Operation: Find the Shittiest Deal on MyBeerCellar.com

[Beerontwowheels]

Hes not really increasing the value of the beer at all. It has already raffled for $650 twice.

Raffles should have no influence on the price of a beer. That seems ******* stupid. Just because you can find 15-20 idiots to risk $30- 40 for a chance to win a bottle doesn't mean one idiot will always pay $650.

Or maybe it does. Who the **** am I kidding.

 

[JulianB1]

Raffles should have no influence on the price of a beer. That seems ******* stupid. Just because you can find 15-20 idiots to risk $30- 40 for a chance to win a bottle doesn't mean one idiot will always pay $650.

Or maybe it does. Who the **** am I kidding.

Unfortunately it does for a very simple reason: a profit-maximizing shitlord will think to themselves "why sell this beer for $X when I can raffle it for $X+50?".

 

[brian4beer]

Unfortunately it does for a very simple reason: a profit-maximizing shitlord will think to themselves "why sell this beer for $X when I can raffle it for $X+50?".

Agree. I think these auctions have ****** up buying/trading even more than the JoelStore.

 

[DenverBeerDrinker]

Unfortunately it does for a very simple reason: a profit-maximizing shitlord will think to themselves "why sell this beer for $X when I can raffle it for $X+50?".

Agree. I think these auctions have ****** up buying/trading even more than the JoelStore.

Sounds like I need to start auctioning/raffling off some beer. This new dog and her toys are getting expensive

 

[abawol01]

Agree. I think these auctions have ****** up buying/trading even more than the JoelStore.

Not only is this true let's not forget how ******* stupid they are named. Razzles? All I can think about is the awful candy which is at least 10 orders of magnitude better than raffle prices being the trade value.

 

[Beerontwowheels]

Unfortunately it does for a very simple reason: a profit-maximizing shitlord will think to themselves "why sell this beer for $X when I can raffle it for $X+50?".

But surely, this can't be the worst we are capable of... How can we as a 'community' make things even worse? Maybe razzles just for the opportunity to purchase a bottle? Like some sort of freakish combo between razzles and mbc?

Who wants to push the envelope for us? We're all waiting...

 

[bramsdell]

http://mybeercellar.com/?itm=45525

$84 for two 750's of De Cam is actually a pretty good deal around here. I found, they're usually ~$40-50 in stores.

 

[JulianB1]

But surely, this can't be the worst we are capable of... How can we as a 'community' make things even worse? Maybe razzles just for the opportunity to purchase a bottle? Like some sort of freakish combo between razzles and mbc?

Who wants to push the envelope for us? We're all waiting...

Is it bad if I told you that something worse than this already exists? The expensive ones often have "satellites", where you enter a (cheaper) razzle to win slots in the main razzle. Some people are notorious for using these as a way to skim even more profit off the top (by pricing the satellite spots so that the total amount obtained is higher than if someone had just paid for the slot itself).

 

[cneville1]

Is it bad if I told you that something worse than this already exists? The expensive ones often have "satellites", where you enter a (cheaper) razzle to win slots in the main razzle. Some people are notorious for using these as a way to skim even more profit off the top (by pricing the satellite spots so that the total amount obtained is higher than if someone had just paid for the slot itself).

i have literally no idea what you guys have been talking about and i feel a little better for it

 

[JulianB1]

i have literally no idea what you guys have been talking about and i feel a little better for it

Imagine if the only way to win the lottery was to play and win a cheaper lottery. And yes, that's as stupid as it sounds.

 

[jeevo]

Having never heard of these Razzles and Satellites before, to me it sounds like ******* Inception involving beer lotteries.

 

[mateoloco]

Is it bad if I told you that something worse than this already exists? The expensive ones often have "satellites", where you enter a (cheaper) razzle to win slots in the main razzle. Some people are notorious for using these as a way to skim even more profit off the top (by pricing the satellite spots so that the total amount obtained is higher than if someone had just paid for the slot itself).

So basically akin to the personal seat licenses in sports, where you pay a ****-ton of money for the right to pay a ****-ton more money for a season ticket.

 

[Cruize4Gueuze]

Is it bad if I told you that something worse than this already exists? The expensive ones often have "satellites", where you enter a (cheaper) razzle to win slots in the main razzle. Some people are notorious for using these as a way to skim even more profit off the top (by pricing the satellite spots so that the total amount obtained is higher than if someone had just paid for the slot itself).

I am irrationally agree about this.

 

[cneville1]

Imagine if the only way to win the lottery was to play and win a cheaper lottery. And yes, that's as stupid as it sounds.

i don't even know what this first razzle thing is. people buy chances to win a beer? i am assuming this happens on facebook. also, if this is in fact the case, i am sure all of these raffles are done on the up and up and there's no way to rig them

 

[masterovkhaos]

So where do I go to raffle off the Last Snow bottles I'm about to go buy?

 

[JulianB1]

i don't even know what this first razzle thing is. people buy chances to win a beer? i am assuming this happens on facebook. also, if this is in fact the case, i am sure all of these raffles are done on the up and up and there's no way to rig them

They actually are pretty up-and-up in that respect, because the winning numbers used are the public Megaball/Powerball ones, so it's not possible to rig a raffle for a friend or whatever. Now it's still trusting someone to not rip others off when it comes to actually sending the beer...

 

[matedog]

I thought Razzle was the guy from that hair metal band that Vince Neil killed?

 

[Hookemhops13]

Why the **** are we calling them Razzles? Is it a typo that has just gotten continued out of ignorance? Everywhere I see them they are called Raffles, which makes much more sense because that word's definition is what they are - paying entry fee for a ticket and a chance to win the bottle.

 

[Labors Of Hercules]

Why the **** are we calling them Razzles? Is it a typo that has just gotten continued out of ignorance? Everywhere I see them they are called Raffles, which makes much more sense because that word's definition is what they are - paying entry fee for a ticket and a chance to win the bottle.

I think its to get around the facebook rules as "raffles" are not technically allowed.

 

[danbanana]

Who wants to push the envelope for us? We're all waiting...

Live-streamed whale tastings, charging $5 per person to watch. Basically like porn webcams only with, like, DQ. And more neckbeards.

Probably the same amount of ****s, though.

 

[Hookemhops13]

I think its to get around the facebook rules as "raffles" are not technically allowed.

Bourbon groups I'm in on Facebook call them raffles unless that changed in the last few weeks as I haven't checked in a while....

 

[Labors Of Hercules]

Bourbon groups I'm in on Facebook call them raffles unless that changed in the last few weeks as I haven't checked in a while....

I may be wrong, I just heard of these things the first time a few months ago and that's what someone told me.

 

[JulianB1]

Why the **** are we calling them Razzles? Is it a typo that has just gotten continued out of ignorance? Everywhere I see them they are called Raffles, which makes much more sense because that word's definition is what they are - paying entry fee for a ticket and a chance to win the bottle.

I have no idea where it started, I just assume someone initiated it as a joke and everyone else followed suit.

Live-streamed whale tastings, charging $5 per person to watch. Basically like porn webcams only with, like, DQ. And more neckbeards.

Probably the same amount of ****s, though.

This is pretty good, need to think of some others.

How about selling the right to possess (but not drink) a bottle? So you can post haul dick-swing pics with it and so on. But it has to be returned unopened.

In a similar vein, selling photographs of whale pours that have not previously been posted anywhere on social media. So then you can brag about having had the beer and get all those likes on your Instagram account, at a fraction of the cost.

 

[caaam]

Does someone have a link to the razzles thing? My Google fu is off today, and I can't seem to figure out what's going on with it

 

[danbanana]

Cellar Conglomerates: You buy membership into a group and your bottles are merged into the group's. Membership cost and bottles you bring determine your "level" within the group. At designated times, you can sign up for a share to participate in. Higher level members can participate in lower level shares. You can move up a level by paying more and providing bottles of appropriate status.

Why am I so good at this? Is there something wrong with me?

EDIT: And obviously there are annual membership fees to cover offsite storage fees, administration, etc.

And franchise fees, so each major metropolitan area has one.

...

Does anyone have the number for Shark Tank?

 

[user 306349]

I've been selling photo shoots to junior neckbeards where they can hold a large-format bottle like it's their dick in front of the beach wallpaper from Scarface.

money money make it.

 

[SSTroller]

How about selling the right to possess (but not drink) a bottle? So you can post haul dick-swing pics with it and so on. But it has to be returned unopened.

Am now working on prototypes of a bottle "chastity belt". Gotta retain that virgin unopened state.
Shark Tank here I come!

 

[Nico1]

Is it bad if I told you that something worse than this already exists? The expensive ones often have "satellites", where you enter a (cheaper) razzle to win slots in the main razzle. Some people are notorious for using these as a way to skim even more profit off the top (by pricing the satellite spots so that the total amount obtained is higher than if someone had just paid for the slot itself).

God yeah its just the worst.

Take this Julian Buck for example. Just look how many razzles hes part of right now.

Poor sap lost on sat for AB Zhukov w/ Vanilla

 

[JulianB1]

God yeah its just the worst.

Take this Julian Buck for example. Just look how many razzles hes part of right now.

Poor sap lost on sat for AB Zhukov w/ Vanilla

And so what? I'll make fun of stuff I do myself because I don't take any of this too seriously. And yeah, I'll gamble money on some bottles occasionally for fun despite knowing it's a "bad" deal in the long run. Same reason I occasionally buy a Powerball ticket without any illusions it's a good idea.

 

[user 306349]

And so what? I'll make fun of stuff I do myself because I don't take any of this too seriously. And yeah, I'll gamble money on some bottles occasionally for fun despite knowing it's a "bad" deal in the long run. Same reason I occasionally buy a Powerball ticket without any illusions it's a good idea.

**** you, we were almost billionaires that one time. and don't bring your fancy numbers into this.