Every April at the Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival, last minute scrambles occur for the coveted Pro Photo Showdown tickets. After over a decade of sold out events, you’d think festival goers would figure it out and buy their tickets ahead of time but, alas, they never do. So this year, the good folks at the Festival gave myself and four other social media nerds two VIP tickets each to trade for whatever we could get. The successful barterers can then try and trade the tickets up again (a la One Red Paper Clip) or take the tickets and enjoy the best seats in the house at the Showdown April 22nd. It’s been a pretty fun little promotion and I managed to bag myself a sweet Voleurz hoodie in exchange for my two tickets. The Voleurz crew now has two tickets to trade if you want some. Go bug them on the Voleurz Twitter page.
TRADE SOMETHING FOR PRO PHOTO TICKETS RIGHT NOW
Or leave a comment below if you fear Twitter…I’ll pass it along to the ticket traders…
As for the other ticket traders, photographer Dano Pendygrasse traded his tickets in exchange for a $150 donation to the Paul Brunes Young Heart Foundation by Colin Gilliam.
Whistler blogger Amber Turnau traded hers to Gay Whistler‘s CEO Dean Nelson for a mysterious package of “Island Magic”, the contents of which no one but Mr. Nelson seems to know consists of…I have my guesses.
Skiing legend and all-around nice guy Mike Douglas traded his for a tenderloin and prawn dinner with wine pairings cooked by Biglines.com‘s Tim Grey. I wish I got this one…
@Miss 604 herself, Rebecca Bollwitt, stopped taking offers yesterday but hasn’t announced what sort of awesomeness she got for them. We await with patience…
As you can see the tickets are going fast so if you’re still scrambling for tickets to the best event of the Festival, get on Twitter right now, search #BlackMarketPhoto and hassle the people with the tickets. Maybe even threaten or blackmail them? After all, there are no rules in the black market…
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