Basically it will guarantee that the best seat in the house is in your
living room.

-Todd
http://creasemonkeyhockey.blogspot.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carol S. White" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: 2010 Frozen Four


> 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.
> >
> >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).
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Nathan
> >
> >
> >On 1/23/09 1:49 PM, "Erik Biever" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >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.
> >
> >-- Erik
> >
> >
> >
> >