Four Firkins

I'd take F44 and Haskell's over the Roch crew any day. Probably homerism on my part as I grew up in the cities. Cheers!

 

Are you kidding me, a liquor (beer) store soliciting donations in order to expand their business. This country is still a bastion of capitalism is it not? It would seem to me that any for profit enterprise either lives or dies via their ability to market a sought after product. If done so successfully the business will grow itself. I'm all for donating to worthy charities but a for profit business does not qualify as one.

 

Exactly, you obviously get it...

 

Post of the year!

 

So, just a quick update. With over 2/3 of the time passed, they have yet to hit the halfway point of their goal. I doubt they'll hit their goal, but they've collected a good chunk of change which will help them with their "cause." Wonder where they'll pull the other $20K or so they need for that new store.

 

Let's hope.. ya know... through business...

 

Most likely from their own bank account you know they are a profitable store so now they only need a 50% down payment

 

I thought that they only get the pledged funds if the goal is met.

 

most kickstarters are like this, but their indiegogo site says that they keep the funds whether the goal is met or not.

 

Extra lame! That just encourages bad behavior...

 

i want to bid the $1000 for dinner with alvey but then run my own kickstarter where 100 people can pay $10 to have dinner with alvey.

 

Win.

 

Holy. Shit. You, sir, are a genius. No lie, I'd fucking pay for that. Literally laughed out loud.

 

No offense, but anyone that donated to this is a complete moron. What a joke.

 

I hope none of the nay-sayers of the FF promotion are big Neil Young fans. If you are, you need to look at the record breaking (6.2 mil) Kickstart promo Neil did for his new online music Pono ($399 a pop).

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any charitable benefits coming from this venture....Ya'll better start burning those Harvest, Comes a Time, etc. LPs!!!

If a multi millionaire like NY thinks this is a good business move, I guess it's good enough for everyone else! Don't hate, I'm just sayin...Give if you want, Don't give if you don't agree w/ the program, it's just that simple.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/15/t...ckstarter/index.html?section=money_topstories

 

Kickstarter is an all or nothing. Indiegogo is always a get what is donated type thing.

 

yeah, it's almost as if there's a difference between buying a hi-tech media player and paying a cover charge to a fucking beer store. (with free stickers!)

 

Argumentum ab auctoritate
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority

 

The difference between the two is pretty substantial. Also, I've said it's a good business move for FF. That doesn't mean I agree with is or that I don't think it's just a cheap money grab instead of being an actual business. The Neil Young thing was mostly a pre-order of a product. Of the 18000+ backers, 15000+ were pre-orders of t he product. I'm all for that.

 

No one on here listens to Neil Young...this isn't Chronic Advocate.