I sold my Holly Cole tickets for tomorrow night through craigslist. First time I used craiglist and I must said it was a rather painless operation. These were great tickets, second row middle. Sigh.....
I bought them back in December when they first went on sale. My birthday (29 June) always falls during the Montreal Jazz Festival so I usually buy whatever headliner is playing that night. Holly Cole is one of my favorite singers. I think I've seen her at least 6 or 7 times in the last 17 years including some of her early ones at the Spectrum in the early 90's. For the Jazz Fest the announced dates were 28 and 29 June, perfect. I happened to be at Air Force that day and, being a quiet day, decided not to go to lunch and instead called for tickets. Admission was busy so I called Theatre Nouveau Monde directly and got through right away. Basically had my choice of seats and without really thinking ordered tickets for the 29th. Afterwards I realized I should have gotten tickets for the 28th since this year is my 50th and I might have other things going on. Oh well, it would somehow work out. Later they added two more shows (30 June and 2 July) but I passed those dates by.
Although I was enthused about the Holly Cole concert my friend who usually comes to my birthday concerts was not. It was like well if nothing else comes up then I'll go. So, of course, something else did come up, the home opener of the Alouettes. So now I had tickets to a Holly Cole concert, a ticket to the season opener of the Alouettes and my birthday. I sort of held out til the last minute finally opting to go to the Alouettes game because if I had chosen the Holly Cole concert I probably would have gone by myself with the birthday party being held on Saturday.
So I used craigslist to sell the tickets and it ended up being a rather painless operation. Roberta, who is actually more of a fan of the opening act, Michael Kaeshammer bought the tickets from me. I always have a problem selling anything I have so I was a bit sad to depart with the tickets so the Als had better win tomorrow night!
Posted by chezbasson at June 28, 2007 07:39 PM