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There was only one police officer manning the streets in California, Friday night.
Greenfield Teacher Accused Of Inappropriate Behavior
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Fraternity Suspended From CMU During Investigation
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Braddock Officers Suspended After Fight
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Prosecutors: Taxpayers Cheated Over $30K By Orie Melvin Campaigns
The corruption trial for suspended State Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin resumed Thursday morning.
Testimony Resumes In Orie Melvin Corruption Trial
The corruption trial of Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin and her sister, Janine Orie continues Tuesday.
Testimony Continues in Orie Melvin Trial
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Jury selection is now underway in the corruption trial for suspended Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie-Melvin and her sister, Janine.
Steelers Stop Negotiations With Mike Wallace As Holdout Continues
Wallace chose not to report to Latrobe for training camp, and the Steelers chose to suspend negotiations with the star receiver.
Sources: State Trooper Suspended, Under Investigation
A local state trooper is facing some serious allegations. Sources have confirmed with the KDKA Investigators that the trooper is under investigation for alleged leaks to a dangerous motorcycle gang member.
4-1-Zoo: J.J. Moore Suspended
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Pryor Works Out For 17 NFL Teams
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Pryor In Supplemental Draft, 5 Game Suspension
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Live-Donor Liver Transplant Program Suspended At UPMC
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26 October 2008 11:01
Bradley Smith narrowly missed out on a podium finish in the final round of the 125GP championship in Valencia with Simone Corsi taking the win.
Smith started from fifth on the grid but slipped back to eighth by the end of lap 3.
He worked his way back up through the field and took advantage of the fight between Nicolas Terol and Sandro Cortesi to slip up to third with six laps to go.
It looked like he'd used up his tyres in the dash through the field though as he ran wide two laps later letting Terol back through forcing him to settle for fourth at the line.
The dice for the lead was constantly between Mike DiMeglio, Simone Corsi and Nicolas Terol with 1st place swapping constantly between Dimeglio and Terol.
But Di Meglio had a big front end slide with two laps to go and slipped to third leaving the Jack and Jones team mates Corsi and Terol to take the first two spots on the podium.
Brit Scott Reading had a race long fight with Tommy Koyama for seventh place but eventually lost out to the KTM rider on the line. Danny Webb crashed out from the back of the field with 18 laps to go.
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By Paul McCreath: Now that David Haye has pulled out of his proposed bout with Vitali Klitschko, the question arises as to who will Vitali fight now. He was supposed to meet Haye on Sept 12. One can assume that he would want to find another opponent for that same date and place but who will it be?
Until recently, Vitali was negotiating with Chris Arreola for the September bout. Haye looked like a bigger attraction so he was chosen until he backed out. It would seem logical that Arreola would become the best choice for "plan B". This may not be as automatic as it seems. Arreola's team has shown some reluctance to throw Chris into the deep end with Vitali quite so soon. Understandably they think he may not be ready yet since he has still to meet his first top 10 fighter. There has been talk of an eliminator with Oleg Maskaev which would give Chris more experience before meeting Vitali. My guess is that Vitali will pick Arreola as his first choice but it is anybody's guess if Chris will jump at the chance. Probably he will in my opinion.
If Arreola turns down the opportunity for a title shot, another good choice would be Eddie Chambers. Eddie would be seen as a safer risk because he doesn't hit as hard as Chris and he is smaller. Eddie is already in the mandatory position in the WBO for a shot at Wladimir Klitschko but he will likely have to wait until after Wladimir takes care of his IBF obligation to fight Alex Povetkin. He may think that a quick chance against Vitali and the World Boxing Council title is better than waiting for Wlad. One alphabet title is about as good as the other.
Ray Austin and Oleg Maskaev are both rated highly by the WBC but Vitali does not want to meet Maskaev and Austin is a Don King fighter. The Klitschkos do not deal with Don King so I think you can scratch Ray from the possibility list. The only other name that comes to mind among those who are available would be Kevin Johnson if he gets by Odlanier Solis on August 15. Solis might also be interested if he beats Johnson. Maybe August 15 is the key if Vitali is willing to wait that long. Oh yes, there is always John Ruiz. No, I don't think so. It just would not sell.
In my opinion the best alternative now is Chris Arreola. Whatever you might think of him he would be an attraction to the American fans as long as he wants the fight. We should not have to wait long to find out.
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"I am the Property Manager at Woolsthorpe Manor. When I was a qualified geologist I was particularly interested in historic buildings and building stone but a car accident cut that career a bit short so I went to work at a hospital, which was a great job, but it didn't really capture my interest. Somebody suggested that I should look for a job with the National Trust. I applied for a couple of jobs, which I didn't get so I started doing a part time MA in Heritage Management. When this particular job came up it was advertised on the National Trust website; I applied and it was probably my science background that was the clincher!
I was terrifically pleased but there had been quite a gap between the previous manager leaving and myself, we had a week of hand over about three months before I started. There was a tremendous lot to learn but everyone was very friendly and welcoming.
My job is as business manager for this particular National Trust property; I oversee its future developments, staff management, fund raising; I liase with experts on things like conservation, planning considerations, building works and keep the place repaired and running. It is such a varied job, there is a tremendous amount in it but it is good fun. I like developing the house especially. We have done a lot of work to improve the interpretation of the house and to make the rooms feel as though the family has just left. Doing things like that is really satisfying when you see people's reactions. When they are pleased and they appreciate what you have done, it is great. Lately the turnover of business has increased but unfortunately so have the costs. The place expanded and changed a lot over the years during the times of previous managers and continues to do so. There are a lot of things that can still happen. Some of our most immediate projects are Museums Accreditation; a project to plan for the renewal of the Science Centre, and setting up a bursary studentship scheme. These are the next things on the list really. In the house itself we are working on the fireplaces to get that more 'lived in' look.
We get visitors from all over the world. We have people who feel they are on a pilgrimage. The weather can make a difference; people know that because they will be indoors, they can come to us in wet weather. If there has been a lot of rain and then it turns sunny, everybody goes to the garden centre! There is a lot of hands-on stuff here, especially in the Science Centre, which makes this a most unusual National Trust property. Increasingly a lot of National Trust properties are moving towards having more interactive displays.
Margaret talks to a lot of groups when they come here. Janice, one of our volunteers goes out to Women's Institutes and similar groups. She dresses up in her 17th century costume. We all have one; you can't get me into mine and you can't get Janice out of hers! One of her talks is called 'Dirty and Smelly', about real life in the 17th century. It brings in the use of herbs and that sort of thing.
In the winter the first thing that happens is that everything in the house has a very detailed clean. Sometimes a piece of ceramic is cleaned with a cotton bud. It is very close work that takes about three weeks of full-time work to get the house cleaned and shut down, including hoovering the walls and ceilings. This takes us towards the end of November and then we usually have a tremendous amount of project work and financial and strategic planning for next year that takes us towards Christmas. Then projects, press work and ordering for the shop. Also we plan events for the volunteers. We try to have a social calendar for them throughout the year. Then we do try to have a break if we can as it is difficult to get one in the summer. We are kept busy all the year round."
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|Tarleton State loses game with 63 points, then loses record
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Bernard Scott ran for school-record 283 yards and six touchdowns, including a winning 10-yard score with a minute left Saturday, to give Abilene Christian a 70-63 NCAA Division II victory.
Tarleton State's 63 points matched the most points ever scored by a losing team in a game that didn't go to overtime. But that record stood for only a few hours.
Later Saturday night, Weber State beat Portland State 73-68 to set an NCAA all-division record for most points in a game, as well as the most points by a losing team. Weber State and Portland State are in the Football Championship Subdivision, formerly known as I-AA.
The final score of the Abilene-Tarleton game matched San Jose State's 70-63 regulation victory over Rice on Oct. 2, 2004.
Scott, who had 29 carries, also completed a pass for 66 yards. Abilene Christian had 715 total yards, the second-highest in team history.
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Babysitters' wages see big gains
Rates are surging to as much as $18 an hour, far outrunning inflation over the past few decades.
As fast-food workers from McDonald's (MCD) and other chains stage walkouts to protest for higher wages, they might want to turn their attention to another of America's entry-level jobs: the humble babysitter.
While pay for most Americans has stalled, babysitters have seen their wages rise at a rate nine times faster than inflation since the early 1980s, the Boston Globe reports, citing data from the Labor Department.
The average rate for babysitters is now about $12 per hour, while fast-food workers earn anywhere from the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour to $9 an hour. In fact, babysitters make more than health care aides or retail workers, the Globe noted.
Babysitters command the highest hourly rates in San Francisco, where a family with three children shells out more than $18 per hour. Philadelphia is a relative bargain at slightly less than $12 per hour, while New York City parents can pay from about $13 per hour to more than $16, depending on the number of kids. (Of course, San Francisco and New York rank among the costliest cities to live in and have high-income residents from the tech and finance worlds.)
What's behind the rise in babysitting wages? Parents now expect more experienced sitters, and they seek those with early-education degrees or language skills, such as fluency in Mandarin, the story notes.
"College students, child development majors, nursing students come with a premium and the understanding that the sitter will be very engaged with the child," Lynn Perkins, the chief executive of UrbanSitter, told the Globe.
While sitters are better off these days, the surging rates are causing anxiety in parents. One blog post at A Child Grows asks: "Are you paying your babysitter enough?" And a 2012 survey of parents in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood found that date night costs an average of $158.
That's causing some parents to cut back on going out.
"They're so expensive you can't really afford them," Heather Walker, a mother of two, told the Globe about hiring sitters. "My husband and I have been on about five dates in five years."
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What happened to having a teenager watch your kids for a few hours to go watch a movie? I don't need a college student who speaks Mandarin for that -
Daycare and preschool - maybe a nanny - but that is way different than a sitter once a month for a date night with my husband! I can still get a high school kid to watch my two kids for the night for $20.00.
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A 24% rise in second-quarter equity sales and trading revenues at Credit Suisse's (CS) investment bank, together with higher revenues from fixed income and underwriting, helped the division double pretax profits from the same period last year.
The five big U.S. investment banks - JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley - posted an aggregate rise in equity sales and trading revenues of 47% versus the second quarter last year and 15% versus the first quarter of this year. Financial News reported this week that analysts believed Credit Suisse and Swiss rival UBS were in prime position to benefit from the same tailwinds that boosted their rivals on Wall Street.
At Credit Suisse, which opened the second-quarter earnings season for European investment banks this morning, revenues from equities climbed 24% from CHF1.08 billion in the same period last year to CHF1.34 billion, thanks predominantly to "substantially higher results in derivatives," particularly in Asia and the U.S. The figure marked a 3% rise from the first quarter this year.
In fixed-income sales and trading, too, revenues lagged Wall Street. U.S. banks posted an aggregate 14% year-on-year revenue rise from that business, although second-quarter results were 21% below the first-quarter performance.
At Credit Suisse, improved performances in credit products, securitized products, foreign exchange and commodities pushed fixed-income revenues up 13% from a year ago to CHF1.3 billion, although the figure marked a 37% drop from the "seasonally strong" first quarter this year.
Fixed-income sales and trading was the only business at Credit Suisse's investment bank to post a quarter-on-quarter revenue decline, with underwriting and advisory work posting double-digit percentage rises.
Compared with the second quarter last year, underwriting revenues surged 89% to Sfr742 million as results were boosted by higher debt revenues from leveraged finance and emerging markets, and "substantially higher" revenues from follow-on equity offerings. The latter, combined with higher IPO and convertibles revenues, drove equity underwriting revenues up 123% from a year ago to CHF27 million. Debt underwriting revenues surged 78% to CHF535 million over the same period.
Advisory work was the only area where revenues declined compared with the second quarter last year, dropping 29% to CHF167 million on the back of lower industry-wide merger and acquisition activity.
Total revenues at the investment bank increased 24% from a year ago to CHF3.4 billion, 14% below their first-quarter level, while pre-tax profits more than doubled from CHF314 million a year ago to CHF754 million in the second quarter this year.
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Business Ideas in the News / July 11, 2012
A showcase makeover is marking out the Manly Gelatissimo kiosk which is now sporting 52 trays of gelato in its curved display cabinet instead of the customary 32 flavours on show in traditional shopfront layouts.
The Manly kiosk has the challenge of foot traffic approaching from two different directions on two sides of the outlet. A display cabinet with a curved design combined with new cabinet technology was the solution.
Joint Gelatissimo CEO Domenico Lopresti said "We know that the customers are happy with the refubishment as we have already seen an impact on sales movement.
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Friday Charts - 5/19/06
You can't make stuff up like the comments a few entries below. For the past three weeks or so I emailed a few different people at the Street Scene, hoping to hear some tips on bands that were playing or maybe even get some tickets to give away to readers of this website. I didn't hear anything until today when the design and media director of the Street Scene read my blog and called me "retarted" and "a joke" for suggesting that a Replacements reunion at the Street Scene might be an event worth getting excited about. I don't imagine that this kind of confrontation happened before the rise of the internet, and I think that we're all better for the chance to be randomly insulted by a grown man.
Intimate Secretary - Maybe my favorite song on the album (It's better live)
Secondly, tickets for the Raconteurs July 19th show at Soma go on sale tomorrow at 10 AM…technically…They are also available right now at the Raconteurs presale site. You need a password to get in, but I'll spare you the 10 seconds that took to obtain - it is "brokenboy". Tickets are a slightly pricey meat-a ball, at $30 a pop, especially for an album that didn't particularly distinguish itself the first couple of times you listen to it, but check out the ridiculous solos in the above video. I'm not one to doubt Jack White's powers. Bad things happen to the last guy who did that.
Thirdly, I saw the above image on BoingBoing today. I'm not sure what it was specifically referencing, but it made me think about the recent lawsuit filed by the RIAA against XM radio. It's broken down very well here, but basically the RIAA has decided to sue XM for making devices like the XM radio I have, that essentially act as Tivo's for your radio, allowing you to record 5 hours of music. You can't take the music off, you can't give it to a friend, five hours is a pretty short amount of music to record, and it's not CD quality. But that doesn't stop the RIAA, whose next logical plan would have to be to seek out and sue all the widows of Gulf War veterans, just in case there are people out there who they haven't alienated yet. It's one thing when the poor guy who opens up the Authentic Kazakhstan Restaurant in Pacific Beach's business fails, you kind of feel sorry for that poor guy. When its a bunch of dicks like the RIAA who seem completely unwilling to seize upon the advances and goodwill exhibted by the public towards the exciting future of music and music technology, there's just no sympathy to be had. XM has a good rebuttal of their own right here, they come across as 100% pro consumer. I wonder what the RIAA's message to their consumers would be…
Fourthly, we arrive at the Charts. Some major releases have been hapening lately. Let's see what the ten most seeded albums are at a certain file sharing portal. Links go someplace with album samples, live bootlegs, crazy remixes, criticism, maybe ALL FOUR!
1. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
2. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
3. Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
4. Tool - 10,000 Days
5. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
6. The Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off
7. The Streets - The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living
8. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
9. Neil Young - Living With War
10. Angels & Airwaves - We Don't Need To Whisper
No real comments, many of these albums have been around for a while. What's more interesting to me is what didn't turn up on the list. Pitchfork has given out a few highly touted reviews lately, giving Shogun Kunitoki, Beirut and the Futureheads "recommended" status and Scott Walker and Danielson "Best New Music" status. These are usually enough to catapault something into the top ten, like has happened to Band of Horses, or Tapes 'n Tapes. I don't know if it necessarily signifies a decline in the influence of Pitchfork on peoples downloading habits, but it is interesting to note.
Finally, three of these bands are rumored to be playing the Street Scene, #s 2, 4 and 10. I didn't even realize that Angels & Airwaves was a Blink 182 related project until I looked for MP3s to link to. I guess when you are retarded, you tend to be fuzzy on the details.
The Hits Keep On Coming - Fifty On Their Heels
UPDATE: I've posted the Street Scene lineup, with MP3 links, here.
You know the feeling you get as you sit in an airport waiting for you flight to take off when you have a connecting flight you have to make? You're there an hour early, sitting in the terminal waiting. You notice the airplane hasn't arrived yet. No matter, you've still got plenty of time. As long as you take off no less than an hour late, you'll still be fine for your connection. But it gradually become a battle between optimism and reality, and as the clock starts ticking down, you come to the grim realization ten minutes before your deadline that the plane's not coming, you're going to miss your connection, and your vacation is ruined.
Well that's what this past week has been like watching the Street Scene rumors trickle in. The latest, collected nicely for us at the UT's Liner Notes, indicate that She Wants Revenge, My Chemical Romance, Yellowcard and possibly Tool are added to the lineup. The possibility of pulling off an event to rival Lollapalooza that same August weekend appears to have evaporated almost laughably quickly, and as the clock ticks down towards the Monday lineup annoucement, one can only hope that whoever is piloting the Street Scene plane pulls off some Chuck Yeager style heroics to bring the bird in safely. What is most unsettling about the whole thing is not the lack fo indie buzz bands, or major headliners, but rather that the Street Scene seems completely focused in the absolute nadir of shitty genres: the emo/punk bands.
The problem with these bands, none of which I have ever listened to and could not name a song or album by, is that they forgot something about the very basics of punk. Though the Sex Pistols were angry, and the Ramones could only play three chords, both of these bands were essentially pop music gone horribly awry. If you take away the sneering vocals, some of the distortion and slow it all down a wee bit, you've got a sixties pop song. Maybe take out the abortion and glue sniffing subject matter, but anyways. Bands like The Clash would further expound upon the inherent poppiness in early punk music, creating songs that build, segue, flow, you know, songs that behave like Beatles songs. I remember in 8th grade when Green Day came out with Dookie, and all the magazines talked about was the "return of punk." I was confused then, and only now realize that what they meant was the return of punk that you can actually listen to. Nobody's saying you have to puss out to make a pop-esque punk album. But at some point in time, I imagine that artists get a bit tired of playing unpleasant music, and decide that more ambitious goals (the long rumored fourth chord!) are worth a shot.
So as an antidote for the shitty punk/emo that the Street Scene is offering up, I present to you San Diego's own Fifty On Their Heels. Listening to these guys the past couple days has really made me aware of the fact that a record does't have to go by at 120 mph and be shoved down your throat to be punk. The singer has a voice that you'll feel like you've heard many times before, sort of snotty, faux British. But where the band really shines is the music, which manages to never sound the same, and even accomplishes the ultimate punk coup of incorporating different musical passages and even different instruments into the same song. You know how on American Idiot, Green Day had a couple nine minute song "suites" that sounded like 6 different songs put together? Well my favorite song on the album, Occupation, pulls off a similar trick in just three and a half minutes. I hear traces of Rancid in the beginning, and Sex Pistols in the vocals, with a Strokes kind of guitar lick for the chorus and a Clash style breakdown all before it builds to an utterly triumphant, cut off too brief finale.
The guys sound like they're having fun. Which is important. But more important, they sound like the kind of band that you could have fun going to see. Fortunately for you, they're playing two shows in San Diego in June, and will be playing lots more all summer long. Check out the myspace page for dates, a few more streaming songs as well as info on where to get their new CD. San Diego has been on a roll with local bands lately. It's too bad that the major summer festival looks headed in the opposite direction.
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June 13th @ The Casbah
Snoop @ The Street Scene
UPDATE: I've posted the Street Scene lineup, with MP3 links, here.
Pollstar has added Snoop Dogg and Steel Pulse to the lineup. Snoop was there last year, I don't know who Steel Pulse is. CityBeat also came out today, with some speculation:
In the pure rumor department, we�ve heard strong �chatter� about Tom Petty, Tool, Modest Mouse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Angels & Airwaves. And Vegas odds favor Wilco, Matisyahu, Kanye West and Gnarls Barkley also showing up.
All four of those "Vegas Odds" guys are already at Lollapalooza that weekend, so maybe they will share a plane. There's still nobody on there that's got me excited. Trying to pick who the "headliner" would be is difficult, there's nobody that is "Brag worthy" so to speak. Tom Petty in particular screams mediocrity. One thing that did hit me at some point in time was the fact that The Replacements are releasing two new songs on a new greatest hits album soon. You figure that them playing a live show isn't out of the question, and a huge summer festival would probably be the place to do it…
A Good Way To Get People To Talk About Your CD
Within a month of starting this website, I got an email from a random Northern band. They wanted to know if I would like a copy of their album, ostensibly to check out and hopefully hype on the website. Well of course I wanted it. The novelty of a band wanting to send me their CD was pretty neat, and even if they didn't come from San Diego, maybe I could learn about something new and bask in the shallow, thankless, reflective glory that is being the "first person" to tell you about a band.
Well, it turns out that I didn't particularly like the CD. It wasn't god awful, but it wasn't something I was going to stick my neck out and talk about just because they sent me a CD. It actually arrived while I was visiting New York, so it had been sitting in the mailbox when I got home, along with an email from the band asking if I'd got it yet. I replied that I had, but had been out of town and was going to listen the first chance I got. Not having a job, this was not a problem. I listened a few times. Nothing struck me. But I got a few more emails, asking what I thought. Then one of the guys IM'd me. He told me that he'd read my review of "A Confederacy of Dunces" at amazon.com. I read a Confederacy of Dunces in 1999, my senior year in high school, and did not remember writing a brief review of it at Amazon.com
Needless to say, I did not respond. In fact, I think I made sure my windows were locked. Anyways, this is a textbook way to not get someone to write about your CD.
A good way to GET someone to write about your CD is to send them a really good CD. And someone did that to me just yesterday: Nathan Asher & The Infantry - Sex Without Love. The hype aroudn the album stresses that one of the songs had won two potentially made up songwriting competitions that I had never heard of. Having Won numerous blog competitions myself, most notably the Conor Lastowka Blog Writing Award, and the My Cat's Butt Invitational, this did not impress me. But the quality of the song "Thursday Night/Friday Morning" (not the award winner) did. It's the album closer, and builds from a quiet song mainly featuring the singers Oberst-like wavery vocals (a good thing), into a great drum and key heavy fake-ending-climax-then-reprise, which, as we all know, is the only proper way to end an album.
It would be foolish to base an album recommendation just that one song, (see Spacehog - In The Meantime), so don't just take my word for it. Kwaya Na Kisser recommends the album as well, and has a few more MP3s for you to check out. I think that any band that has it together enough to pull off the album closer they do is worth giving a chance to the rest of their material. So if you want, check out the CD at CDBaby.
And seriously, check out A Confederacy Of Dunces. I stand by that recommendation from my 18 year old self.
Street Scene Lineup!!! is coming on May 22nd
UPDATE: I've posted the Street Scene lineup, with MP3 links, here.
An announcement on the Street Scene myspace page says that the line up will be announced on May 22nd, which is Monday. No other surprised have reared their heads lately, but the Raconteurs won't be part of the mix. They announced tour dates today, and will be in scenic Michigan and Cleveland during the Street Scene.
You know how at the end of the Wizard of Oz, after the Wizard has given the other three guys their things, Dorothy says something to the effect of "I don't think you can fit what I want in that bag"? Well unless they're pulling some serious strings, or entering into Frankenstein-esque resurrection territory with the line up, I'm not quite sure what they're gonna pull out of that bag on Monday is going to prove to be that exciting. Guns n' Roses would be sweet though…
More info on bands that we know about here, here, here, and here.
Effi Briest, We Hardly Knew Ye OR A Few Good Concerts This Week
We had an interesting experience trying to go check out Grand Ole Party at Gelato Vero Saturday night. In yet another case where knowing when a band might actually take the stage being the most vital bit of information you could possibly know, we arrived as the first band was winding down. Terrific, since we were told the band we came to see would be playing second. So we sat around, talked about dentists, drank beer out of paper bags, and waited for the band to start.
Right about the time someone knocked a clarinet over while they were setting up, the horrible realization set in that the next band wasn't going to be GOP, but rather Effi Briest, who are named after German realist Theodor Fontane's masterpiece and who choose the following sentence to entice you to their shows: "It's got touches of psychedelia but also it's seven women and we have a very full explorative sound."
So if you were wondering who the four people who came to Gelato Vera for an hour, drank beers out of paper bags, and left right before the band started, that was us.
Moving on to what will hopefully be an eventful week of interesting musical events:
-On Wednesday, May 17th, there is an event called Diva Nova at the Winston's in OB, featuring "17 Women Who Rock Your World."
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The info page over at Beach Music Mafia claims that:
San Diego has been a beacon for some of the best musicians and singer-songwriters in the country. Specifically female musicians and singer-songwriters. There must be something in the air or maybe it�s the benevolent music scene that nurtures the artists� soul and begets that fine blend of talent, style, beauty and grace.
Telling me this is like the equivilent of saying that below temperatures of 223 Kelvin, it is impossible for Hydrogren and Carbon atoms to form covalent bonds. It's very possible that you might be correct, so I will slowly nod my head. But there's been an exciting amount of good music in the area going on these days, so I figure I'll keep the good vibe going. Performers include Podunk Nowhere, Anna Troy and Lisa Sanders.
Then we have Thursday night at the Casbah, where Fox Rox is putting on a show to celebrate their 200th episode. They've got Transfer, Gram Rabbit, and The Bloody Hollies lined up to play, and it promises to be a damn good time. I talked to Wesley Doyle from the Bloody Hollies back in the first couple weeks I started this website, and after getting shut out of the first show I tried to go see them at, I've been waiting for another chance. Check out the show, or at least just acknowledge and respect the guys at Fox Rox for making it to 200 episodes. Just think, every other city in America is watching King Of The Hill reruns on Fox on Thursdays at midnight.
Transfer - Henry Doesn't Stand
Gram Rabbit - Witness & Dirty Horse
The Bloody Hollies - Swing
They Throw Such Killer Grand Ole Partys
Malcolm Gladwell introduced us all to his concept of snap decision making in his book "Blink." He talked about experts being able to size up a situation, be it a failing relationship or the likelihood of a new product to succeed, in just a few seconds, based on unconscious analysis that even the experts themselves couldn't understand. I think that I experience Blink moments myself with music every now and then. I can think of any number of artists, songs or records that took time to sink in, and whose brilliance was revealed gradually. Many of these musical works I disliked initially, because it's easy to equate "Not Getting It" with dislike.
But there are other times when "Blink" type decisions occur, and within 5 seconds of a song starting up, I can tell that it's something special. The last time it happened was with the Seeger Sessions album, and it happened again last night when I read some of the comments on here recommending some local bands. One of the suggested groups was San Diego's Grand Ole Party. Most myspace pages play a song for you automatically when they load. This can usually be an annoyance, but in the case of this band it works as a hook. It tells you that you made the right decision coming to their myspace page, and that you're going to want to stick around and check things out.
Both of the songs on the page, Insane and Look Out Young Son result in the rarest of myspace page phenomenoms: seeking out the "Volume Up" button rather than "frantically looking for the Mute Button with the driven purpose of someone looking for the abort button as a bomb ticks down its final seconds". Both songs feature guitar and drums that are gloriously sleazy and dirty. They slink and lurch along, rockin all the way. The music sounds sort of like the rawness of early White Stripes like "Jimmy The Exploder," played with the slow back alley coolness of Tom Waits at his most mysterious. But the hook is the singer, who is also the drummer, who is also a lady who can wail like Cassandra from Crucial Taunt. (Watched Wayne's World last weekend, that chick can sing.)
In short, this band sounds like it is A) destined to get signed and release some great material, hopefully some time soon, and B) most definitely rocks live. Fortunately, there's a chance to see them in town tonight, at what is hands the most rockin venue in San Diego that I didn't know existed until today: Gelato Vero in Little Italy, which features Italian Ice Cream, Pastries, Coffee, Performances, Music, Art. If you can't make it there, they're playing both the Whistlestop and the Casbah before the month is over, on the 25th and 28th respectively.
Highly recommended, for now and to keep an eye on.
Video of the band performing at the Casbah
Grand Ole Party - Insane
Grand Ole Party - Look Out Young Son
Review of a show last week at the San Diego Sports Club at Cat Dirt Sez
Another Street Scene Band = Bloc Party
UPDATE: I've posted the Street Scene lineup, with MP3 links, here.
The Street Scene lineup continues to be revealed, piece by piece. Still waiting for something huge to drop, but Brooklyn Vegan posts that Bloc Party has the Street Scene on their tour itinerary.
More Street Scene Rumors - Tapes 'n Tapes?
UPDATE: I've posted the Street Scene lineup, with MP3 links, here.
The rumor mill for Street Scene 2k6 keeps chugging along. Lots of talk about Tapes 'n Tapes joining the festivities, based on their touring with The Futureheads, who are already showing up as playing on Pollstar. This was reported in a Pitchfork news article, like a week ago, but as of now is not yet showing up on Tapes 'n Tapes myspace page. I'm not a fan of the band, but posted a live show from SXSW they did a month or so ago that you can check out here.
Modest Mouse is also a name lots of people are tossing around. They play in Santa Barbara on August 6th, the day after Street Scene, so that doesn't sound illogical, but the band hasn't been up to anything in a while , has nothing to promote, and isn't on a big tour, so I don't know…
I also didn't realize that Street Scene is on the same weekend as Lollapalooza, the 3 day festival in Chicago, which has an impressive lineup, featuring just to name a few, The Raconteurs, The Shins, The Flaming Lips, Ween, Ryan Adams, Built to Spill, Eels, Gnarls Barkley… I guess it is unlikely that a band will play both of the shows in a weekend, which is bad when talking about the Raconteurs, who I hoped the Street Scene could snag, but good when it comes to the Chili Peppers, who have somehow managed to maintain the status of "Acceptable band to be the headliner at a huge festival" since the mid 90s despite the fact that their career paths really should have mirrored some of the best 80s hair metal bands and be playing at a state fair or a pig roast that weekend. If Lollapalooza means that they aren't an option as Street Scene headliner, I'm all for that.
Typing about Ween made me realize that I've probably never mentione Ween on here. Well The Blarney Stone and Waving My Dick In The Wind are both on my Itunes "50 Most Played List" and have been mix cd staples for a long time, so please check them out. Waving My Dick in the Wind is the rare cleverly titled song that lives up to how good its title is, and The Blarney Stone rivals the Pogues best Irish drinking songs in terms of it making you want to join in with the red nosed chap next to you when the chorus hits.
Both of these songs are on The Mollusk
Free Tickets to The Rogers Sisters and I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness At The Casbah
"Don't miss this show - I'm not! Trust me!" So says the faceless, voiceless "Info" section of the Casbah's concert schedule regarding the May 18th lineup of I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness and The Rogers Sisters. It's an oddly compelling little endorsement/command, kind of like the order to "Enjoy" printed on cans of Coca-Cola. But this is one disembodied voice whose commands you might be interested in listening to, at least for now. If he starts encouraging mailman killings and stuff of that ilk, I suggest you go elsewhere for your "info."
Pitchfork was dead on about the marketability of this logo
Both of these bands have been getting some press lately. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness isn't the kind of name you forget once you've heard it the first time, and though I hadn't heard about the Rogers Sisters until they bought an ad on the right side of this website, I think they've got a pretty cool sound. They've got a sort of Sonic Youth/Pixies male and female vocal contrast going on, and make music that is similar to both of those bands arty, raw kind of sound, but much closer to the Pixies rock end of the spectrum, as opposed to unpleasent experimentation. I think I support any band called The ____ Sisters that features prominent male contributions. As a bonus, evidently they put on a great live show.
Prominent Male Contributions indeed
Both bands new records have gotten good reviews from Pitchfork too (ILYBICD and Rogers Sisters), although I must point out that in the Rogers Sisters review, the writer shows his hand a bit too transparently. Nothing indicates a case of writer's block lock nitpicking that too many of their songs are sung about "you." Embarassing.
But anyways, you should check out both bands. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness has a myspace page with streams and the Rogers Sisters have a QT album stream. If you're the type who doesn't want to leave a web page without an MP3, check out You Undecided by the Sisters.
Finally, more unidentified faceless people have given me the power to bestow upon you a pair of tickets to giveaway to you guys for the show at the Casbah on Friday the 18th. So here's what I want you to do. Who have I been neglecting on this blog? Is there an artist, local or national that kicks so much ass that it's just unforgivable that I haven't written anything about them? Comment away and early next week I'll pick one at random and the free tickets will be yours.


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Making something for your home is one the most gratifying things you can do, and in this case, more is more. The pride of making something from scratch is multiplied the bigger the project gets. So we want to know: What's the biggest thing you personally have done for your home?
How big and industrious have you gotten with at-home DIY? Built a nightstand? Bed? How about an entire house?
Did you paint a floor? Or renovate and tile an entire ktichen?
We want to know about the process, too. Did you have all the right skills and tools before getting started? Or was your big DIY a total learning experience? Would you (or did you) do it again?
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Since we haven't done the bathrooms yet the biggest so far are all sort of equal:
Removing wallpaper from entire 1700sqft house, 2 coats primer, 2 coats paint. I never want to see wallpaper again.
Layout 3/4" hardwood flooring and 17" porcelain tile. 500 sqft of each. I never want to tile again, but damn if it doesn't look GOOD!
Baseboard install. Living/dining room, hallway and kitchen, almost the whole house. Board, cap and shoe, base plinths on all door casings. All primed pine, 2 coats paint. I love nail guns. Caulking and painting took longer than actually installing the wood!
I call these our 'biggest' because of the time and physical labor involved. Weeks and months were involved (with full time jobs), there also may have been some crying (not my finest moment).
Woops, LAYING hardwood, not 'layout.'
Rehabbing the plaster walls, ceilings, mouldings, baseboards, and trim of a pre-war apt. Sometimes, It meant I had to strip all the paint down to the original plaster. On and off (mostly on) this took the better part of 2 and and a half years. I must have thrown out a good 500 pounds or more of old paint, wood mouldings, and rumbling plaster and injested chemicals. plaster dust and lead in the process.
My biggest project was making a chandler. It was easy to put together based on instructions but still haven't mount it yet. Waiting for electrician.
I gutted most of the interior of my motorhome (the dining/living area and the bedroom) and rebuilt them to suit my needs (more storage and counter space in the kitchen, room for a proper lounging chair in the living room, and a functional office).
I did it on a shoestring budget, mostly using scraps. I made up for my serious lack of carpentry skills with trim and paint. I couldn't afford to pay anyone to do the work and I had no intention of reselling, so I did the best I could with the resources I had. I am very pleased with the end result!
The extra cabinets and counter in the kitchen really make the space more functional and my office (I work from home) rivals any I've seen in a larger residence.
In doing this project, I learned how to use an angle grinder and I earned a new scar from a table saw incident, so real blood, sweat, and tears went into making my 125 square feet into the perfect home for me.
And once all that was done, I started on the electrical upgrade. I paud a company to install a solar panel and charge controller, but I did the work on upgrading my charger/converter, putting in new batteries, and wiring in a battery monitor and whole house inverter.
I started with a clear vision of where I wanted to go and chipped away at the project little by little until it was done. I'm glad I did it, even if the end result isn't perfect, because I learned so much.
This summer, I'm starting work on a cabin and I look forward to doing all the work myself. So I guess that yes, if I could have a do over on the motorhome, I wouldn't change a thing!
Everything's a DIY in my house because my partner is a general contractor.
We've patched major damage in 100 year old floors, have completely redone one bathroom and we're about half finished with bathroom #2.
Next is new kitchen counters, a custom fit bookshelf, and kitchen backsplash.
I ripped out the mantel too on the fireplace and I'm constructing a new one, but this constant polar vortexing has put a damper on that this winter.
After we're done with all that I think we'll be finished.
My husband built the entire house, but he's a carpenter. I helped with the design, sanded and painted cabinets, grouted floors, helped install hardwood and lots of odd things. I don't build too many things from scratch, other than lamps, redoing furniture and the like. Fortunately we already have most of the tools we need, so it's mainly a matter of doing it. The house helped me to become more confident and try new things.
Do you mean as a couple? Or individually? My husband has some skills and will DIY and help out if I need him, but it's not really something he enjoys. I, on the other hand, really enjoy doing household projects. When he was out of town for three weeks I repainted the kitchen cabinets, added beadboard to the exposed ends and created kickplates for them -- funny how we never had them before; I redid the damaged woodwork around our fireplace; I removed the flooring from the upstairs and repainted all the walls and trim (which was oil based...ugh!); I removed the upstairs bathroom vanity and toilet to replace the flooring, repaired the wall where the old vanity had been, painted, installed a new floor, new trim, a new light fixture and re-installed the toilet. And redecorated the upstairs bedroom. I'm working on our master bathroom now. Hubby's in bed reading Game of Thrones. I have to work around him.
My home gym is probably the biggest project. A Power rack, seated calf raise, pulldown bars, etc etc. Takes over half of my garage.
Installed laminate flooring in my old apartment. That was a number of years ago, and if I knew then what I know now... I would have turned out a better finished product! It was fine though.
My partner (now, but not then) is an amazing carpenter, and we have some big DIY plans, when we buy our own place!
My husband and I built our house. We did just about everything ourselves except for excavation, concrete, and installing the gas lines. Framing, insulation, windows, siding, roofing, floors, drywall, stairs, kitchen, bath, electrical, plumbing...
We both had a good amount of carpentry experience going in, and we took a year or so to plan and learn some of the specific skills we needed (timber framing, tiling, energy efficiency...). I had a very flexible job at the time, mostly working overnights at a crisis shelter where I could usually sleep, and my husband took a year off, so we were both able to put 60-80 hours a week in to the house.
It was really, really hard! We argued about every last stupid detail and I basically cried myself to sleep every night for a year. But, we've been in our awesome house going on 8 years now, we have a ton of equity, plenty of confidence, and a great tool collection.
We had to finish up in a hurry (our previous rental was unexpectedly sold and we didn't want to move twice) so some things definitely got half-assed. But, we've been able to pick away at one or two remodeling projects a year. Last year I redid our mudroom with a larger closet, including hanging bifold doors and a sweet curved wall. This year I'm eyeing the kitchen...
biggest in terms of stress, my first house. gut job that took 3 years to build back out. after gutting it, we could stand in the basement and look up at the roof rafters. demo, framing, wiring, flooring [wood and tile], plumbing [water and gas], insulation, drywall, all the way to painting and cabinets. we paid for HVAC. that's it. partly the stress was the living in it and working on it nights and weekends. partly the stress was a poor 'partnership'.
biggest in terms of square footage, money and ongoing effort, my 4 unit apartment building which has received new roofing, electrics, plumbing, kitchens, bathrooms, fixtures, etc. the floors and plaster have been repaired, walls have been moved, bathroom and laundry facilities added. built in shelving and closet systems, plumbing service and sewer lines replaced, the dozen steps down to the sidewalk and retaining wall too. aside from the building being 110+ years old, tenants are much harder on wear and tear than owners. the average washer dryer lasts less than 4 years. disposals about 2. seriously. aside from little things like re-hanging doors - remortising door and jamb [closet doors with stripped jamb screws from people overloading the doors with storage systems] the next big project is excavating the back yard for parking. roughly 11 cubic yards of heavy clay soil, ripping out 1 retaining wall, re doing one, adding 2, and redoing the decks and extending the fire escape. woo hoo.
Wow, I am impressed with how much others have done - serious stuff! It is heartening to read - my husband and I love doing projects but sometimes it seems a little...scary.
Our biggest project so far was building our dining room table. It's a simple 8' long table. We used plans ("farm table") from www.ana-white.com and adjusted the dimensions, cuts, supplies, etc. based on what we wanted and the materials we were using. A local lumber yard had a selection of reclaimed wood and they cut and planed the wood for us (we used 2" thick white oak). Everything else we did ourselves. We couldn't be prouder of it and we love hosting guests for dinner. It's a weird thing to say, but it feels like our table has a soul. Or something. Does this make sense to anyone? :\ Haha.
I've been a homeowner 7 weeks now and I've painted every room and the kitchen cabinets, and built a kitchen island and dining table. The biggest as probably the island, especially since it's the first thing I've built in about 20 years.
I designed and acted as the contractor to finish our 1100 sq. ft. basement. I subcontracted the big things like, framing, electrical, plumbing, and drywall. However, I did all the paint and finishing (fixtures, etc) myself, including wiring the custom home theater.
I get a huge sense of accomplishment every time I go down there, plus everything is exactly where I want it to be, because I designed it that way!
My biggest totally from scratch DIY was probably removing a massive stone fireplace veneer and replacing it with built in book shelves. This project included demolition, drywall, electrical, woodworking and even laying new flooring in our huge garage conversion.
I am in love with the result so it was all worth it.
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I made a piece of furniture based on one I saw I liked, that I couldn't afford and was too small for my space. Sort of a buffet with 3 drawers and open cupboards underneath. I had no experience, no instructions, and I had to figure out each step as I went along. But it looks great, has not fallen apart, and you'd never know I made it.
Then, I did wainscotting in my dining room.
And at this very moment, I'm taking a break from building a 20 foot long storage unit that stretches the length of our closet, which has a slanted roof so none of the non-custom options would work.
Mostly I've done small things like repainting, replacing through wall a/c units, installing gutters. I also do a bit of woodworking and have built various furniture pieces. But I'm just about to step into the big time and build a detached workshop (for my woodworking), mostly by myself (I'll need help lifting up the walls). I've been planning the project for a couple of years and have taken classes in carpentry and building so I think I'm ready. But fingers crossed I don't get in over my head.
This isn't really home related, but I'm a fairly competent hobby woodworker. My biggest project was creating my wife and i's weeding centerpieces. I know it sounds lame, but I created 12 unique 2' tall vintage street lights. They were hand turned on a lathe, with 6 sided tapered lantern cases, frosted glass, unique finials all finished in satin black lacquer. At our wedding they had amber flickering led candles in them. We planned on giving them to a guest at each table, but they came out too good. It took me four months and towards the end I almost had to scramble to make a thirteenth do to RSVP coming close to our limit. Over the top flowers would he been cheaper after all of the time spent, but it was perfect for the setting, a conversation piece and one of a kind.
Oops. Wedding centerpieces that is.
Last post here's the link: http://alliedfront.com/?p=438
We recently bought a house and removed acoustic tiles to refinish our cedar plank ceiling. The results are amazing, but it was a lot of sanding, urethane, and time. Because we did it ourselves, it wasn't expensive, but at almost 900 sq feet, it was still a big job.
Zoe, you kick so much ass!
My biggist DIY is still happening! My husband and I are in the process of building our own home. With the exception of a few things like excavation, the foundation, the chimney, and the roof, we've done all the work ourselves in our spare time (nights and weekends since we both have full time jobs). It's been insanely hard but also extremely gratifying to see it all come together. We have a long way to go but we're pretty darn proud of what we've accomplished so far.
My husband and I are right in the middle of our biggest DIY project thus far. We are gutting and renovating our 1937 bungalow's original kitchen. Before you gasp in horror - we are keeping with the original vintage atheistic and adding some modern touches.. after 15+ years as a rental, the poor little bungalow really needed some TLC. We've owned it for the past 3 years, and thus far we've torn down the wall in between the kitchen & dining room, redone the plumbing (copper), rewired all the electricity, and created 2 pocket doors (that's the kitchen) by ourselves. Our biggest surprise is what a great team we make - we've designed all the custom cabinetry ourselves, as well as all the other design elements (tile, paint, cabinet style, etc) - and for the most part we always agree!! Our second major surprise was how talented my husband is (maybe that was just a surprise to me!!). I knew he had loads of DIY skills, but I had no idea the extent of his amazingness. He not only designed the custom cabinets for our kitchen, but is building them all himself. He also used our existing doors to create pocket doors for more space. He's turned into an online shopping expert, purchasing our tankless water heater & bosch cabinet front dishwasher for much less than they're worth because they had cosmetic damage!! We did not plan this project with him building all the cabinetry originally - it turned out that was just a much better price and he was up for the challenge. He has learned a lot since then and has REALLY enjoyed the project. Our biggest learning experience was probably calculating how long this project would take us (only working nights & weekends). We thought we would be done in January, and we're only a little more than half way done right now.. It will be worth it in the end, but right now living through it.. it is both exhausting and at times overwhelming.. sigh!!
I saw the first shelves pictured in this post last year (http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/5-impressive-ikea-hacks-188215) and said, "hey, I bet I can do that." It was a little ambitious given I live in Manhattan with no outdoor space, but I just planned a little extra carefully and found a lumber yard that would cut the wood I wanted to the exact size I wanted. Got curbside delivery and a handtruck to make it the rest of the way in and gave a simple coat of polyurethane to seal and bring out the grain. Then I water taxied over to Ikea Brooklyn for the brackets, spray painted them dark gray with a few orange ones thrown in for color, and started assembling. I went 6 shelves high (~4 ft) and 10 ft wide. Love them.
The original, non-AT link to the idea is http://www.stilsucht.de/04/2013/unalibreria/. Some really cool stuff!


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Ghost Dancer said...
Just a quick but important note about undercutting. Don't do it. No really, please don't undecut others on the AH. This is pretty obvious but most people seem to miss the point, but each time a seller undercuts the rest, the market price drops. I've seen the price on some gems drop by 50-100 G in a week, making them non-profitable and ultimately all the sellers lose out as result.
If there are only a few existing items of what you are selling there is no need to undercut, your item will likely be sold anyway. If there are lots of the item already on sale, see how quickly they are being purchased and consider selling something else instead.
Ironically, the greed that makes people undercut means they make less money in the long run, so please look at the big picture and think before you sell :)
I don't agree at all the undercutting ruins the market. As someone who has been working in the glyph market for awhile now undercutting is just part of the game. The thing is to not be obnoxious about how much you undercut by.
I've found on my server there are about 2 or 3 major players in the glyph market and a handful of smaller players. We undercut and get undercut numerous times each day (5 or 6 or even more) on hundeds of auction at a time. The trick to undercutting (and keeping a healthy market) is to undercut by a very small amount. In the glyph market I undercut by 73c. The thing you want is to be on the top of the list (lowest price). If I'm 73c lower then people will by mine.
If I keep the undercut amount small (and so do my competitors) then the market value drop happens at a much slower rate. all of us in the glyph market are in it to make money and it's in out best interest to keep the prices at a higher (but reasonable) level all around.
That said even in the "regular" market I undercut by only 1s. No reason to go higher than that. The normal person searching the auction house only cares which item it at the top (cheapest) not how much cheaper it is.
Ghost Dancer said...
That certainly helps reduce the problem.
What I did not make clear in my first post is that I was referring to the buyout price not the bid price, since most sales tend to come from buyouts. Lowering the bid price will put you top of the list, but as you say you only need do this by a small amount.
The problem arises when people undercut the buyout prices - like I said, I've seen market prices plummet because of this.
Lars Petersson said...
On that note, I don't particularly care if my competition don't sell anything because I undercut them, what I care about is whether I sell my goods.
If I don't undercut, then I don't sell. The solution? Undercut my competitors. (http://www.wow.com/2010/03/17/the-art-of-pricing/)
Or to put it another way, what is more profitable?:
1) To put something on the AH, not selling it and having wasted the AH fee
2) Put something on the AH, undercut your competition adn sell it for a profit.
I'm reasonably certain that it's 2).
In some rare cases you can get away with overcutting (http://www.wow.com/2010/03/22/time-is-money-overcutting-in-times-of-scarcity/) but as a geenral rule, that's not a way to make money.
I am active both in the large and active markets, such as glyphs, and the slightly more highend craftables, ilvl 245 items) and I can promise you that if I didn't undercut, I wouldn't have been able to afford epic flying on every toon + Cold weather flying + BoE epics the moment they hit 80...
Ghost Dancer said...
*sigh* You have missed the point.
I saved up 16K for the Tundra Mammoth in just a few weeks. Most of the money came from selling gems and I didn't undercut anyone (on buyout prices). However, I did make less money toward the end as market prices dropped BECAUSE people were undercutting.
Not caring about your competitors means that you are doing yourself out of money as I explained in my previous posts. The only time you won't sell something is if the AH is flooded with that particular item, in which case sell something else. The more people that undercut, the quicker the prices drop.
I used to sell the epic rings & neck items (way back when) but within a month or so the price dropped from around 2k to 1k - all the sellers lost out here because some people are greedy, there was no need to undercut as the market was not exactly flooded with them at the time.
My point is that you will make more money at a quickler rate by not undercutting the buyout price. I've done it, it works.
@Ghost Dancer
You seem to think there is a right and wrong price that you know and others are screwing up. You've got it completely backwards. No one is ruining the market. They're just making a profit by moving their goods. Maybe they could maximize their profits better, but so could you. Either take advantage of them or find a more efficient way to make gold. You don't have any special right to make gold at the AH without facing competition.
Ghost Dancer said...
You have made a lot of assumptions about me & what I said, and all of them are wrong :-p
Perhaps my meaning was not clear but I was making a suggestion, based on my experience, that can help everyone to make more money. I never set the price of anything, I just sell things for the SAME price as everyone else.
Maybe some people have had different experiences, but on my realm at least, everything I have said holds true.
You'll have to forgive us, then, because you sound an awful lot like the folk who come around to complain that their personal fiefdom in the marketplace is DOOMED because Basil mentioned it.
The fact is that undercutting can make the difference between making a sale or having to relist later. It's also true that more people are likely to buy if the price is lower. And that while lower prices for finished goods makes life a little more difficult for the people providing them, their customers rejoice. Finally, if the undercutting bugs you that much, and costs you that much, and you think the market will support a higher price... why aren't you scooping up the bargains yourself and relisting them at the correct price? Seems like easy money.
Ghost Dancer said...
Nope, that was not my intent. I have made a lot of money on the AH (without undercutting), and when prices drop too much due to other sellers, I just sell something else instead. In fact I have made enough money for everything I want and more, so I don't bother selling anythign anymore as there is simply no need for me to do so.
At the end of the day people will do what they do, I was just offering a suggestion, based on experience, for a way to increase profit for all concerned.
@Ghost Dancer:
The Law of Supply and Demand states that, in any given market, the maximum revenue is to be found by balancing the price such that Supply is as close as possible to Demand. If you list your items too high, you'll make more money per sale, but less sales overall, and thus lose money. If you list your items too low, then you will make more sales overall, but won't make enough overall to meet the demand. The key is to map out your demand curve and supply curve, find the point where they meet, and establish your price there. This is how economics works, whether you're talking about real markets or in-game markets.
How can we accomplish this? Market experimentation. If you list to begin with at your maximum price without even examining current prices, you may find yourself way above market prices, and you're out your listing fee when nobody buys it. If you sell at your minimum price without examining current prices, then you'll screw yourself out of money you may have made. The easiest route to getting a decent price is to examine current market prices, then undercut by a slight amount. Over time, you'll find that you can adjust a little bit to determine at what price people will generally buy - ramp up the price a little at a time until you miss a sale, then you'll know the range people are looking for.
As far as extreme undercutting goes, it's a simple matter to buy up all the low-priced auctions and essentially reset the market by listing it all yourself for a "proper" price.
logicalfundy said...
I hate to say this - but most people just don't care. You're living in a world where most people are not interested in treating this like an economics simulation, and only really go to the AH to sell items they don't want.
Especially on a high population server like the one I'm on - there's really no controlling the price. Most people who are selling are not interested in doing a lot of work to make a profit.
. . . and sometimes volume IS more important than price. A lot of real life industries thrive on mass production, which allows you to sell huge volumes - at a low price!
It's not a bad thing to get more profit by volume rather than by individual profit margin.
In fact, I would argue that a lot of items in the AH will actually get you *more* profit from volume sales rather than from high prices. A lot of profession based items are easy to turn into large volume businesses.
If you price things TOO high, you risk having your customers move towards making the items themselves, rather than buying at the AH. Then you're left with items you'll never sell because customers will never buy them.
You have to look at supply AND demand - you can't just look at one and ignore the other. Demand is elastic in this game - it can change, and change easily.


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