The beer economy

aka I link for beer

Highly obser­v­ant reg­u­lar read­ers might of notice a new cat­egory of links in the homepage side­bar entitled for I link for beer. The new cat­egory is the res­ults of fel­low port80 mem­ber Myles Eftos aka Mad­pi­lot Pro­duc­tions bold state­ment that if enough people linked to his time track­ing web applic­a­tion 88 Miles with the term Simple Time Track­ing he would buy beers at the next port80 meeting.

A few years ago, I use to answer Con­sumer Protection’s gen­eral advice line. I received a call from a gent who was hav­ing prob­lems with the res­tor­a­tion of his clas­sic car, the work was going slowly and he had prob­lems com­mu­nic­at­ing with the work­shop owner and mech­an­ics. I sug­ges­ted that from my exper­i­ence in get­ting a clas­sic motor­cycle restored, you found a lot more about what was hap­pen­ing and would get far bet­ter treat­ment if you turned up on a Firday after­noon with a car­ton of cold beer and had a couple of beers with the people doing the work on his car. He replied “Why didn’t I think of that, I am the man­ager of a liquor store” He then thanked me and hung up. A couple of weeks later, I got mes­sage from him, thank­ing me for the advice and telling me that the res­tor­a­tion was pro­ceed­ing well. In other words, a little amber liquid smooths the path.

What is this about port80 mem­bers and beer? All three Aus­tralian beer review sites, brew.com.au, beerguide.com.au and tastebeer.com.au are run by port80 members.

tagged beer eco­nomy

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