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vansmack

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« Reply #3405 on: August 03, 2016, 03:42:48 pm »
Am I just not understanding the math? They bought the batch of 60 bottles for $80,000 and are reselling them at $1k per . . . thereby losing $20,000?

You're assuming they're selling all 60 this way, which they likely aren't. 

But you are correct that they are selling this allotment, actual # unknown, at a loss, but perhaps they made a mint on the others.
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« Reply #3406 on: August 03, 2016, 03:45:20 pm »
worth a few minutes of your time.  the photog really brings out obama's humanity, something that wasn't really done over the past 7.5 years.

Souza has been may favorite Insta/flickr follow in the last decade.
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« Reply #3407 on: August 03, 2016, 03:49:22 pm »
Am I just not understanding the math? They bought the batch of 60 bottles for $80,000 and are reselling them at $1k per . . . thereby losing $20,000?

You're assuming they're selling all 60 this way, which they likely aren't. 

But you are correct that they are selling this allotment, actual # unknown, at a loss, but perhaps they made a mint on the others.

or perhaps this is an implicit admission that they overpaid, there is no way they are going to make all their money back, so they're taking what they can get?
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« Reply #3408 on: August 03, 2016, 03:51:14 pm »
Am I just not understanding the math? They bought the batch of 60 bottles for $80,000 and are reselling them at $1k per . . . thereby losing $20,000?

You're assuming they're selling all 60 this way, which they likely aren't. 

But you are correct that they are selling this allotment, actual # unknown, at a loss, but perhaps they made a mint on the others.

or perhaps this is an implicit admission that they overpaid, there is no way they are going to make all their money back, so they're taking what they can get?
Yeah, I would think a rare wine would generally appreciate over time (and rarely, if ever, lose 50-60% of its market value in a year).

I sure would be pissed to be a person who spent 2-3k on a bottle of this through an exclusive sale only to have it offered to the general public a year later.
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« Reply #3409 on: August 03, 2016, 04:08:42 pm »
I sure would be pissed to be a person who spent 2-3k on a bottle of this through an exclusive sale only to have it offered to the general public a year later.

This is the real danger in my eyes, having done wine auctions in the past.
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« Reply #3410 on: August 05, 2016, 08:12:08 pm »

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« Reply #3411 on: August 06, 2016, 09:54:39 am »
man watching CBS This Morning I really wish I'd have been at Aaron Neville's 75th...... if you haven't read the biography of the Neville Brothers- The Brothers- you really should.. one of the best music related books....


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« Reply #3413 on: August 14, 2016, 05:42:06 pm »
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« Reply #3414 on: August 15, 2016, 07:32:07 pm »
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« Reply #3415 on: August 15, 2016, 09:32:50 pm »
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« Reply #3416 on: August 16, 2016, 01:34:35 pm »


Pretty sure I have an idea what's causing her chronic pain.
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« Reply #3418 on: August 16, 2016, 04:12:55 pm »
The Nightly Show was cancelled, which bums me out as Wilmore picked up nicely from Stewart with the outrage..  Apparently it was cancelled in part because it wasn't creating content for the youtube generation... so  are we really living in a world where nonsense like lip sync battle and car seat karoke is what people want... get off my damn lawn...

I wasn't a huge fan of the panel segments, but the other stuff was pretty good.
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« Reply #3419 on: August 16, 2016, 04:20:38 pm »
But as far as political memes go, Wilmore was way far behind his peers. I very rarely saw his stuff in my timelines, unlike Noah, Colbert, Oliver, Bee, and even Meyers.
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