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Greetings and salutations, gentle readers! Today, I am going to impose on your collected wisdom. One hundred points to anyone who provides me which information that ultimately helps me resolve two situations. One is in Boston and the other here in the UK... so you may only want to read the section that is local, or regional, to you (if either applies).
1) Let's start with the Boston situation: After my beloved![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cheshcat's mother passed away, back in 2004, she co-inherited a condo in the Boston area. North suburbs, to be more precise. City of Gloucester[*], to be quite specific. We would now like to sell said condominium. However, the only two real estate agents in the area that I know of are both bozos[**] that I would not trust with the task. I decent fraction of my f-list lives in the Boston area -- can any of you recommend an agent near to Gloucester that I could engage for this task? If not, contact information for a competent agent closer to the city of Boston would be the next best thing, as I could ping to see if they had any recommendations slightly further North. Of course, one can easily find a plethora (and a half) of real estate agents online... but I would prefer to go with a specific recommendation for such an important task. Thanks!
2) Next, for those of you who are in the United Kingdom, I was wondering if you might recommend unto me a trustworthy place (preferably online) where one can buy and sell concert tickets. As I have mentioned previously, I am in possession of two tickets to see Roger Waters perform The Wall in London. Having already seen this show in New York, last October, I know that it is absolutely incredible! I believe that "fan-freakin-tastic" was the phrase that I selected at the time. One of the three best concerts that I have ever attended. Oddly enough, I have found it impossible to find somebody to take the second seat for the May 15 performance -- everyone that I have approached is either not a fan (e.g., my belovedcheshcat, who had right of first refusal) or not available on that date/time (e.g., josington). I would have imagined that giving away a free seat to such an amazing show would have been exceedingly easy. Shows what I know!
In any case, I am happy to go by myself, just as I did in May 2008 when Waters was performing Dark Side of the Moon in the same venue. Additionally, the date that I have tickets for is not ideal, as there is a T2K collaboration meeting that begins in Japan mere hours after the concert ends, Very difficult to get from London to Tsukuba that quickly! Thus, I have a cunning plan! If I sell both of my existing tickets, I can use the money to purchase a single seat to one of the earlier shows, on either May 11th or 12th. In all likelihood, going from two tickets to one means I can probably get a better seat for myself. And, of course, I can then leave for Japan on Saturday May 14th, arriving in time for the first day of the meeting at KEK.
Tis a good plan... but I have zero experience in the second-hand ticket trade within the UK. Tis far too easy an area for scammers, which I obviously wish to avoid. In the States, The Kiddo has achieved good results with StubHub; does anybody know a British equivalent that they could recommend? Thanks!
[*] Because every place in the NorthEastern United States is named after a place (or a person) in England... unless it is named after the native tribes that were killed to obtain the land for said place.
[**] Yes, that is the technical term.
1) Let's start with the Boston situation: After my beloved
cheshcat's mother passed away, back in 2004, she co-inherited a condo in the Boston area. North suburbs, to be more precise. City of Gloucester[*], to be quite specific. We would now like to sell said condominium. However, the only two real estate agents in the area that I know of are both bozos[**] that I would not trust with the task. I decent fraction of my f-list lives in the Boston area -- can any of you recommend an agent near to Gloucester that I could engage for this task? If not, contact information for a competent agent closer to the city of Boston would be the next best thing, as I could ping to see if they had any recommendations slightly further North. Of course, one can easily find a plethora (and a half) of real estate agents online... but I would prefer to go with a specific recommendation for such an important task. Thanks!2) Next, for those of you who are in the United Kingdom, I was wondering if you might recommend unto me a trustworthy place (preferably online) where one can buy and sell concert tickets. As I have mentioned previously, I am in possession of two tickets to see Roger Waters perform The Wall in London. Having already seen this show in New York, last October, I know that it is absolutely incredible! I believe that "fan-freakin-tastic" was the phrase that I selected at the time. One of the three best concerts that I have ever attended. Oddly enough, I have found it impossible to find somebody to take the second seat for the May 15 performance -- everyone that I have approached is either not a fan (e.g., my beloved
cheshcat, who had right of first refusal) or not available on that date/time (e.g., josington). I would have imagined that giving away a free seat to such an amazing show would have been exceedingly easy. Shows what I know! In any case, I am happy to go by myself, just as I did in May 2008 when Waters was performing Dark Side of the Moon in the same venue. Additionally, the date that I have tickets for is not ideal, as there is a T2K collaboration meeting that begins in Japan mere hours after the concert ends, Very difficult to get from London to Tsukuba that quickly! Thus, I have a cunning plan! If I sell both of my existing tickets, I can use the money to purchase a single seat to one of the earlier shows, on either May 11th or 12th. In all likelihood, going from two tickets to one means I can probably get a better seat for myself. And, of course, I can then leave for Japan on Saturday May 14th, arriving in time for the first day of the meeting at KEK.
Tis a good plan... but I have zero experience in the second-hand ticket trade within the UK. Tis far too easy an area for scammers, which I obviously wish to avoid. In the States, The Kiddo has achieved good results with StubHub; does anybody know a British equivalent that they could recommend? Thanks!
[*] Because every place in the NorthEastern United States is named after a place (or a person) in England... unless it is named after the native tribes that were killed to obtain the land for said place.
[**] Yes, that is the technical term.
