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Well, you can always take the third option, and just have the credit card reverse the charges because they are no longer worth what you paid for them... It might be harder to justify, but maybe not.

As someone who has been an A/R guy, there's no way this will fly. They are worth what they purported to be worth at the time of sale - entrance to a Dixie Chicks concert. Unless the concert is cancelled, the contract remains valid. Think of the precedent that this would set if credit card companies allowed people to reverse charges for reasons such as these.

If you purchased tickets before this happened and now don't want to attend, I don't think you should be penalized by the ticket vendor's no-return policy.

That's the chance you take when you buy an advance ticket. I have no love for ticket-vendors - I believe they are an incredible rip-off - but defrauding them isn't the answer. When you buy a ticket, you are buying into a contract - check out the small print on the back of the ticket for details. Finding out the political views of a performer don't coincide with one's own certainly isn't reason enough to void the contract.

I am loath to suggest anything questionable, but I have no problems with this.

I originally posted because you were suggesting something very questionable - namely in your post 159: If you have already received the tickets by mail, you can do the same thing [i.e. claim that you didn't receive the tickets] as long as you didn't have to sign for the tickets.

I stand by my earlier assertion that this is fraud.