 So, just a preamble, this is a story about what happens to a ticket reseller who isn't able to sell tickets. This is part of the problem. What's up guys? Welcome back. My name is Tress. Here on Thumbs Up Run. And you know how we talk about buying tickets, selling tickets, making sure that you have all the fun with your tickets? Well, we have been a problem. It tastes a bit different. I have a bit of a story to tell you guys. So you know how I buy and sell tickets? Well, now we're at the point where this whole past year it's been relatively slow ever since you know, March. I still had that urge to go and buy things, sell things. So I may have gone a bit overboard in my attempt to buy and sell things. Let me explain, but first let me show you my problem. It's not just I have one problem. It's more like 41 problems with another 30 on the way. I can explain. So events basically stopped mid-March. Then the cancellation started coming March, April, May, June, July. So it was just a matter of trying to survive. Events getting canceled. Events getting refunded. Sales getting canceled. Sales getting refunded. Events getting postponed. Ticketmaster saying, oh, you want your money back, you got to follow this hoop, jump through this hoop. Ticketmaster five times a week. That's ticketmaster. Ticketmaster. Basically all that to be said eventually got all my money back. Well, most of the money that I was owed has now been refunded back to me. Sales that I had to cancel. I've had to refund them. Money's gone back and money's exchanged many people's hands. And now we're at the point where things are, you know, settling down. You know, baseball is happening. Hockey's finishing up. Basketball's starting to finish up and I'm feeling like I got to do something. In April, May, you'd start renewals for hockey. You'd be starting renewals for basketball. You'd be starting getting ready for MLS. Contents are happening all throughout the summer and into the fall. So many things are happening, right? So it was just constantly, you know, buying, selling, buying, selling, spending money, saving money. All that to be said this year is basically just stagnant. Then, then I did what all people do and I went on to the YouTubes. And on the YouTubes I started seeing all these ads. I don't know what happened, but basically, you know, the Amazon FBA ads and make money selling stuff online ads and all the other, you know, gurus with the Lamborghinis and all that nonsense. I was like, oh, I can do that. So first I started with textbooks, then I had some other, you know, smaller products. I had some other random products I was selling. And then, you know, it was, it was something. It was happening, you know, basically over the last three months, it's just kind of selling a few of these things a couple of times a day. Nothing too exciting. It's just kind of like tailed off and slowed down and I'm like, well, that's something. But then I saw, kept seeing ads for sneaker resellers and I was like, oh, I resell things. What's the difference between this and, you know, just tickets, right? So simple. So it turns out it's the same, but different because at least with tickets for the most part they're a digital product. So you know, you get the digital PDF for the mobile ticket and then once it's sold to transfer it off, the way it goes, ma la di la di la, dollars end up in your bank account. Everybody wins. In this situation, it's a lot more, as we say, manual labor. And then, and then I said, oh, I can do this. And then I bought a pair of shoes. What did I buy first? I bought, oh, 350 V2 Naturals, paid $300 for them plus tax. And then I eventually sold them for about $400, minus fees. So I made, you know, not that much money. I'm like, oh, this wasn't too bad. I only had to wait, you know, an hour in line. And then I had to spend another, you know, 30 minutes or so trying to list them and all this stuff. I'm like, oh, this is not too bad. But then I was also on YouTube where they talk about, you know, going to Nike outlets and buying stuff there and then reselling them. Like, oh, Price Harbor Trash, this is very similar to the Amazon thing. I can do this. So then that happened. And then, and then, you know, I had one shoe and then I had two shoes and then I had more shoes. Now I have all, all the shoes. And then I have more shoes coming still. Yeah. Yeah. And then, and then this happened, I swear this only happened now because I was so distraught with the amount of shoes that I had that I just couldn't deal with this. Although I must say I do have one, one reason for doing all this. And that's because there was one pair of shoes that I did want for myself. And I did not have the justification to go ahead and buy them. So I said to myself, if I can make enough money reselling shoes, then I can justify being able to buy the pair of shoes that I want. So the ones I want, let me show you, they are very nice. They are very amazing. And they are very, very, very expensive. The shoes I want, they're these ones, these guys, they are Jordan one retro golf cleats. They are currently someone's asking 2400 bucks, the highest bid 1469 Canadian. I want them, but I don't think I'm going to get them just yet till I sell, you know, all, all of this plus whatever else is coming. These shoes, they're basically the justification for this whole ordeal behind me. So I'll keep you guys updated on how that's going. But really the thing is, I kind of realize that all this is, is not for me. The soon as college football playoffs kind of rolled around. I had bought some tickets and then I sold some tickets and it took about five minutes, maybe 10 max for about buying tickets, listing tickets, selling the tickets, transferring the tickets. Yeah, that's my story. You know, I've been told that I shouldn't stop, but it didn't really click till I sold those tickets because that's kind of what I do. So I'm going to stop, promise. If you guys are interested in actually seeing more segments of this sneaker stuff that's going on and, you know, my quest to actually go ahead and buy these shoes, definitely let me know in the comments below. Also be sure to subscribe if you haven't already, especially if you're interested in seeing the end of this saga, what's going to happen. Will I be able to buy these shoes or not? Also going back to regular programming as events start coming back up, although I do have quite a few videos in the works on the way coming right for you. So be sure to subscribe if you have not yet. And see you guys next time.