I’m not sure you understand how profits are calculated.
it’s total sales - total costs = profits
Even if you sell an individual shirt for less than cost, you are still contributing to the overall profit of the alternative is $0.
Thankfully, I don't use the made up accounting they try to teach you at Princeton.
That's not how I'm calculating it. I'm calculating the profit/loss of each shirt.
Each shirt cost like $13.92 to make. I'll count up every shirt that sold for more than that and send the "profit" on those shirts to Shelby. Everything that sold for less than that or was free (lots of SC members chose it) will be viewed as a marketing expense.
I thought, "It's crass to make the shirt and profit off of it. Let's at least use that hate to help her defense fund." I mean I don't get why anyone who is for a strong anti-doping rules would be opposed to people raising strong defenses. If the system can stand up to a strong defense, then we have more faith in the system.
tbf the issue is the selection of who's defense fund you are funding.
For example, by this logic, I would also expect you would send ad revenue to those named in the "does this person dope" poll, or any number of other athletes who are popped and discussed on these boards for that matter.
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For real. Why the helll is this site choosing to support her at all? Eff your "people you really respect" who support her, rojo. Grow a pair and take the (scientifically and statistically proven) correct side.
LRC (especially rojo) are HUGE Schumacher fans, hence the support of Shelby's defense. They wouldn't be aiding Galen Rupp's defense fund were he to be in a similar situation.
Aren't her appeals over anyway? What's there to contribute to anymore?
you call the shirt the Burrito Track Club and then send the money to Shelby? Isn't that rude. You should grow up.
Yes it's rude. I have a divided audience. This is like politics. There is a huge divide. It came clear to me that there are A LOT of shelby haters and a lot of fans who are tired of excuses of "I kissed my drug addict boyfriend, I downed a six pack and had sex with my wife 8 times, etc."
Plus the BTC name was the perfect match.
So I thought, "A shirt needs to be made." But if I'd made the shirt at profit, I would have been totally crucified. A lot of people I know and respect really believe she's innocent (I also have people i respect who thinks she guilty).
I thought, "It's crass to make the shirt and profit off of it. Let's at least use that hate to help her defense fund." I mean I don't get why anyone who is for a strong anti-doping rules would be opposed to people raising strong defenses. If the system can stand up to a strong defense, then we have more faith in the system.
No one would have "crucified you" - the vast majority of people wouldn't care. Plus, if you were that worried, you could have just priced the shirt at cost.
People are (rightfully) criticizing you for your hypocrisy on the whole saga. You have continually run defense for Shelby and Jerry despite the overwhelming evidence against her and only for her to ADMIT later Shelby didn't even believe their own story. Then you literally started raising money for her, despite her and Jerry's deceptiveness, only then to try to have it "both ways" by making the shirt that this board uses to slam BTC for their BS.
You've also gone out of your way to defend "your boy" Jerry (your words, as said on your podcast) despite salting the earth and being less than truthful (at best) during their infamous press conference and have done little or nothing to follow up with this to Jerry after he went into hiding. I mean, it's been almost TWO YEARS since the press conference and we've had no statement from him in the aftermath. His silence is unacceptable considering how adamant and antagonistic he was during the presser, yet you treat him with kid gloves.
This is why people are "crucifying" you for. You've slammed others for less, yet give Shelby and "your boy" as pass and have even gone so far as to enable them. It's pathetic, intellectually inconsistent, and puts into question whether you and your team are actually for clean sport.
funny how this thread is getting objectively more volume than any other thread on the site at the moment, and, yet, it's not trending on the top 10 threads somehow.
I’m not sure you understand how profits are calculated.
it’s total sales - total costs = profits
Even if you sell an individual shirt for less than cost, you are still contributing to the overall profit of the alternative is $0.
Thankfully, I don't use the made up accounting they try to teach you at Princeton.
That's not how I'm calculating it. I'm calculating the profit/loss of each shirt.
Each shirt cost like $13.92 to make. I'll count up every shirt that sold for more than that and send the "profit" on those shirts to Shelby. Everything that sold for less than that or was free (lots of SC members chose it) will be viewed as a marketing expense.
In other words you are using the accounting the rest of us use. Does seem outside the box to sell a shirt making fun of someone's downfall, to send profits to that person? Deep.
1. Sending the profits from these shirts to a known doper, without disclosing that to your website patrons
2. Supporting a known doper!!!
How many times will you post polls for people to vote on “who do you think is clean” and advocate for a clean sport - but then send money to SH who is CONVICTED after a fair trial? I knew this site was trash but this is a new low. Never will buy anything from here
1. Sending the profits from these shirts to a known doper, without disclosing that to your website patrons
2. Supporting a known doper!!!
How many times will you post polls for people to vote on “who do you think is clean” and advocate for a clean sport - but then send money to SH who is CONVICTED after a fair trial? I knew this site was trash but this is a new low. Never will buy anything from here
The one and only thing keeping this site from widespread public scrutiny, is the lack of people who care about the sport. Ironically if running became more popular, the eyeballs would be the downfall of LRC.
Not only was this a stupid idea, it was also out of character.
are these the same brojos that were calling out lance in 2003 when he was king of the universe? The same ones who shone the light on Regina?
What happened to that letsrun? What happened to every running journo?
call me naive but I never would have guessed that Shelby’s whiteness, prettyness, and American pie-ness was this powerful. Pull up message boards from just after the press conference. Her excuse was such an obvious lie that most measageboarders didn’t need the cas summary or report to know right away. How come journalists believed it and still believe it?
and don’t give me that fair defense bs. Shelby had no defense that’s the whole point. Still doesn’t.
Also I'm going to call it: since there are valid criticisms, rojo will come back and post something defensive (probably won't make logical sense) and stubbornly dig his heels in.
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