragedy 3 1/2 years ago, I decided that life is too short so we splurged and decided to spend the $179 and go see a legend in concert at Deadwood. I went online to purchase the tickets but was unable to secure the $179 price even though there was no 'sold out' notification. I was taken to another website where the cheapest tickets were priced at $223. By the time my purchase was complete, 5 tickets cost us $1401. 25 of which $278.75 were service fees. I wouldn't have minded so much if we hadn't heard from other ticket goers that they were purchasing tickets for $100 the night of the concert at the box office and as I said - we were in the back row so these people paid almost 1/3 of what we did and they sat in front of us!

When I printed out my tickets I notice someone named Cheryl Welch was the owner of our tickets so I called TicketNetwork and was told the reason our tickets were more and another name was listed was because Dolly had sold out in 20 minutes. Obviously Cheryl Welch and other greedy buyers bought up the tickets at the original price and gouged us for lousy seats. I will never buy through TicketNetwork again. A valuable lesson learned the expensive way.