VIEWPOINT / LETTERS : Raider Ticket Buyers Can’t Get It Together

I was puzzled as to why the Raiders’ playoff game had trouble selling out. Consider this:

I telephoned TicketMaster on Tuesday morning (Jan. 4) hoping to purchase at least three tickets (possibly four). Unfortunately, the customer service representative informed me that TicketMaster did not have three tickets available that were together. I was told I could purchase three single tickets, but that they would be located throughout the stadium. I then tried to purchase two tickets together and one close by. I was told TicketMaster didn’t have that combination available, either. As a result, I ended up purchasing only two tickets.

How can there not be three tickets together somewhere in that bunch of 14,000 unsold tickets? They can’t all be single seats. Do the ticket brokers have them or what? I sure would be curious to find out.

COLIN KINGSTON

Walnut