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Originally Posted by Reneeee
Albeit I am being extreme but just because something is a hot commodity in high demand, I cant see the justification for the increased prices. If the entire world was this way we would be worse off.
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I'm guessing you haven't taken a basic economics class. The exact reason for increased prices is because something is a hot commodity in high demand. Once you enter the Saddledome you will find that prices for beer, pop, hot dogs, etc. are substantially higher than you'd find at a retail store in the suburbs. Why? Because they have a captive audience that is willing to pay for a non essential good. The entire world may not be this way, but how did well does communism work out?
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Originally Posted by Reneeee
I look at it this was. Just because you have the privilege of tickets doesn't mean you should be able to abuse that power and make a massive profit of 200% or more
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The reason I have season tickets is not power or privilege. I have them because nine years ago I signed up for the waiting list and I chose to spend my disposable income to watch hockey. Holding that ticket does in fact give me the right to charge whatever I want for that ticket. Hockey tickets are luxury items (services) and they are not a bottle of water or a hotel room during a flood. The tens of thousands of dollars I have paid give me the right to go to the game, give/donate the tickets, or sell them for whatever I want. The flip side is the market has the choice to buy my tickets at the price I ask, make a counter offer, or decline to buy them. When games are not in high demand the market doesn't want to go to them. This is when I may sell a game for $80 per pair, even though I paid more for it, and face value is even more than that. Sometimes it's too late, or there isn't demand, and my seats go unused and I have to eat that cost. You shouldn't feel sorry for me when this happens. That's a risk I take when I sign up for season tickets. If you cannot mark up prices for high demand games, are you not allowed to drop prices for low demand games? Is a person morally wrong for offering $50 for a ticket that has a face value of $100?
No one is being forced to go to a hockey game. You choose to go to one. If you can't afford it, maybe it's because you made other choices in life. You could be a person who wants to travel three months of the year, you are a student, you bought a new house, you wanted a car, etc. Some people decline to go on trips, have finished school, etc. and have decided they want to go to the hockey game. Just because someone spent all their money on a trip does not give them the right to also be able to buy hockey tickets.
You say that a person does not have the right to a 200% profit. Why? The only way this is eliminated is if the Flames sell all of the tickets to the end consumers. Since the demand will be there, the Flames will raise the prices and take in all the profits. That's good right? Unfortunately this will price out a huge amount of fans, but the only way to stop a secondary market is to raise the prices of the primary market. It will also kill a team's fan base, as people won't become fans knowing the prices are too high. The average fan is not one that is paying $500 per ticket.
I've said it many times, but just because you want to go to a playoff game, doesn't give you the right to. If multiple people want to go to the same game, the price will increase. That is extremely simple to understand, basic economics. If you want to go to all the games at face value, then buy season tickets. It's that easy. If you can't afford, or don't want to buy an entire season, the price goes up. It should, because why should a person who buys one game pay the same amount as someone buying 50 games? You get discounts for buying in bulk.
You still have not said how this is morally wrong. Simply stating it is morally wrong without any back up doesn't make your point. It was mentioned in another thread, but it bears repeating here. If you say the sky is blue and someone asks why, you can't just say 'because it's blue'. That's not a reason. There is a actual reason on why it's blue, so just explain it. You also didn't answer a number of other questions posed to you.