Would You Pay $1,000 Once to Get Free Beer for Life?
Something people seem to be missing is that the customers in the bar in question aren't piss heads with nothing to do tomorrow. And they have friends.
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If I thought the bar owner would stay solvent for 6 months, yes I would pay $1,000 for free beer for life.
Unless the publican was a right di.khe.d or with a personality like ricecakes.
Unless the publican was a right di.khe.d or with a personality like ricecakes.
Note to self: Must be nice to morons.
OK...that's why you sent me that absurd PM...it all makes sense now...to get your $$'s worth that would have to have been more than 10 beers (retail price) - 15? 20? 25? 30?BirdBrain wrote:I remember when the red fox first opened it did a free flow for $5. I still have the hangover...
I love fish and chips with vinegar in newspaper!!!
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Excellent point.starkmonster wrote:I don't think it would work purely because beer is so cheap here that people who actively think about how to cut down their beer expenditure likely don't have $1000.
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
Could never work here on so many levels. Why? Because after collecting the $1,000 you would be disincentivized from selling more of your product ---- every beer you "sold" would be lost revenue. If your normal selling price is $1 per beer and the typical buyer of such an offer consumed at least 10 beers per week at your venue -- they would have consumed their "money's worth" in under two years.shizzle wrote:$1000 might be a bit rich for all the hand-to-mouth alcoholic expats about, but I would imagine that even a quarter of that price could prove profitable for a PP-bar owner - especially given the flow of expats in and out of the country, either through repatriation or a waft of smoke from their local wat. The barkeep could limit the beers to canned Angkor and Anchor for consumption only by the 'investor' (no shouting drinks) and the patron would probably regularly order food and he might also invite non-investor friends along who will be paying for their own drinks, etc. The only other problem with the deal is that the bar would need to remain in business. If 100 people signed up at $250/person, the bar owner would be sitting on $25,000, which might be enough to send him off the rails.
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Would You Pay $1,000 Once to Get Free Beer for Life?
A brewpub and a coffee shop in Minnesota's Twin Cities have used this one-time payment method to save their businesses. And there's no reason to think the model can't spread.
MAYBE it would work if you had something to "sell up" to when they came for their beer ---- like high profit food options.
Ultimately it would work out bad for the consumer too (even setting aside the fact that the seller might just fold and do a runner with the money) ----- because a disincentivised seller is one that will invariably wind up offering mediocre product --- e.g., staff with bad attitudes, very slowly serving you piss warm stale beer.
Taxi, we'd rather walk. Huddle a doorway with the rain dogs The Rum pours strong and thin. Beat out the dustman with the Rain Dogs; Oh, how we danced and you Whispered to me ... You'll never be going back home
Partial Lyrics - Tom Waits
Partial Lyrics - Tom Waits
I seem to recall a shitty hotel doing a similar deal in Pattaya a couple of years ago, but that entailed free room and food from the menu for life in exchange for something like $10k.
If a hotel owner in Pattaya - or a bar owner in PNH - needs to raise cash in this kind of way it's a sure thing that the establishment isn't going to be round for long enough to get a good return on the investment.
If a hotel owner in Pattaya - or a bar owner in PNH - needs to raise cash in this kind of way it's a sure thing that the establishment isn't going to be round for long enough to get a good return on the investment.
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I'm certain with beer consumption most expats in Cambodia live by the motto - ''Everything in moderation'' and this sort of deal could lead to excessive consumption rather than the usual tipple after dessert.
"I don't care what the people are thinking, i ain't drunk i'm just drinking"
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You would need the customers to die pretty soon after they gave you the thousand bucks in order to make some cash:
"Oh, he fell down the stairs and broke his neck"
"Oh, he went crazy and jumped from the top of his condo"
"Oh, he went for a picnic at the lake and sadly drowned"
I'm not serious btw.
"Oh, he fell down the stairs and broke his neck"
"Oh, he went crazy and jumped from the top of his condo"
"Oh, he went for a picnic at the lake and sadly drowned"
I'm not serious btw.
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I think as part of a bigger, more robust business plan, it might have some merit. Obviously, I would be thinking a bar with lots of trees would be part of that plan. We all know how many lives those trees can take prematurely.
Nothing but an opinionated tourist. The Pope spends more time in countries than I do ! It is also not my place to comment on a gentleman's dress. A real 23 minute wonder, that obviously knows little about ovens and cooking in Cambodia.
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The general consensus seems to be that assuming the bar stays in business (maybe the funds should be held in an escrow account and chunks dispersed over time), this seems like a pretty good deal for the alcoholic patrons. From the bar owner's perspective:
- We need a lower-bound age limit. We can't have a 20-something equivalent of PB coming to the bar every night for the next 20 years.
- It might be better to target only cashed-up fresh-off-the-boat elderly expats. (Perhaps have a mint jar filled with Viagra by the register to give their weak hearts that extra push.)
- We could commission the tuk-tuk drivers who used to sit outside the Royal Hiness. Alternatively, just set the bar up at Golden Soriya.
- We don't want loners coming in who will just sit and drink 10 beers straight without inviting any friends, without eating anything or just ordering a $1 hot-dog take-away. We will need a few hostesses there who will berate these customers for being cheap charlies. We will either see some lady drink sales or the customer will get fed up and piss off.
- Limit the hours of operation. True alcoholics are going to be drinking all day. Let them pregame elsewhere.
- We need a lower-bound age limit. We can't have a 20-something equivalent of PB coming to the bar every night for the next 20 years.
- It might be better to target only cashed-up fresh-off-the-boat elderly expats. (Perhaps have a mint jar filled with Viagra by the register to give their weak hearts that extra push.)
- We could commission the tuk-tuk drivers who used to sit outside the Royal Hiness. Alternatively, just set the bar up at Golden Soriya.
- We don't want loners coming in who will just sit and drink 10 beers straight without inviting any friends, without eating anything or just ordering a $1 hot-dog take-away. We will need a few hostesses there who will berate these customers for being cheap charlies. We will either see some lady drink sales or the customer will get fed up and piss off.
- Limit the hours of operation. True alcoholics are going to be drinking all day. Let them pregame elsewhere.
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