{"id":700,"date":"2006-02-15T10:10:50","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T18:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/thats_america-2.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T12:25:50","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T17:25:50","slug":"thats_america_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/thats_america_1.html","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s America!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, back in the real world of hard-to-get tables at actual restaurants, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/391399p-332000c.html\">entrepreneurs sold Valentine&#8217;s Day reservations on eBay<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A few entrepreneurs grabbed up impossible-to-get seatings at some of the nation&#8217;s top restaurants for Feb. 14, then sat back and watched the bids trickle in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I figured lazy guys willing to spend money on their girlfriends were a perfect target group,&#8221; said Jonathan Heines, 26, of Manhattan. &#8220;If a guy is going to spend over $200 on dinner and gifts, what&#8217;s an extra $10 to $30 to get the reservation you really want?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Heines said he set up a spreadsheet the week of Jan. 14 and snagged about 20 Valentine&#8217;s Day reservations across New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>He then listed the rare commodities on craigslist.org with a link to his eBay account.<\/p>\n<p>His reservation for Spice Market, which cost him zilch to make and 80 cents to list, garnered the highest price: $18.50.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was great,&#8221; said the buyer of the 10 p.m. Spice Market table. &#8220;I&#8217;ve greased concierges for more than that on less competitive nights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Heines made about $120 selling eight of his 20 reservations.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, back in the real world of hard-to-get tables at actual restaurants, entrepreneurs sold Valentine&#8217;s Day reservations on eBay: A few entrepreneurs grabbed up impossible-to-get seatings at some of the nation&#8217;s top restaurants for Feb. 14, then sat back and watched the bids trickle in. &#8220;I figured lazy guys willing to spend money on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class_war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}