#29 – Lay, Lie, or Laine?

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Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

don't know for sure, but googling "foam brick cash grab" and picking the link that looked most relevant off the first page of results gave me this post from last year.

http://www.voy.com/158430/21404.html

among other things (you'll have to scroll through the post if you want to read the full details but i tried to provide a reasonable summary of potentially relevant info):

a--the "foam brick" thing definitely was a cash grab. he deletes comments that don't contain profanity/other offensive language but *do* contain criticism, including a subscriber comment made when he first floated the idea of the $50 brick. That subscriber works at a non-profit and knows firsthand that the brick idea is a no-no for a for-profit company.

it's fine as a *non-profit* thing because if a legit by IRS standards charity/non-profit sells $50 foam bricks as a fund-raiser, people can claim most of that as a charitable contribution on their taxes if they're itemizing deductions and the charity provides them with whatever paperwork may be necessary. (if you're *getting* something for making a donation, normally you can only deduct the difference between your donation and the theoretical fair market value of that something. so if the fair market value of the foam brick is $5, this would probably be a $45 deduction, not a $50 one. or at least that's how they explained it to me in tax preparer training.)

with a for-profit set-up, you're essentially paying $50 for merch worth about $5 tops *and* can't claim a deduction so cash grab is a pretty accurate description imo.

b--the first commenter claims dk's site is operating very much on a month-to-month basis and that travel expenses for last year's SCF were *definitely* a strain on the operating budget.

c--dk expanded more quickly than he should have and is in financial trouble partly because of that.

d--he's arguably made poor personnel decisions (at least last year he apparently had both a multimedia director and a social media person who may or may not have been getting paid and i assume was taylor haase of tumblr notoriety, but the site doesn't really have enough video to need a full-time multimedia person and it sounds like their twitter could probably have been bundled into somebody else's job duties as well.)

e--somebody else said "Oh, and also........the rumors that he lets people go via text message is 100% TRUE."

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

That comment thread was a great read for schadenfreude.