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This post will be the most difficult one your editor has had to write. We type these words as we head to the Golden Gate Bridge, ready to jump over the railing, prepared to take the final plunge. Why? Because we don't want to live in a world without MyOpenBar.com. See, MyOpenBar, the AWESOME site that informs readers on any and all open-bar/cheap-booze events, will cease operations in Los Angeles and San Francisco. We talked to MyOpenBar, who we hoped would inform us that this was some sort of cruel joke. No suck luck. According MyOpenBar, "Yes, we're closing both LA and SF websites due to our inability to monetize those branches in all this time. We simply can no longer sustain them through our work here in New York alone. Unfortunate, yes, but hey, life goes on." Their New York City and Chicago site, however, will remain open for business.
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there's a tear in my beer....
They couldn't monetize free booze? God, they're more useless than twitter...
The irony of a service trying to monetize customers that are too cheap to buy their own booze... It hurts.
The Onion print edition and MyOpenBar on the same day? Say it ain't so.
I blame the swine.
I would have frequented their site if I had ever heard of them.
this makes baby jesus cry.
I loved that site! They didn't try to sell it?
They aren't going out of business, just closing the SF branch.
NOOOOO!!!!
Someone's gotta keep it going!
Sad to see them go, soon to open?:
Either sfmyopenbar.com or myopenbarsf.com
Someone had to do it, so we are :)
Never fear, a cheap/free drink list will be back soon!
Tex
http://www.savemedjool.com
Hi y'all,
I was the editor for sf.myopenbar.com. The info and sassy comments were primarily mine. If anyone wants to hire me and pay me to run a new version of the site, I'm putting myself out here for contact.
I was a freelancer for the SF Onion too. This has been one of the crappier weeks of my life.
I don't know if SFist/Gothamist are properly "monetized" but keeping and updating a similar alcohol-centric event list would tie in nicely with this site.
That's too bad, it was a great resource, as was the SF onion...Both did more to keep me informed of things of interest than many so-called "newspapers" out there that are boring and poorly written.
Perhaps they could be sponsored by SFist/LAist?
The weekly emails were a ray of sunshine through the foggy SF days.
This is how i know life isnt fair. Free booze websites take a dive while thousands of people that profited from AIG are drinking, pissing and snorting your parents retirement away.