Hello again to all.
Well, I am learning. The E-bay experience was quite an education. With 30 seconds left on that auction, I was the sole bidder. I had a limit of some $100 over the minimum and was feeling pretty good, although I continued to hit refresh every 5 seconds. With less than a half minute left, I was out bid. I frantically upped my bid by a bit less than another $100 and found that was not good enough. I was inputting yet another bid when time ran out!
OK, I thought. This was likely a rabid fan like myself who has deep pockets and probably could not be denied. Alas. Not so, a couple of days later these tickets began showing up on many web sites priced from $350 to just less than $500 each. To the best of my knowledge, no one has yet ponied up for this kind of gouging.
I found some other tickets 13 rows out for $150 each and executed an order for them which was confirmed by e-mail. About a half hour later, I received a call informing that the vendor did not have these tickets to sell and that the transaction would be cancelled immediately.
I have a banker friend in Ft. Worth who checked around for me, and found some available tickets for face value, but quite far from the stage. They are in reserve now, and I probably will take these unless something better pops up in the next day or so.
My advice to others who want to attend a concert is to stay on top of it and get tickets the day they are available!
As discussed earlier, we have some family commitments that may ultimately interfere with getting to Ft. Worth anyway. But, if there is any way, we will be there.
Hope to meet some of you there.
Tom
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