I was driving today, off to pay the mortgage and my property taxes, and had the radio on listening to Rush, during the 12:30 break the local station has one of those CBS moneyline breaks and they were talking about sports temas and the economy and the idea of dropping ticket prices and there was a quote from someone who was opposed to the idea.
The person said that they thought dropping the ticket prices was a bad idea since it might mislead the customer as to the value of their ticket.
THE VALUE OF THE TICKET? I think that changes in the way things have been done lately might be confusing something.
If I have a ticket to a Red Sox game it has value because I want to go to the damn game. It has no value otherwise.
If I want to sell the ticket it’s only value is the desire of someone else to see that particular game.
Now you might have a special event at a particular game but a game is a game is a game. If you are a fan of a particular starter or say of a team that is visiting the ticket might command a larger price (Read: Sox Yankees), but the idea that you might confuse fans as to the value of the product by dropping the price in this case is just plain foolish.
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