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I am not going to Ford Field either... I think it's a stupid idea to
hold such an important set of games in a place like that. (And if
anyone important is lurking here on the list... I am totally serious...
I hope you all lose your shirts on this one. )
Carol
GO Gophers!!!
Hampton, Nathan E. wrote:
>Erik, et. al.
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>If only that were true. I have been looking forward to Washington DC for such a long time and have been dreading Detroit for exactly the same time frame. I am not going to Detroit, unless they are giving me the tickets and $189. Yes, they have to pay me to go to a cavernous hole without a single good seat. There are NO seats close to the ice in a football arena, so no seats worth the normal price we have paid. If I have to, I will give the tickets away for free (plenty of unemployed auto workers in the area who love hockey).
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>As for the two price points, it may reflect quality differences (Detroit vs. Windsor) and therefore higher price is for the better good and the lower price for the poorer good; but in a smaller arena I would argue price discrimination, which a monopolist like the NCAA can use to increase profit. Those who have revealed a strong preference for the good (each of us with high priority numbers) will pay the higher price, and those without priority numbers (without strong preference revelation) will pay the lower price (though you may be sitting right next to each other). If they set the price so that Ford Field would sell out, it would be somewhere between $189 and $119, but rather than both groups (high and low revealed preference) paying one price as has been the case in the past, they are now using their proprietary information (whether or not we are on the priority list) to price the tickets.
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>Nathan
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>On 1/23/09 1:49 PM, "Erik Biever" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>The dates and location of the 2010 Frozen Four have also been adjusted. The
>2010 Frozen Four will now take place on April 10 and April 12, 2009, at Ford
>Field in Detroit.
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>-- Erik
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