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ya most I read was $1200. I laughed at the guy who bought deluxe lodge package for $3500 though and was told to take a tent, any tent.
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Cruises: Good Value Vacation or White Trash Rafts?
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Why was I paged here and what movie am I writing? I got a day off tomorrow so someone actually elevator pitch and short form explain this mess in 3 sentences or less. I'll have a rough draft by end of day.
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Famous rapper announces a extremely upscale music festival on a Bahamas private island, with celebrity endorsements with tickets going from $500 to $250,000. 6 months later festival goers start arriving by chartered jets onto the island only to find that almost nothing has been built, food and water is scarce, security is nonexistent and theres no way to get back to mainland. Modern Lord of the Flies reenactment commences.
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I have a friend who in his 20s started out promoting club events and over a two or three yrs worked up to doing a small local 4 band all day concert mini-festival each summer. It took a solid 12 months of planing to make it happen. And it is boring as fuck, lots of meeting lawyers and tons contracts, selling vendor space and lining up sponsors, hiring emergency services and security before an insurance company will bond you and a venue won't rent to you till you have proof of all of that. It's all about getting your ducks in a row. Not to mention have capital to put down deposits on everything.
Anyone trying to add to that organizing travel + lodging + catering was high as fuck. It's too much to deliver and would take years to organize.
After my friend hung it up and switched gears to restaurateur , a few other kids tried following in his foot steps. Each one of them tanked it and got the shit sued out of them 8 ways from Sunday. It takes a special kind of organizational autistic spaz, who has good people skills and some family connections to mafia legbreakers to succeed doing that kind of gig.
Serious money to be made if you don't fuck it up. His first festival left him in the hole $50-60K, and he said he got off lucky. The next year it paid for his house in cash.
Anyone trying to add to that organizing travel + lodging + catering was high as fuck. It's too much to deliver and would take years to organize.
After my friend hung it up and switched gears to restaurateur , a few other kids tried following in his foot steps. Each one of them tanked it and got the shit sued out of them 8 ways from Sunday. It takes a special kind of organizational autistic spaz, who has good people skills and some family connections to mafia legbreakers to succeed doing that kind of gig.
Serious money to be made if you don't fuck it up. His first festival left him in the hole $50-60K, and he said he got off lucky. The next year it paid for his house in cash.
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Oh come on, where is your sense of lulz? It's not like this was some kind of top shelf elite Russian Cutler-Putin orgy party. Anyone with $750 to spare could go. Even poors like @tyen and @trex could probably scrape up enough to go.
It's funny because they paid "celebs" like
To be fair to Kendall Jenner, I don't blame her for being totally fucked up. I mean her biological mom and dad are the same person, and she has 2 moms.
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Oh dont get me wrong, I think its funny. I have a lot of friends in nightlife industry around the world, especially in US and my feed for 2 days was nothing but Fyre Fest shit.
But this has nothing to do with millennials, or people being stupid or whatever else people are "discussing" here The only constant thread I see is some sort of visceral hate from the normies who never got to go yacht parties, or Ibiza, or some afters, reveling now in how "it all gone Pete Tong" for the "spoiled brats"
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If this is a normal thing to buy all inclusive concert cruise packages with limited information and off of celebrity endorsements then it's well beyond my reality. I guess if I had been routinely doing this with success, I suppose I'd be surprised at how this blew up. But reading this it sounded more like an inevitability rather than a shocker
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Loser Araysar
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yeah, "inevitability" if all the customers were privy to all the behind the scenes stuff but no one was, and why would they be?
did blink-182 know it was going to be a disaster when they signed up for this? and theyre the headliners!
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Having seen Blink live in the 90s, I feel its safe to say every gig they play is a disaster.
Singing flat and playing out of tune. And not in a cool punk way. Probably worst live show I have seen.
They grew up in San Diego and we were only a few years apart. Saw them in parking lots when I was in high school before they made it big.
Not sure how their real concerts were but the parking lot punk at skate shows was good.
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Can anyone affirm this? Blink is a studio band? News to me. Opposite of what I've heard.
Their reason for canceling was due to a lack of sound equipment guarantee and stage equipment from my understanding, so I don't get that picture from them at all since they were willing to cancel to preserve themselves.
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