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Originally Posted by hobo13 (Post 22844367)

My guess is that he considered paying for the Residences ticket himself. He could write it off as a business expense. And it would definitely generate a lot of attention for his brand. But then it would appear that if he could just blow $20k, it would lead to the inevitable discussion and criticism of just how much he makes. (Or the accusations that his parents self-fund.... a claim I find absurd.)

And if he didn't pull the trigger quickly, somebody else would. And in this game, there's no value in being #2.

So he was between a rock (fund it himself), a hard place (Kickstart it), and a gaping hole on his A380 checklist!

He wasn't the first to review any of the A380 first class cabins he's been on. Not sure why it would matter that he wasn't the first one of review Etihad's.

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Originally Posted by cruisr (Post 22844587)

Don't know how it is now but he did previously state that his parents had bank rolled his travels.

Link?

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Originally Posted by lazard (Post 22844605)

He wasn't the first to review any of the A380 first class cabins he's been on. Not sure why it would matter that he wasn't the first one of review Etihad's.

My point was more about not wanting to be the second to do a Kickstarter campaign to fund it. I can only imagine there's a few bloggers out there would have gone for it.

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Originally Posted by hobo13 (Post 22844654)

My point was more about not wanting to be the second to do a Kickstarter campaign to fund it. I can only imagine there's a few bloggers out there would have gone for it.

Kickstarter has been around for 5 years. If a blogger was gonna do it, they would have done it already. Plus, I would think other bloggers would value their dignity more.

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Originally Posted by lazard (Post 22844828)

Kickstarter has been around for 5 years. If a blogger was gonna do it, they would have done it already. Plus, I would think other bloggers would value their dignity more.

My point exactly in starting this thread.

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Originally Posted by hobo13 (Post 22844645)

Link?

He said it at an FTU years ago.

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Originally Posted by lazard (Post 22844828)

Kickstarter has been around for 5 years. If a blogger was gonna do it, they would have done it already. Plus, I would think other bloggers would value their dignity more.

I actually think quite a few others have similarly low dignity valuation levels:p they just hadn't thought of it yet!

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Originally Posted by cruisr (Post 22846264)

He said it at an FTU years ago.

I remember him making some vague comments once along those lines. For what it's worth, I think the only discussion on his blog was this from last year, couple of years after he graduated college I believe:

http://boardingarea.com/onemileatati...-the-airlines/

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...One such assumption is that I’m a trust fund baby and my family pays for all my travel. I don’t think it’s fair to my family to bring their financial situation into this, but let me simply say that assumption couldn’t be further from the truth. While I’m fortunate to have parents that are extremely supportive of my job/hobby, they’ve never been in a situation to fly me around the world in first class, and certainly don’t fund my travels. I’ve been supporting myself since I was 18, was fortunate not to have to pay a dime to attend college (which, in retrospect, is probably what I valued the entire experience at), and do probably spend a disproportionate amount of my income on travel...