With three days to go before billionaire businessman Donald Trump becomes America’s 45th president, a New York ticket scalper is getting nervous he won’t sell a pricey pair of tickets before the inauguration.

Yossi Rosenberg, a business development manager who reportedly voted for Hillary Clinton, bought the two tickets off Craigslist for $700.

“I never wanted to attend. I just wanted to flip the price,” Rosenberg told CTV News Channel on Tuesday.

His enterprising plan seems less and less likely by the day. He’s advertised the tickets on social media, including several pro-Trump Facebook groups. So far, he hasn’t been able to sell the tickets for a profit.

“Some people have said they would consider purchasing (the tickets), but I don’t want to sell them for less than what I bought them for,” he said.

Despite the lack of interest, Rosenberg says he isn’t giving up just yet. After some trouble advertising the tickets on Craigslist, he said he’s found a way to advertise them without using the word “inauguration,” which seemed to be causing his ad to be flagged for deletion.

“I’m pretty sure I can get what I paid for them, which is $350 each. I think I can probably finagle to break even in my investment,” he said.

If he can’t find any takers, Rosenberg says he’ll have to bite the bullet and attend the Washington, D.C. event on Friday himself.

“I mean, I paid all this money, I might as well just go to the inauguration and just suck it up,” he said.

Aside from Trump’s official swearing-in as president, the inauguration will include a line-up of guests including country singer Toby Keith, actor Jon Voight and the band 3 Doors Down, best known for their 2000 single “Kryptonite,” which hit No. 3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 that year.

Several musical acts have dropped out of the event, including Bruce Springsteen cover band the B-Street Band and Broadway star Jennifer Holliday, who said she apologized for her “lapse of judgement.”

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