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Originally Posted by alnorth
I'm not sure you completely understand what is going on. It doesn't just go up, it can go both ways. Games can potentially be reduced below what they would have cost last year, the only floor is that it can never go below the season ticket holder price. (but if a game is in that poor of a demand, just go to stubhub and get a really cheap ticket from a STH who wants to dump the seat)
If its a Friday night fireworks game, forecast is 75 degrees, the Royals and Tigers are tied at the top of the division, its Verlander vs Shields and only 4,000 tickets are remaining, then they are going to bump up the price.
If its a game against the last-place Astros in the middle of the week and the forecast calls for showers and an emergency Triple-A journeyman was called up to start for us, they are going to discount that ticket to try to get someone, anyone, to show up.
The fact that stubhub exists really limits how much the Royals can squeeze from fans.
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I understand exactly how it works. The ceiling is a lot higher than the floor is low, and raising the price is a lot more common than lowering it. If they do lower it, it will be for mid-week games and games with questionable weather. The questionable weather games are really only going to be relevant within 24 hours of the game, and if it seems that weather will be bad, no one is going to go anyway, even at a slightly discounted ticket.
I understand all the reasoning behind it, I just think that for a team like the Royals (bad for many years), it doesn't help matters with fans to appear to be grubbing for the last dollar. Price the Yankees and Cardinals games higher, price the weekend games higher, price the weekday games lower and be done with it. I think even the perception of potentially constant adjustments will just turn people off.