Toot! Toot!
On a day like today, when the wind is right, I can hear Portland's own steam locomotives (SP&S 700 and SP 4449) from my office in downtown Portland, and it reminds me that the latest edition of the Polar Express excursions are going on this weekend and next weekend.
I need to go down to Oaks Park and see if we can pick up tickets directly from the ORHF people instead of going through the nasty ticketmaster clone organization that's doing the online ticket sales for them this year.
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Ticketwest is the people I was calling a “nasty ticketmaster clone”, because of the “convenience fees” that are mentioned on the Polar Express page. I don’t know how ORHF does it, but the few times I’ve been involved with organizing events ticket resellers are offered blocks of tickets at a discount, so when they turn around and tack “convenience fees” on top of the list price it leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
I’d rather just go down to the Oaks Park halt and buy the tickets directly from the ORHF (provided the ORHF is selling them; I’ve heard that one of the ways that some of the nasty ticketmaster clones preserve their profit margins is by signing contracts that forbid the original organization from selling them directly.)
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I’m pretty sure you have to buy them from TicketsWest, although I’ll ask when I’m up there tomorrow (I’m volunteering as a trail guard, to protect boarding and disembarking passengers from bicyclists). ;)