Most of the time, if you buy the wrong gig tickets, that's that - you have to mourn your loss of cash and move on. You'll either have to buy the right ones or begrudgingly accept that it wasn't meant to be this time around.
When 17-year-old Finley Galdins accidentally bought the wrong Coldplay tickets, buying tickets to a cinema screening of the gig, instead of the gig itself, he was left gutted and fearful that he wouldn't get to see the band that he loves.
So when he woke up to a direct message on Twitter from Coldplay, he couldn't believe his luck. He was so shocked, and his nan even warned him it was a scam as she thought it was too good to be true.
Finley said that he'd been "chasing" Coldplay tickets for months and months, and he hadn't managed to get lucky.
"I thought, right, I'm not missing these. This is my chance", he said. "I ended up not getting a ticket as there weren't enough but I realised that there was Coldplay live at the Riverside in Kendal so I thought 'yeah, I'll get that, result', thinking it was a new gig.
"It didn't say anything about it being a cinema screen!"
Finley was so mad that he hadn't realised it was a cinema screening in Kendal of a gig Coldplay were doing in Argentina that he put up an "angry tweet", saying it didn't even go viral, so he was absolutely miffed when he woke up to see that Coldplay had messaged him directly.
On April 6, Finley tweeted: "I've just s*****d 25 quid on a Coldplay ticket thinking it was a concert, turns out it's a cinema screen in Kendal of a concert they're doing in Argentina.
"Are you taking the p***, it said live at the river plate I just presume that was the place in Kendal NOT ONCE did it say cinema. What a s***e start to the day."
He continued: "I’m so fuming ffs 25 quid for a cinema screen in Kendal I ain't going to that no way."
But today (June 12) Finley was left ecstatic after reading a direct message from Coldplay, asking him to join them on tour for a date in Amsterdam, all expenses paid.
He told the Mirror: "I couldn't believe it, I was pacing around the living room buzzing, and my nan was going 'don't believe it, they're having you on, it's one of them scams', and I had to double check but no, it really is Coldplay.
"For so long I've been trying to get Coldplay tickets and I missed out every single time, so the feeling of seeing that message will never leave me - it still doesn't feel real!"
Finley admitted that he's had "hundreds of people messaging asking to go" to the gig with him, but he doesn't know who to take.
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