The Mothership Has Landed – In My Inbox

I write this entry 24 hours after I received an email in my inbox stating that I had been one of the lucky few to purchase tickets to the Ahmet Tribute Concert which is home to Led Zeppelin in a reunion concert.

While I had no real plans to attend (heck, it’s in LONDON ENGLAND!!!), I knew that Mike was excited to go so I said “What the heck.” and put my name in.

To be one of the chosen few in an all out rock ballot is a shock to the system and I am honoured to have been a part of this event.

The scoop is, they sent me a password that would allow you to go into the Ticketmaster website and use it to purchase tickets in the O2 Arena. So I started wondering if I could sell the password.

So I logged onto Ebay and noticed that someone just sold one for $10,000. I have no way of confirming this but it did say it sold for that price. After some deliberation, we put the tickets on ebay and after a slew of problems (like not being able to see the listing), I awoke this morning and saw a cool $300 in the running to get the password.

Meanwhile, the morning drags on and I start scanning the message boards for any notice on whether or not people will get screwed by purchasing this password. You see, they had a notice saying that they would be checking the IDs of the purchaser. So here I am thinking that this means that they aren’t checking the passcodes!

Early in the morning, I had a slew of people inquiring about the tickets and one great fellow actually got in touch with the office and let me know that the passcodes, in fact, would be checked also at the ticket gates.

Not wanting to screw over anyone, and allow the tickets to go back into a pool of randomly drawn participants, I went to cancel the ebay listing but could not as there was less than 12 hours left in the bidding.

During the day, I was talking to a rep from Ebay about this and my situation and he said they do that so sellers can’t go in two minutes before an auction and change it to…oh…a rubber band for example. It makes sense but at the same time, it made my predicament harder as the bidding had peaked at $2,000.

I had a backup plan in mind, but the rep at Ebay said I can go ahead and cancel bids on my own item (which I thought was odd…) but lo and behold, that’s what I’ve been doing for the past hour now. I keep cancelling and telling people that the password won’t work, but because I am unable to edit my own listing if there is 12 hours left, I can’t get the word out before people bid on it! Argh. The countdown is on – 20 minutes left in the bidding. I must admit I am pretty pumped to remind myself that it got up to $2,000. In the end, I would have offered the buyer a refund if it came to that as I couldn’t (in good conscience) sell him a passcode that may screw them over as soon as they trekked out to London England to pick up their tickets.

In the end, I’ll have to spend some money for putting the listing up on Ebay, but I must admit it’s been a fun ride and I can have a story to tell about how we got the chance to go see Led Zeppelin (in perhaps, their final performance).

On a sidenote, if someone would like to start a collection to send me to London England on November 26 (flight is around $1000), by all means, do so. I still have 48 hours to use the password and order the tickets. Would I be appreciative of your grand gesture?

YES! THIS IS LED ZEPPELIN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HERE! THE GREATEST ROCK N ROLL BAND THAT HAS EVER LIVED!!!

In fact, if someone wants to pay my way, they can have the other ticket and we can go together. Fair enough?