This is a Nate and Kara Buchanan YouTube vlog announcing the launch of Fair Drop 2.0 and celebrating by flying the core team to Greece using a $300 round-trip fare the app found. They describe Fair Drop’s origin (initial release in 2019), how the pandemic forced the company to pause and then refocus (during which they limited searches to flights departing from the U.S.), and explain how the service finds deals by searching millions of flight combinations. The video introduces team members (Allie, Justin, Brian, Austin, plus spouses/friends), shows travel and Athens footage (PA announcements list Chicago O'Hare at 10:35am and Athens at 7:22am), and closes with promotional details: average savings claimed ($450), a Black Friday launch offer of 50% off the Business plan valid through November 30, an Economy plan priced at $49 (Business upgrade value noted as $50), and a 90-day money-back guarantee.
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Today we are flying to Greece for $300. These tickets were such a good deal.
That we booked it for ourselves as well as 10 other people.
I'll explain how we snagged this deal as well as who all these other people are.
But first, we have to catch a flight to Chicago.
As a Nashvillian, I've never been very proud of the Nashville airport, but they've been doing a lot of construction and upgrades, and now they have live music playing at 8. And he's getting better.
We're going to grace over.
On behalf of the entire crew, we'd.
Like to welcome you aboard.
Welcome to Chicago O' Hare International Airport. The current time is 10:35am and we wish all of you a pleasant day. Now get off my flight.
Thank you. You're welcome. Take.
So back in 2019, we released Fair.
Drop into the world.
And our goal at that time was to save people a ton of money.
On flights by finding them the best deals on the Internet.
So basically what would happen is people would sign up as a member, they would tell us when and where they wanted to travel, and then we would.
Send them deals that met their travel preferences.
Fast forward nine months. Things were starting to go really well. We had saved hundreds of people tons.
Of money on flights. And then the pandemic brought air travel to a screeching halt.
Long story short, instead of giving up, we doubled down.
Instead of letting people go to save costs, we hired more people to build a better product.
It's been over a year now, but fair drop 2.0 is finally ready to share with the world. And this trip is kind of a celebration to all the hard work that's gone into getting the business to this.
Point and all the people that you're.
Going to meet in this video, they're.
All part of the awesome team who helped bring this to life.
So basically what happened is I had early access to the app and as.
I was playing around with it, I found $300 round trip flights to Greece.
So we booked them for the whole team. We rented a big Airbnb in Athens.
And I guess you could call this our first company retreat.
We're making this all up as we go.
This is how we always spend the last, like, five minutes of the flight before we take off looking up the Rotten Tomatoes score of every single movie on the screen. Because there is nothing worse than wasting an hour and a half of your life on that mov. Excuse me, I have some good thing to do.
In the event Oxygen mask drop from an overhead compartment, remove Your face mask before placing the oxygen mask over your nose and mouth.
9 and 12 hours to Athens.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Athens. The current time here is 7:22am thank you so much.
You're welcome.
That flight was only about half full, so we each got to stretch out on three seats. Might as well have been business class, no?
What is happening down there?
I don't want my feet to get cold.
Okay. According to my watch, it is 12am Our body should be asleep right now.
So in order to fit everyone in the same place, we rented an entire two story building. The bottom floor has a three bedroom apartment. This floor has a three bedroom apartment.
Plus.
By far the best part of this place is the hot tub with this incredible view of the Acropolis.
Do I look tired? I feel tired, but in the best way possible where I know I've been making the most of my time. This crew has been going non stop between work and play ever since we got here. And there has been very little time for sleep. As soon as we landed, we started a tour of the city, which now just feels like a jet lag. According to my watch, my body thinks it is 3:12am and we are touring Poseidon's temple.
Yama Yama.
I had all intentions of filming this trip just like any other trip we.
Would film, but admittedly I've done a very poor job. So basically what I have right now, after traveling around Greece for the last few days is the equivalent of a bad home movie. One of those that your grandparents might force you to sit down and watch after they get back from a trip.
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This is fast.
Wow.
There'S a lot of theater in the changing of the guards at the Presidential Palace. I honestly don't even think I could live my life that high if I tried.
Of course, the guys had to turn this into a race.
Mixing well around. This will start getting thickening.
To.
Yeah, I already forgot it.
Who's next?
Not me.
Peer pressure is setting in.
I think we're doing it.
Yes.
For those of you who made it.
Through that home movie, thank you.
And I want to introduce you to.
The Fair Drop team.
The crazy thing about this trip is that the majority of us had never met in person before. So shoving everyone into an Airbnb for a week was a bit of a risk. But so far so good.
We are feeling more grateful than ever that not only are the people on our team really good at what they.
Do, but they're also just fun, fun people to be around getting to work together in person for the first time has been really refreshing. And this trip coinciding with the launch of the new app has us all more excited than ever about what we're creating. So now that I've had time to get to know everyone a little better, let me introduce you to the team. This is Allie. She's the one that decides which deals are good enough to be shown on the app. So basically, the way Fair Drop works is that we search literally millions of different flight combinations every day to find.
The best deals available. So as I was watching this back.
I did realize that I forgot to.
Tell you one piece of bad news about Fair Drop.
And that's it.
During the pandemic, we had to make.
The hard decision to only search flights.
Departing from the U.S. so if you don't live in the U.S. right now.
Fare drop is not going to be.
Very useful to you. But we do hope to change that in the future.
All of the best deals then get sent to our proprietary deals dashboard. Ally looks at all the deals that our software finds and then she makes the final decision on whether or not they're good enough to be sent out.
To our Fair Drop member.
Then members can set their travel preferences so they only receive the deals they're interested in. So that's kind of like how our back end technology works. I'm going to explain what you see from a traveler's perspective in just a minute. But first let me introduce you to two more people. This is Justin and Brian.
They're the software developers who are way smarter than me and who are responsible for building the software that finds the deals as well as the new app. And last but not least, this is Austin. He's a childhood friend who's also a.
Super talented software developer.
But more importantly, he is also my business partner and in charge of the.
Day to day operations at Fairdrop.
There is no way we ever would.
Have gotten this new app launched without him.
He focuses on making Fairdrop as valuable as possible for all of our members.
So that Karen I can keep focusing on these videos.
And since he knows Fairdrop better than anyone, I'm going to let him explain.
How the new app works.
Thanks, Nate. Once you become a member, you can choose a 10 departure airports where you can receive deals from. From there you'll select the regions of the world that you'd like to explore. And finally deselect any months that you're unavailable to travel. From there you'll be taken to the deals dashboard. This is the place where you can see all of your fare drops. It's dynamic so if you want to change your preferences, if you want to see deals from other airports, you can make those changes in your settings and it'll update instantly. We're also really excited about the Fare Drop mobile app where you can get push notifications to make sure that you never miss the best deals.
The average deal we said saves members $450 and I want to give you a preview of some of my favorite deals that we have sent Philadelphia to Osaka, Japan Santa Ana, California to Cape Town, South Africa Los Angeles to Bali, Indonesia Business class Fairs from Washington D.C. to Reykjavik, Iceland Business class from Las Vegas to Mexico City Business class from Boston to Madrid.
So that's the core team that brought the Fair Drop app to life. The rest of people here are either spouses, family or helping us with this YouTube channel.
We would all be super grateful if you would check out the new Fair Drop mobile app.
If you have a little flexibility with your dates and destinations, I know we.
Can save you a ton of money. And to celebrate Black Friday and the launch of the new app, we're now.
Offering 50% off our business Class plan. So if you sign up anytime between now and November 30th, you're going to.
Be able to pay for the economy.
Plan which is $49, and get upgraded.
To pay Business Class, which is a $50 value.
Plus. Now there's no risk to try it out because we're offering a 90 day money back guarantee. So sign up, try it out. If you're not happy in the first 90 days, we'll send you your money.
Back, no questions asked.
If saving money on flights and being able to stretch your travel budget further gets you excited, then head over to.
FairDrop.com or click the link in the description below. We've been working super hard on this and I'm really excited to finally be able to share it with you. I hope you like it.
