Cal
17th February 2010, 04:41 PM
Hey'all,
Just wanted to start by mea culpa-ing about selling the tickets on ebay (yeah it was me...was trying to make a nice long post ending in an Obi-Wan style..."of course I know him, he's me" deal but that seemed a touch twee).
It really was a tough call, as soon as I heard about this event I couldn't wait to go, and even now I'm more than a little bummed about parting with the tix. As was described by Lee in the thread (oh and she was a wonderful person to talk to by the way) I had to make the judgement call on the tix or the upcoming trip. The American adventure is one that I've been putting every spare cent into for the better part of two and a half years (and been dreaming of for way longer). The tornado tour part alone was...well...no change from $3000US and so on. The problem is that as the actual dates get closer the little expenses (both trip and non-trip related) are adding up and although I had the Atheism event tickets I'd still not arranged any travel or accomodation.
Point is that I made the call and, after deciding that I really couldn't justify the expense of the trip to Melbourne itself, I embraced capitalism by auctioning the tickets. Money grubbing I know, and doubly so because I do genuinely hate people that willingly snaffle up two dozen big event tickets just so they can then scalp 'em on Ebay for way more than they're worth. I can only spread wide my hands and say that I honestly bought the tickets with every intention of going, and that although I did make some cash on the sale it wasn't some crazy, bought for $400 sold for $1800 kinda deal.
Anyway, with all that off my chest (and honestly only having discovered when I spoke to Lee the other day that his Forum even existed...I really need to pay closer attention to websites), I just thought I'd say 'hi' and 'sorry' and 'have fun' to everybody that's going to Melbourne. It should be a truly awesome event.
So let the flaming begin.
Just wanted to start by mea culpa-ing about selling the tickets on ebay (yeah it was me...was trying to make a nice long post ending in an Obi-Wan style..."of course I know him, he's me" deal but that seemed a touch twee).
It really was a tough call, as soon as I heard about this event I couldn't wait to go, and even now I'm more than a little bummed about parting with the tix. As was described by Lee in the thread (oh and she was a wonderful person to talk to by the way) I had to make the judgement call on the tix or the upcoming trip. The American adventure is one that I've been putting every spare cent into for the better part of two and a half years (and been dreaming of for way longer). The tornado tour part alone was...well...no change from $3000US and so on. The problem is that as the actual dates get closer the little expenses (both trip and non-trip related) are adding up and although I had the Atheism event tickets I'd still not arranged any travel or accomodation.
Point is that I made the call and, after deciding that I really couldn't justify the expense of the trip to Melbourne itself, I embraced capitalism by auctioning the tickets. Money grubbing I know, and doubly so because I do genuinely hate people that willingly snaffle up two dozen big event tickets just so they can then scalp 'em on Ebay for way more than they're worth. I can only spread wide my hands and say that I honestly bought the tickets with every intention of going, and that although I did make some cash on the sale it wasn't some crazy, bought for $400 sold for $1800 kinda deal.
Anyway, with all that off my chest (and honestly only having discovered when I spoke to Lee the other day that his Forum even existed...I really need to pay closer attention to websites), I just thought I'd say 'hi' and 'sorry' and 'have fun' to everybody that's going to Melbourne. It should be a truly awesome event.
So let the flaming begin.