| Chapter XXIX |

She's says: We've got to hold on to what we've got

♫ ♪ It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not

We got each other and that's a lot

For love -- we'll give it a shot...

Ohh..we're halfway there! ♪ ♫

As ready as I am to carry out the whole song, I'm gonna have to end it right here, 'else I'll never stop. True story!

So I have all sorts of Bon Jovi songs ringing my ears as I'm laying here last-minute ticket searching/shopping. Well, the concert is in 2 days (Woo hoo!) and I *have* been searching for tickets for quite a few weeks now but it was on purpose that I waited until now to get put serious thought into getting them.

My theory (well it turned into a theory from a hypothesis when I scored awesome floor seats for a George Straight/Taylor Swift/Ronnie Milsap concert for $35 crazy bucks (Full Story) a few years ago) is that when you wait until the last minute you open yourself up to the possibility (even if it's just the slightest one) of scoring great seats (i.e. pit, floor, heck- even lower level seats) for a very good price. The way I see it, tickets aren't like products. If you place an ad for, say, a PS3 for $200 and someone offers you $100 or even $130, you just want to write back to them and tell them to kiss your behind. Reason being, you can hold on to that PS3 however long you want to and eventually you can find someone who will offer you the asking price or even just $5 to $10 below . Okay, rephrase that, not 'however long' necessarily but in a sense there isn't an "expiration date" on the item. Tickets, on the other hand, do have this "expiration date" and as anyone can guess at this point I am talking about when the concert ends (at the very latest). So after that point (which is realistically a lot earlier than the end of the concert but for sure by that point) the ticket becomes obsolete.

Granted, I have never been on the other end of the spectrum where I am the one holding the ticket(s), panicking, and trying to sell them last minute. But I can only imagine that as the event draws nearer and nearer my expectations (of course, the price at which I had set the ticket for originally) gets lower and lower. By a day or two before the concert I would be happy if anyone would offer anything remotely close to my asking price and would more than likely sell it to him/her/them. I guess I'd reckon I might as well make some money out of it than for it to be a total waste.

Well of course they can try selling it to scalpers or those standing around desperately by the venue putting up signs like "Need 1 Ticket" etc. But there's no guarantee the ticket will sell.

That's what I thought anyway but apparently this Nashville crowd's a tough one to get through to.

And the next time I hear someone say "I still have plenty of time", "I'm losing a lot of money as it is", or "I'm trying to get what I paid for" (today specifically), I'm going to lose my mind.

Seriously...

1). No you don't have plenty of time. It's freakin' Monday and the concert is Wednesday.

2). Sucks that you're losing "a lot of money" but would you rather let the tickets become 2 pieces of paper only worth throwing into the trash or would you rather make some cash out of it?

3). Well, sorry to disappoint you but that little statement may have been (more) possible earlier in the selling process but you can't expect to (only) get offered what you paid for at this time anymore.

Needless to say, this entire last minute gamble for tickets is mentally exhausting and aggravating but I'm trying to continue to stay positive only because of the possibility of a great reward- aka great seats for a steal. Another thing too, actually, is that I am 100% set on going so no matter what, we are getting our butts to that concert. Because of that fact, I have an Option B that I can fall back on. You see, Ticketmaster has promotion tickets which are the 3rd tier- 300 level tickets- aka the last resort tickets as I call them- for $56 for 2 tickets which ain't bad at all. And these particular ones available on promotion are not entirely the last resort ones because they at least face the stage. I guess the ones behind the stage (facing their backs) are the true last resort seats. Then there's always Option C, since I am *that* determined to go, I will buy any ticket available-facing them or not if it comes down to it, which I doubt it will.

See I've only waited all my childhood/high school years dreaming of seeing them. Then when I came to college (here in the US) and it became a very 'real' possibility that I could see them in concert, I started actively seeking to finally go to one. Unfortunately something always came up but this time, nothing is going to stand in my way! I have pumped myself up way too much for the past month or so and by golly, I'm going to finally check it off my To-Do-Before-I-Die List :-)

I think I have directed all my negative energy into ranting about the ticket search process on here that I'm ready to get back in there and continue with the search.

Somewhat of good news though, I have quite a positive prospect in the works and it's for two 100 level seats which is not shabby at all. The seller has already accepted my offer in fact. I'm just trying to wait it out as much as I can and see if I can just push my luck a tad bit more and score floor seats. ;-) We'll see how that turns out. Don't get me wrong, if I get those 100 level ones I will be very content.

Side note of happiness: My cheeky (aka Heather) officially got on blogger today! :-) Yayyyy! So we can be blog buddies and I am very excited for that. She is just as random as I am and I know she's probably got a thing or two every now and then to rant about, just like I do. Lol. So her joining up blogger makes me like this ---> :-)