Gump Hasek
Spleen Merchant
I tend to agree that while the ideal is to have supply and demand at exactly the right point to maximize profit, what we end up with is varying demand for different games, plus the individual vs STH price levels. I do think that most operations will look at price before anything else when they want to hit a certain profit level (thanks to things like their self-imposed league tax).
That would be 100% true if we weren't discussing the upper echelon, the revenue sharing payees. An increased expense such as revenue sharing can easily be offset in markets such as Toronto and Montreal simply by raising ticket prices. Claims such as those made earlier in the thread, claims that revenue sharing payments have no impact upon ticket prices are easily countered when one considers the near insatiable demand for tickets in certain markets. It is a canard at best. Revenue sharing payments can in fact place an upward price boost upon ticket pricing in strong markets.
I get that one can eventually price oneself out of a market, but we have yet to reach that point at the top level.
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