 I actually have this box here it's from Notre Dame and it's basically bulging at the seams and inside I have a lot of stuff so I mean it's just over the years some things I've collected so you know I've got some season ticket booklets here I've got you know some other tickets tons and tons of them you know got those I got some gray cup tickets you know NBA Finals tickets they got some hockey tickets some other subscriptions whole bunch of other you know just like pins and stuff just over the years just things I've collected and you know it's it's it's funny because it's like looking back it's like you know I don't ever remember like all of this stuff being accumulated all at once and it's funny too because this this this this box you know this box full of stuff it's like this is just what I've kept like over the years there's been a tons of tickets that I've you know I picked up because I've bought and sold and then they're just they're just gone right because they're just you know a lot of times they're just digital tickets or they're hard tickets they need to send out or whatever the case may be so this is just kind of some of the stuff that I've kept around but how I actually got started we have to go back in the way back machine all the way to 2013 actually let's go back in before we go back one more year 2012 what is like you know what's the origin story I'm not spire man obviously but it's kind of a similar story you know so in 2012 I would go to hockey games maybe once a year if that if if that you know like I used to go to hockey games very very frequently when I was kid you know between you know ages of me like 10 to like 18 I probably went to like three or four hot games max then in university I went to a couple more and then in 2012 we actually decided my bunch of friends and I we had decided that we were gonna go to see the auto centers in the playoffs every single year basically they made the playoffs we were gonna go bar none because we need to make sure that we got in on the action because it was just you know bonkers all centers they basically had one of playoffs series since 2007 we're now in 2012 we're all getting pumped up we're excited all the playing New York Rangers we're gonna go to the game so we decide okay let's go buy some tickets so we go on to capital tickets we go in and buy some tickets and 50 or 60 bucks and you know all was well you know we got our tickets got to go to game I think it was game six five or six I want to say game six basically we go to the game we're there all the good stuff is happening I think they lost that game though all I know is that we went to the game I'm pretty sure we left disappointed so it wasn't a good sign he was to say the centers did not win that round and unfortunately that was the end of our you know our playoff run of being able to you know attend so fast forward one more year now we're in 2013 my buddy comes up to me and he says hey you know I've been going to some hot games this year I've been buying tickets or seeing some tickets being available on this site called stub hub I'm like stub what what is this stub hub you speak of I don't understand does not compute sub hub as you guys already know it's been around for quite a bit of time but even for me at this point in time 2013 never heard of it no idea what this is have no concept of people buying and selling tickets on the online I knew that people would do things like on the Kajiji's and the Craigslist and stuff they know by and sell their tickets but again always that risk of people just trying to scam us all so that's kind of my experience of knowing about tickets and you know buying tickets on the Kajiji's and the Craigslist and stuff buying them in person was never you know pleasant experience you never knew if you're gonna get real tickets or not you never do someone's gonna try and rob you you never knew if your money were getting was real or not it's just a whole lot of you know issues basically no one was happy so then when he comes around tells me about this website that sells tickets online like oh that's an interesting concept you know and go ahead you list your tickets on there if you buy them from there you're guaranteed to get official authentic tickets and then the money just you don't get sent to you for the person who's selling it's like it's a very easy seamless transaction like oh that's interesting very cool and then I forgot about it immediately afterwards because again I was not going to many hockey games I was just buying the tickets from you know both ticketmaster box office I didn't get them so be it fast-forward to April 2013 AutoSera's qualified for the playoffs yet again and we're all you know we're getting excited so it's bunch of us okay which game we want to go to so you know sends to the lower seats we got games three four and six to pick from so we decided not we're gonna go to a close-up game we're going to game six it's gonna be amazing and to playing the Montreal Caneans top it off so once they win in game six and we're there we're gonna see it all happen in person it's gonna be amazing yes and then the Senators proceed to have one of if not the best series of their lives against the Montreal Canadiens you know game one rolls around they kill them they take the win game two rolls around they lose game three they come in and that's the game where Jean Gabriel Pajot becomes a folklore hero scores that amazing hat trick crowd starts chanting Pajot Pajot Pajot you know it's it's it's a whole thing it's amazing and we're like wow we could have been at that game if we bought tickets to game three then game four rolls around sends come back they went again and we're like oh oh no oh oh dear they're up three one now this is it's not looking good then game five rolls around in Montreal sends go in they take the win and we're like wow we suck we missed the most exciting playoff series that we've ever seen in our lives and we had to watch it from home what a bunch of losers so now we know okay round two it's happening we're gonna be there so we saw okay here's what's gonna happen we're gonna buy tickets to either game three or game four that's it we're gonna go to the series we're not missing out this time because they this is the first year they won since 2007 back when they almost won the cup we need to be there right now so we said okay we're gonna buy some tickets we look at the prices and they're like $90 and we're like huh what do you mean $90 this is it's crazy we were paying you know 50 60 bucks to go for round one 50% increased around to this this this can't be you know we're still poor little students we can't afford this and so we come up with this you know this this this crazy idea like oh well there's six of us who want to go to the game what if we all buy one additional ticket and then you know we sell the additional tickets so we sold there's six of us going we buy 12 we sell six and we use those funds basically to reduce our cost and like oh you know it's a good idea but obviously it's it's it's at this point in time like oh well this is you know kind of risky none of us were really into this you know buying and selling type thing and we have already heard voice our bad things about the GGs at the Craigslist and stuff like that and we're like it's a bit risky so then we say okay fine we just get one tickets each we'll get one additional ticket each so we'll just we'll just run it that way so I end up buying eight tickets my friend buys another four tickets so we have 12 tickets all together and we said okay here's how we're gonna split it up we're gonna have four people sit with one group to sit the other group and then the other two seats and the other four seats we're gonna sell them okay fine let's let's do it so we all jump on to the internets we all go ahead list our tickets across the ethos and we get some bites hit some hits we get some sales things are looking good and I decide you know I want to keep one pair of tickets I'm gonna try and sell them on this this stub hub this stub hub this hub of stubs the thing where you can sell the tickets online another thing I saw we're trying out we just just test it just see what happens right you know what's the worst that could happen so we bought our tickets we've sold four of the six seats and I decide I'm gonna sell the last two seats like I said on the stub hubs so this game this game that we were gonna go to was taking place on May 19th I'm pretty sure about tickets on May 9th 10th 11th as of May 18th the tickets had not yet sold I had two tickets still to sit on stub hub and I was like this is ridiculous this is insane why did I do this I have these two tickets they're not gonna sell them we're gonna lose all this money it's gonna be terrible but then no something happened so May 18th we're there I'm trying to sell these tickets nothing's happening I keep going in checking the price basically every single day a couple times a day saying okay is that by maybe I move the price up and down a little bit maybe you'll get you know someone will see it in the little going to the body ticket will be amazing on this May 18th I'm just out with some friends we know back when you know we were allowed to hang out with people that kind of thing so we were at a McDonald's and we were just you know buying some McFlurry's and I still remember this to this day like to this day I still remember this whole thing we bought the McFlurry's we sat down we're sitting in the back of the boot one of the booths in McDonald's there's you know six or eight of us or whatever and I'm looking at my phone I'm like hey these tickets aren't sold they're not sold okay I'm gonna go check again we check again tickets you know the events happening really soon so we're getting nervous here well I'm getting nervous no one else's I don't share this information with anybody else you know that there the risk that we're taking here but yeah I'm okay fine let me just take another look I'll go into my phone check the price maybe I'll just drop it a little bit cuz you know we're getting close to the game I'm pretty sure if I don't sell this soon I'm gonna lose all this money so so I go in and I say okay let me just the price down a little bit a couple pennies see maybe that'll do the trick and I hit save and I get an error oh my god that's odd very odd never got this before so I try again just the price down a little bit and then error I'm like oh this is very strange very confused maybe one of those refresh the pages I refresh the whole thing check my phone try to go change the price and I look at my phone and the tickets are gone like there's nothing there I'm like oh no what did I do now the tickets are gone I don't see them here anymore what did I do wrong did I adjust the price too many times and I locked myself out did they think I'm a ball like what's what's what's going on and I'm getting all nervous I'm getting a bit you know and it sounds like oh heart's gonna race a little bit and I see this pop-up come up in my in my notifications it's like oh you have a new email oh what's that so I click on it I open it up what does it say you've sold your tickets huh what do you mean someone actually bought the stuff so confused so I check the email I'm looking through it says oh look at this ticket so 134 dollars paid a commission and it's like what what is what is this this is insane someone actually bought these things what in US dollars to what what is happening I don't understand I was just trying justice tickets and then that they're gone and then look what and then and then and then it finally hit me you know like wait a minute we actually just sold these tickets sold online I not do anything they were e-tickets so they're already uploaded so someone bought them they got them they were delivered and then payment is coming to me like in the next like two days like huh what do you mean this is so easy I don't do anything just mind boggling basically it was this was just like I could not believe that someone was willing to actually go onto the internet and pay more than what you could actually buy tickets for like on the street like on the GG and everything else like they were paying a premium basically to buy their tickets online for a guarantee that they were gonna be valid and also for the convenience and all that kind of stuff you know pick and choose where they want to sit blah blah blah blah blah but I still couldn't believe it was like wow this this is something else something else and so once these last two tickets were sold then I went did what I do best I jump into Excel and I made myself a little Excel spreadsheet said okay here's how much everybody paid here's how much you pay for the extra tickets here I actually sold everything for and then we split it up all the divvying of all the profits across the board I took a bit of commission because I said I took too much stress and headache and had to make this Excel for you guys I took a bit of an additional cut for it but you know oh fine everyone was happy we basically were able to go to the event for slightly more than paying what we would have paid for round one but we actually go to round two and this game was not just any game this was no no no no this was you know this is Daniel Alford's final season we had to make sure we didn't miss out on his you know potentially one of his last games of his career in the NHL so we had to make sure we were there so we were there we sat down we sat up in the top row not just any row we were in the top the upper bowl the upperist of the upper like I cannot explain to you how top row we were it looked like we were gonna fall over just keep falling forever and ever and ever we were happy but that game 100% worth it. Daniel Alford said he scored in the final 10 seconds of that game to bring it to overtime then they go in they win that game they take their down the series only two one at that point we were loving it things were going amazing and then they proceed to lose you know game four and game five and then I was in that. Nila's to say I still remember selling these tickets it was quite the experience and this is like the the first taste I had of actually going in and you know selling tickets on online and I was like oh you know there's there's something here and then I proceeded to do absolutely nothing until November and that's when I heard about oh this this man you know have you heard of this Justin Timberlake have you heard of this man I'm like oh I know this guy yeah I can I can potentially know buy these tickets and then sell them shouldn't be too hard I think he's a kind of popular guy you know I've I've seen his music in the past I have a big understanding of this man so I said okay fine I'll buy these tickets so I go online I go buy capital tickets I buy the tickets and then I saw tickets on the Kijiji I didn't even think about selling them on the stuff I was like oh no I can do this locally it's gonna be fine me easy me fantastic one for excellent and that's what I did and then that was the that was that now some of those Justin Timberlake tickets I mean I didn't know what I was doing I didn't know anything about him I don't know anything about the music industry or ticket prices or anything of the sort I just said oh I know this guy he sounds popular maybe I'll just try and buy some tickets and see what happens I mean it was like well like $200 I spent on him if I lost it all whatever maybe I'll just go to the event fine could be worse so I figured now I'll just give it a shot give it a try and and I'm working out you know I'm making you know quite a bit of money on it and I'm like oh this is this there's something here for it and some I just want to mention it's like I was not the person who you would have expected to you know succeed in excel at this type of activity because again I don't know anything about music I don't know anything about ticket prices I don't know anything about sporting prices I don't know anything about anything I just know that I like hockey and I want to go see hockey and there's a way that I can go see hockey more often than I'm seeing it right now for paying less than what I'm paying right now then why wouldn't I just do that so I figured you know I'd give it a shot give it a try and end up you know turning into something a bit bigger than I had originally anticipated and expected when I when I got first got started into the song then like I was saying I there are people when I was on Kijiji you know listing tickets for Justin Timberlake I was noticing other people were you know trying to buy tickets for different events and I was seeing like the prices they were asking for were actually higher than what I could find you know somewhere else on on stubhub and other places so I was like oh you know maybe I could you know make a bit of a market here you know so I'll buy the tickets cheap from stubhub sell them a bit more expensive on the Kijiji pocket the difference everyone is happy and that's what I did that's kind of how it kind of got started and then from there I know started buying some season tickets and I started buying tickets over here and I started getting over there and there's a whole you know a whole another story to go on with with how it actually kind of grew into what it did and I think I'm gonna stop myself now because I'll talk about that in the next video where I talk about how much money I've actually made selling tickets and I think you guys might be a bit surprised about how many tickets I've actually sold because the number is even to myself even to this day it's still a bit mind-boggling I would say so with that I hope you guys stay tuned for that if you enjoyed this video be sure to hit the like button down below also be sure to subscribe hit the notification bell as well because I want to make sure you guys are ready for when this next video drops it's gonna be a good one to me a great one it's gonna be amazing and it's gonna be a lot of fun so with all that hope you guys enjoy this video and see you guys next time