[hackpgh-party] Re: Drink Tickets? Ticket price? Name?
- From: Mandy <steelgreypittsburgh@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: hackpgh-party@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:14:32 -0500
--> cynically: so why aren't we going back there? <--
No reason we couldn't have that I'm aware of. OTB was tossed out as an idea
and I don't think anyone was opposed. Nothing wrong with trying a new
place.
My point with that is not that we should have had this party at Brillobox,
but that I'm using experiences from that party to help with this one.
*m
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Derrick Brashear <shadow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Mandy <steelgreypittsburgh@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > --> my issue with "no drink tickets" is, what is my money buying
> > (rhetorically)
> >
> > at least if you get drink tickets you get something. <--
> >
> > I think you just made my point for me - better than I have been trying to
> > anyway (I get too wordy) :)
> >
> > This is how I see what you're getting if drink tickets are used:
> > * If you're a drinker, you're getting to pay $10. $5 for admission and
> $5
> > for a beer you could have gotten for $2.
> > * If you're not a drinker, you're getting to pay $10 for admission, and
> free
> > soda if you drink soda.
> >
> > Not fair to either party, really.
> >
> > Also, use of drink tickets cannot be "carefree" and managed only by OTB.
> > Here's why:
> > * Someone from the shop has to give them out to those that have
> purchased.
> > * Someone from the shop *absolutely has to* keep a close count on how
> many
> > are given out (this is protecting the group if nothing else - what
> happens
> > at the end of the night when that bowl of tickets contains more than we
> gave
> > out, thus having no funds to cover all of them?)
> > * Somone from the shop at the end of the night has to pay the bar for the
> > tickets they've collected. Which means someone has to stick around until
> > the bitter end and everyone has cleared out (at least from our party).
> > Staying until 2am is going to suck when you have to get up and go to work
> > Wednesday morning.
> >
> > And sticking around to pay the bar brings me to my last point. If the
> bar
> > is offering things to us for free, there's no reason we should be paying
> the
> > bar for anything, or giving them a cut of our proceeds, be it from drink
> > tickets or anything else.
> > * OTB would not be allowing us to have our party there for free if they
> were
> > not already going to make money on it. Plain and simple. It's a
> business,
> > and we're drawing a crowd of people into that business.
> > * Essentially, this is barter. They're certainly not going to pay any of
> us
> > for the time we're going to spend making posters or blazing around the
> > internet the fact that we want people to go to their bar. Free marketing
> =
> > free space.
> > * Going to bring this back up: We didn't pay the Brillobox a single
> dollar,
> > and THEY gave US drinks for free.
>
>
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