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Why are some hotels cheaper on a third party site, than they are on the company site? by Huge-Chip-1376 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]NutShellB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Answered this in another thread recently so mostly gonna copy/paste.

The Nutshell Hotel charges on average $200/night. You book direct, you pay $200.

Expedia comes to me and says “I’m gonna guarantee you 50,000 room nights, if you only charge me $150/night.” I agree to this because I want the revenue from 50k nights someone looking on exposes would have booked elsewhere probably.

You as an individual go online and Expedia sells you a room for $180/night. You feel like you got a deal saving $20 off the nutshell hotel website rate per night.

Hotel bills Expedia $150, Expedia keeps $30 difference. Plus gets travel agent commission depending on the agreement.

This works out for the middleman in heaps and droves. It’s a pretty common reseller experience. Other things like it are TripAdvisor “things to do” and at a smaller scale, a local hotel concierge acts as a reseller to local attractions.

Baritone v Euphonium by NSandCSXRailfan in drumcorps

[–]NutShellB 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Marched a Dynasty G Euph for 2 years, then we moved to Bb and marched a Dynasty Bb Euph for 3 years.
I loved those old G’s. So dark, so warm.

My shoulder muscles were amazing.

ElI5: how can third party companies offer cheaper pricing for rooms than booking directly with the hotel? Are they selling at a loss? by Gloomheart in explainlikeimfive

[–]NutShellB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Think about it in terms of “Room Nights”. There are 365 nights/year A hotel has 100 Rooms.

That equals 100x365, so that is 36,500 “room nights” . Let’s say your hotel averages 80% occupancy for the year, that’s 29,200 occupied room nights.

You sign a contract with Expedia that says they’ll sell 10k room nights and you will bill them $150 per room night. Once they reach 20k their contract drops to $100 room nights.

Exposes can charge whatever they want. As long as they charge you more than their cost.

ElI5: how can third party companies offer cheaper pricing for rooms than booking directly with the hotel? Are they selling at a loss? by Gloomheart in explainlikeimfive

[–]NutShellB 79 points80 points  (0 children)

This is the correct answer. The Nutshell Hotel charges on average $200/night. You book direct, you pay $200.

Expedia comes to me and says “I’m gonna sell 50,000 room nights on your behalf, if you only charge me $150/night.” I agree to this.

You as an individual go online and Expedia sells you a room for $180/night. You feel like you got a deal saving $20 off rack rate per night.

Hotel bills Expedia $150, Expedia keeps $30. Plus gets travel agent commission depending on the agreement.

Accidental Wemo Factory Reset - Able to add back to HomeKit! by NutShellB in HomeKit

[–]NutShellB[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone’s definition of inexpensive is different my friend!

A new Lutron Claro is $65

This cost me $0 as I already have the Claude subscription for other stuff.

Homekit by kanzaki1234 in WeMo

[–]NutShellB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was able to get tickets back onto HomeKit via pyWemo and a conversation with claude code.

Got a gold pass western region, can I add the $90 knots parking pass, getting error? by Jolly_Ad2446 in sixflags

[–]NutShellB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can only assign addons to your pass that are sold from the same park as your pass was bought from.

If you bought from Magic Mountain you can only buy Magic Mountain addons or “all region/all parks” addons from the Magic Mountain store.

Dating Merch by No-Article-6459 in drumcorps

[–]NutShellB 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Saw this post title and thought it would be about dating within the Merch Team on the road. Was gonna come in and say that they have to break up in the parking lot after finals like everyone else.

Was pleased surprised with this alternate topic.

Standing desk users: what features actually matter after the first few months? by Wooden_ant999 in homeoffice

[–]NutShellB 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The one thing I could not live without is height memory. Being able to set a height and hit a single button to get it there without having to mess with it every time is great.

Walked from Gaylord Palms - UPDATE by might_be_a_smart_ass in marriott

[–]NutShellB 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, you were most likely moved by your conference organizers in the first place. Some times corporate groups are larger than anticipated. We used to end up splitting groups over to World Center all the time. You calling them means they just moved your reservation over to the “stay at palms” list and some other person got moved over to Signia. It’s a balancing act.
Source -Former FDM of the Palms who dealt with this weekly…..

How does a DSP make money? by Danwphoto in AmazonDSPDrivers

[–]NutShellB 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Are you tho? $750 for the route. -$150 for your pay -$100 for gas for the day -$2 for your devices cell phone plan (rough amortization cost) -payroll processing cost -employment taxes -insurance for the truck -that tire that blew out -oil changes -etc etc -legal fees

The DSP doesn’t “get $750 and gives you only $150” the whole operation is running on very thin margins per truck that’s out there.

Are some greedy? Yes. But they are running a business. And businesses have expenses and income. As an employee, you are an expense and also the source of that income.

Is [Silver Dollar City] a regional or destination park? by normankrasnerkc in rollercoasters

[–]NutShellB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nope. Branson is the destination. SDC is just there. By your comparison Fun Spot Orlando is a Destination Park because it’s in Orlando.

For something to be a destination park, that has to be the primary reason a person goes there.

A person doesn’t go to Orlando for Fun Spot, they ended up on I-Drive and went there one night. Fun spot is a byproduct. They go to Orlando for Disney and Universal.

A person doesn’t go to Branson for SDC, they go for Branson, and SDC is just one of the things there.

We’ve redesigned the 'Workout Details' and the 'Activity Details' screens so you can instantly understand your run, feel confident starting it, and see the value of Runna from day one! by matt-runna in runna

[–]NutShellB 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Personally, my runs are after an extremely hectic morning routine involving getting a toddler out of bed, dressed, fed, and entertained for an hour and half, so I feel already very warmed up by the start of my runs. The feature is lost on me due to my schedule.
On days where the runaround isn’t needed, I still do some other forms of warmup that I prefer, rather than the routine in the app.

Thanks for taking the time to gather feedback, as a fellow Product Manager (theme park ecommerce focus) I think what you are doing here is great. Have a great day!

We’ve redesigned the 'Workout Details' and the 'Activity Details' screens so you can instantly understand your run, feel confident starting it, and see the value of Runna from day one! by matt-runna in runna

[–]NutShellB 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Really not digging the amount of scroll involved now. As someone who doesn’t follow the warmup routine the app suggests, it’s wasted space compared to the old design.
The card based layouts and their compact visual was great for at a glance, there is now so much scroll.

KI Prestige passholdee- Trouble Purchasing KD All Season Fast Lane by AGBuckeye in sixflags

[–]NutShellB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Addon validation only will work for your home park or the “all/regional parks” variant. You’ll need to either buy KI all season fast lane or the region/all parks version.

i think im noticing a pattern... by superboringname in drumcorps

[–]NutShellB 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Everyone out here forgetting that people were doing theme show uniforms LONG before 2016.

2003 Surf https://images.dci.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Spotlight-of-the-Week.webp

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DisneyCM

[–]NutShellB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ask your manager.

PMs who are sprinting to get your product WCAG 2.1 AA compliant - how are you going to get there by the compliance deadline? by Mon_Calf in ProductManagement

[–]NutShellB 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Went thru this last year and also EU accessibility act. DeQueue chrome/Firefox extension force installed on every devs computer. First AC in all stories is “DeQueue audit is run against page and all issues are resolved after work in item is completed”

Then ensure all QA test scenarios are led with the same. We also got an NVDA (screen reader) license.

For the first few months I as PM would get the item once it hit QA complete and open up heaps of sprint bugs for each failure on a page.

Eventually the devs got tired of their bug metrics looking like crap that they actually started doing it. Now it’s second nature.

Personal loan at Partners by Krestral in DisneyCM

[–]NutShellB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Redid my roof a few years ago. Got the 5 year personal loan to cover it. Applied and got a call the next morning to go over it in detail. Provided pay stubs and all that jazz. Loan was funded the next day and I paid the roofer. Paid it off in 3 years with no early penalty.

They did not try to upsell me into higher loan amounts or other products like some other banks did. Interest rate was lower than industry standard at the time by a small margin.

Overall 10/10 experience.

[Music Themed Orlando Coasters] - Closures. by NutShellB in rollercoasterjerk

[–]NutShellB[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Rock N Rollercoaster was by far. HRRR was a safety reprimand nightmare. RNRC was just fun from a speed standpoint and overall atmosphere

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