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Economic Fairness Poll

Team makes playoffs for 1stime in 20yrs Whats fairest way to sell tickets to playoffs


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degsme

Council Member
Consider a sports team that has made the playoffs for the first time in decades. What is the FAIREST way for them to sell tickets for their playoff games
 

degsme

Council Member
This is an interesting question because only one maximizes the team's profits. But at the same time, sports teams rely on "Fan Loyalty" over the long run to make money and that means some perception of "fairness" is necessary.
 

Zam-Zam

Senator
Consider a sports team that has made the playoffs for the first time in decades. What is the FAIREST way for them to sell tickets for their playoff games

I think the fairest thing to do is let those who own the team distribute the tickets as they see fit. It is, after all, their team.
 

degsme

Council Member
I think the fairest thing to do is let those who own the team distribute the tickets as they see fit. It is, after all, their team.
Right but the question is that the TEAM needs to know what the FANS think is fairest so as to be able to assess which choice maximizes profit from ticket sales over an extended period.
 

degsme

Council Member
Isn't "economic fairness" just another name for communism?
Economics is the study of trade an commerce in a society.

So you are saying that when trade and commerce are perceived as 'fair' it is communism?


Be careful,, there's a commie hiding inside your computer watching you....
 

connieb

Senator
I think the reality is that the teams know the fans will grouch, but will ultimately come back and buy tickets again. Unless of course the team continues to suck. So, in the end, it doesn't matter what fans think. There will be more fans, there will be more dollars from other fans if you piss these off.
 

degsme

Council Member
I think the reality is that the teams know the fans will grouch, but will ultimately come back and buy tickets again. Unless of course the team continues to suck. So, in the end, it doesn't matter what fans think. There will be more fans, there will be more dollars from other fans if you piss these off.
hmm so then why do so many sports teams have to do "promotions" like "bat night" to keep their numbers up?
 

connieb

Senator
Because they try to get ticket sales on certain nights of the week. Sports that have long season like baseball and basketball do struggle with filling the stands on nights that are an inconvenience to go to the ball park/arena. Simply because the fans know there will be a game the following weekend, or next week.

Yes, they want to sell tickets. That is their point. But, I don't think that the ownership believes long term damage will be done to the fan base by their distribution method of post season ticket sales. And, I don't either.
 

Lukey

Senator
Economics is the study of trade an commerce in a society.

So you are saying that when trade and commerce are perceived as 'fair' it is communism?


Be careful,, there's a commie hiding inside your computer watching you....
No, I am saying that when people seek to use political power to enforce economic "fairness" that that is a stop on the road to communism (the dictatorship of the proletariat).
 
Sheesh who really cares if playoff tickets are sold on a fairness formula? Season ticket holders should be given first shot as they have supported the team all year long then the league and opposing team get their allotment. They can set their prices however they want to and sell to first come maybe a limit on how many an individual can buy. Unless I have a family member on the team I am watching it on the idiot box anyway.

Unless its the Marlins they will be sold out why should the team care?
 

degsme

Council Member
I have not heard of an auction for tickets by a team. Are not the prices set and any tickets sold to highest bidder sold on the resell market and not by the team?
This is a Behavioural Econ test. it shows how people identify what they consider "econometrically fair" without a politicized context.
 

degsme

Council Member
No, I am saying that when people seek to use political power to enforce economic "fairness" that that is a stop on the road to communism (the dictatorship of the proletariat).
So then enforcing contract obligations and property rights - according to you - is the road to communism???!!!??

BOO There's a Commie behind that bush.


Frankly all your nonsense about communism is rather insulting. you completely denigrate the suffering my parents and grandparents went through at the hands of idiots who touted communism as a solution but who enforced totalitarianism. And what they suffered at the hands of true facists (whom you have the gall to call "socialist"). for you to equate someone like Obama - who is to the right of Clinton and nowhere near someone like Sarkozy or Merkel - NEITHER of which are anywhere near real socialism - well it spits on the graves of my Gulag suffereing paternal grandparents, on the courage of my maternal grandmother in escaping a Nazi forced labor camp, and the revolting notion of putting both of my 6yo parents on Stalin's execution lists.

You are so cossetted, pampered and coddled through your life that you throw around accusations of socialism and marxism exactly the same way McCarthy did. And you deserve the same karmic result
 

888888

Council Member
well of course the season ticket holders should get first chance to buy their own seats they bought for the entire season. after that make it fair and allow anyone who wants a ticket the oppertunity to be drawn for a ticket. Not everyone has the ability to stand in line or have the high tech phones to make call after call.

But in all reality, it's a dam game and if the team wants people to be fans, they better be smart and not piss off those who they need to fill the seats. It's their choice, but I know if I felt slighted, I would not attend the next year or maybe for many years.
 
I think that they ought to take the money from rich ticket buyers and buy tickets for the poor. After all, it's only fair.
 
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