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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Oh. So because you say so, I'm wrong. Gotcha.
So far, you're wrong.
Is the problem ticket prices, or is it that a lot of young people prefer to get their entertainment online and aren't interested in any kind of sports? If the latter, pricing won't fix the problem.
The claim I was responding to was that the existing fans can't afford the existing ticket prices. Nothing was said about the next generation until you came barging in and moved the goalposts 20 years into the future.
So while we're talking about relevancy, nothing you have said is even in the same decade with the issue being discussed.
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This response is a little bit all over the place, so I’m not sure what you want me to do with it. You’re wrong because you are, not because I say so. Your question is like asking someone if grass is green just because they say so. Acting indignant doesn’t make you less wrong. And you’ve topped it off by incorrectly labelling a factual statement as wrong, so I have to assume you probably just don’t understand pricing strategies for this kind of product (which is fine, it’s not a fault or anything, why would you understand it?) but at that point I don’t know why you would pretend to.
Your either/or scenario isn’t really one, because both of those things are connected, and I don’t know many people who would claim that pricing can’t or won’t be part of creating interest and bringing a desirable market segment in. Of course it will help solve that problem. It may not alone fix that problem, but nobody said it would. It can, however, help to create that problem in the first place.
The claim you were responding to actually went “
at some point it will become too expensive for fans to afford tickets.” Not existing fans at existing prices. Regardless, it seemed like moving the goalposts because the discussion moved beyond a limited understanding of it (careless labels like “basic supply and demand” and “what the market will bear”) into the actual factors that need to be and usually are considered when it comes to what they charge for something like Flames tickets. The goalposts didn’t move, you just weren’t on the field yet.
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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Don't act like that was a stupid remark. Businesses do market research on what their customers want. A customer is very unlikely to do market research to find out what all the other customers want.
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It wasn’t a stupid remark, but it was a funny remark considering that the way businesses find out what their customers want is by asking their customers.