I’ve made comments before in the past that I bought Taylor Swift tickets, but now I have to retract that as I’m no longer going.
I originally bought them because my oldest sister and her friend had tickets (her friend bought them during the pre-sale earlier this year) and at the time, the tickets were selling for 300-600 a piece, which I couldn’t afford. They were talking about Era outfits and driving up in a limo and all this fun stuff, and it’s been on my bucket list for years to go see her in concert. So finally, back in early March, my sister was able to get approved through Affirm for a payment plan for the tickets, and so, I bought them. Including service fees and taxes, I bought two tickets (for my little sister and I) for a little over 1,700.
The problem now has been money related stress because we also have a planned trip to California in August, and while we’re mostly there for the beach itself, we also wanted to do things like whale watching and going to Disney. However, the finances would be on me because my sister can’t afford it, and my teen sister has a lot of trips with her youth groups and stuff that she can’t get a job to help pay for it due to not having the time. My older sister’s boyfriend was gonna come and help pay for the trip too, but he’s been acting weird about money that we think he doesn’t have what he says he have (as if he just wants to impress us, which is a load of bull). So again, it falls on me. I’ve been saving since January, and even though I have enough to guarantee us to get up there and to get a hotel room for the cheapest price, funds are still tight.
A few months ago, though, my sister’s friend ended up saying she sold her tickets which meant my sister (who hadn’t paid for hers yet) couldn’t go. And this was news to us because why would you sell them if you got them for such a low price?!
I still had hopes of going, so until today, I planned on going however I could. But this also meant that only two of us could go, and there was a fight between her and our teen sister over who gets the seat.
Then last night, as we got ourselves ready to pack (since we’re leaving today after I get off work), she said that she could put them up for sale for a total of 3,000, which means I could make a 2K profit (considering I’ve already paid off half the tickets, 1,000 more to go). She made the point that with the extra money, we could do so much more in Cali than what we were originally planning on doing, and that we don’t have to stress over money for it. So, I have the okay to sell them.
They were sold sometime around midnight, which was basically a few hours after she put them up for sale.
We’re still leaving today because our parents live an hour away from the city the concert’s based out of, but a part of me is sad because I really wanted to go. The other part knows it’s for the best.
I also hate the “walk of shame” I’m gonna be doing at work because I had to ask someone to take my Saturday shift so I could go tomorrow night. And a few people already know why I’m gonna be out of town. But now, I have to say that I never went which is horrible…
As much as I want to cry about it, I keep trying to think positive, because my sister did make a point: I spent so much money for a three hour experience. But now, I can use the profit for a week’s worth of experience.
Even if the show is 3 hours long, more than 300 bucks is just ridiculous…
