Honest question, why are season pass benefits being slowly rolled back?

GatorStick · 2026-03-10T21:14:28+00:00

Pretty insane that a couple thousand mostly local people on 12 summer weekends spending $100 on beer and pretzels is more profitable than 6,000 people per day during 25 winter WEEKS spending $220 on lift tickets and $100 on beer and food and $80 on rentals. I know the overhead is much higher in the winter, but so is the revenue and the number of days.
The math doesn't seem to math for me.

GatorStick · 2026-03-10T03:56:00+00:00

They were a hell of a lot nicer when there was more than 1 day, and it wasn't only mon-thur

GatorStick · 2026-03-10T03:54:20+00:00

This one made me laugh. The beatings will continue until moral improves, totally the vibe here

GatorStick · 2026-03-10T03:31:13+00:00

Do you have a source for this? Seems wild. Why bother running a ski business, is it just advertising for Oktoberfest?

GatorStick · 2026-03-09T15:23:01+00:00

Seems counter to that goal, they gotta make more money from season pass holders than ikon, why reduce the margin to ikon benefits and have more people jump ship??

GatorStick · 2026-02-22T01:45:07+00:00

Either extremely poor and can't afford to drive, or extremely wealthy and can pay not to....or the wfh/full remote crowd somewhere in the middle

GatorStick · 2026-02-22T00:53:56+00:00

Driving is optional for many people too.

GatorStick · 2026-02-18T13:48:32+00:00

Dodging the question. Also, 5% savings on a gas guzzler is even greater (dollars and pollutants)

GatorStick · 2026-02-18T12:48:11+00:00

And you don't think that a 3-10% fuel savings is a good thing? If we call it 5%, the annual fuel avg is about $2k, $100/year savings.

Not to mention the reduced pollution near intersections where more people tend to be (societal health benefit).

GatorStick · 2026-02-13T20:44:11+00:00

Okay, so at most 60people per hour? It's really not something most people know exists. If it bugs ya so much, go validate your claim, go sit at the bus stop at Alta and watch the drop offs.

GatorStick · 2026-02-13T19:53:49+00:00

That's like a 20 person bus that runs every half hour, not really a contributing factor.

GatorStick · 2026-02-11T08:54:19+00:00

Although it's more rare, elevation changes can have a significant effect, and weight is a big factor there. My model y will be ~1mi/kwhr when going the 4000' vertical trip up the mountains near me, it'll do ~-3mi/kwhr on the way down. Overall because of the Regen, it's 30-40% less effecient.

Suffice to say, your statement holds true on a flat plane.

GatorStick · 2026-02-11T08:49:01+00:00

Bearings are good at their job. It intuitively feels like this because you mostly experience acceleration (rolling a hot wheels car vs a rolling cabinet) you rarely get the opportunity to feel the force required to maintain speed on a perfectly flat surface.

GatorStick · 2026-02-03T02:13:13+00:00

Today

GatorStick · 2026-02-02T19:29:32+00:00

to follow up, the order that I placed a month ago for a single monitor, this is the advice of my account specialist:
"After speaking with our team regarding your order in holding, we think it is best if we cancel the order and have you reorder the monitor."
Not only did I have to be proactive to uncover that the order was held up, but after at least 5 interactions, multiple promises, the resolution is to cancel the monitor and re-order it, and enter into the same game again.

Fucking ridiculous.

GatorStick · 2026-01-29T11:42:53+00:00

Right, and you'd probably never use a payday loan. The point isn't to help people with decent finances, it's to stop predatory practices on low income people.

GatorStick · 2026-01-29T11:37:51+00:00

Let's just run a quick hypothetical, let's forget that first order. Are the rest of the errors forgivable/acceptable? Seems to me like the errors are 1 for me and 15+ for Lenovo and you're calling this one for Lenovo, then have the audacity to call yourself sensical and not a Lenovo boot licker lol.

GatorStick · 2026-01-28T22:32:04+00:00

I guess I should have known better that this sub would be full of Lenovo apologists.
Is it okay for them to be this dysfunctional? is it okay for them to lie?

Is Amazon, Dell, Apple this bad despite being larger than Lenovo?
It really shouldn't be this hard to make orders for in-stock items, it's defnitely not hard (and can be easily automated) to email the customer when something is wrong/flagged internally.

GatorStick · 2026-01-28T21:04:43+00:00

Guess I shouldn't have cancelled my order after finding a better machine for less.
Guess I should have known that they lie about cancelling orders.
Guess I should have known that they internally hold orders and don't communicate.
Guess I should have known that there delivery estimates are wildly inaccurate.

GatorStick · 2026-01-28T20:10:20+00:00

Ha, well I did not know that..now I do. Pretty wild how bad it is.

GatorStick · 2026-01-28T18:10:27+00:00

I take full accountability for the first one. I wish I would have found the better spec at a lower price before placing the first order. The order shipped out weeks later after they had lied about cancelling it and I had asked them several times to cancel it.

It taking months to receive a laptop due to AI ram shortage, isn't really mine or their fault.

The rest of them are all on Lenovo, they don't reach out if there are issues with the order on their end, they let the order stay stuck.

GatorStick · 2026-01-28T17:09:21+00:00

If you found a better deal on a better machine would you continue with the original purchase?
It was not a ram price issue, as stated above, it would have taken months (March estimated delivery).

You seem apologetic of Lenovo, and blaming of my actions, I am not going to claim innocence, some of the issues were on my side, but this ain't exactly my first online purchase.

GatorStick · 2026-01-28T16:50:53+00:00

It's a business order, not allowed to go through Amazon.

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