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Re:A scalper who used bots to buy millions of tickets, now w... by phlowbieuq on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @01:12PM (#13645650)
> drinking Rhinegeist.

fistbump for a fellow Cincinnatian. I feel the exact same way about football (especially the Bengals). I can buy 10 cases of beer for what it would cost me to freeze my ass off at the stadium, and they are going to bungle it anyway. =D

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Re:A scalper who used bots to buy millions of tickets, now w... by Pigo on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @08:38AM (#13651867)
Awesome, I was genuinely curious if anyone would recognize the beer. I've been seeing it further and further away from Cincy.
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Re:A scalper who used bots to buy millions of tickets, now w... by phlowbieuq on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @11:00AM (#13652904)
Ya their growth in reach has been amazing. Rhinegeist's biggest innovation that allowed them to explosively scale was actually around distribution. I've heard that it pissed a lot of other distributors off, who then lobbied the state org in KY and closed the loophole that they discovered.

Are you on the Cincinnati Tech slack channel? [0] Based on your comment history, I'm curious if I've run into you at a tech meetup at some point.

[0] http://cincytech.herokuapp.com/

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Re:A scalper who used bots to buy millions of tickets, now w... by Pigo on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @01:06PM (#13653981)
Wow, I guess I'm really out of the loop on what they were up to. I've just become a big fan of Cougar, and being able to find it everywhere. No, I haven't been, but I will be now. Thanks for the heads up.
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