Food, Drink & Dining Out The Perth Thread - Part 2

[Carl Hooper]

So did I yesterday, $450 gawn. Fml as well.
I've got an ANZ Indonesia account & card that I have in another wallet, so I go to an ANZ this morning to get some cash out & the atm won't even give me a balance on the account let alone cash.
Go to a bankwest atm & it works fine but get slugged $6 for the transactions, campaigners.

Damn.. And I was in shambles because I lost $50 and all my cards and licenses smh

Commonwealth cardless cash saved me during my hungover state yesterday though... But yeah, I'm still holding onto hope I left it in one of my mates cars.

Either that, or someone's sliced it.. I was in rocko ffs

 

[Carl Hooper]

The Perth Wildcats need to lower their ticket prices smh

 

[Scotland]

Can't you just sneak in or steal someone else's tickets?

The Wildcats get the best crowds in the NBL and are probably the only viable basketball club in Australia. But yeah they should lower their ticket prices for a dude who steals s**t.

 

[Carl Hooper]

You seriously just follow me around General Discussion with your negativity?

They lose the 'casual fans' due their ticket prices. The fact the nosebleeds are $20 then the next best is $50+ is dumb and they're losing money. They could sell out every week if they were smart.

 

[Kram]

Must say I was pretty surprised when a few years back I heard how much the Wildcat tickets were. Don't mind basketball but at nearly AFL price levels I wouldn't go.

 

[Scotland]

If your business model works then casual fans don't really matter.

The odd person who will go once a year if it's $20 but not $25 doesn't mean as much to the bottom line as the few thousand who will buy season tickets.

It's the same reason I laugh at people who think the new stadium will be cheap. The clubs/venue management will price tickets to maximise their overall revenue. No point having 60,000 through the gates each week if they pay $10 each.

 

[Biggie]

It's the same reason I laugh at people who think the new stadium will be cheap.

Who actually thinks this?

 

[WCErevival]

What is an average ticket price for a West Coast game these days?

 

[estibador]

What is an average ticket price for a West Coast game these days?

Don't know about normal games but last time I looked into getting an away derby ticket I think they were $77.

 

[Kram]

Don't know about normal games but last time I looked into getting an away derby ticket I think they were $77.

They have a different pricing structure than us but the prices shouldn't change no matter the opponent.

Freo tickets I buy when I come up for the occasional game usually range from about $55-70 from memory.

 

[Carl Hooper]

$55-70?! Aye?

I was going to back to back games in Melbourne for about $60 last year.

The boom's over, stop charging everybody like we are all on 120k a year Rio Tinto salaries, Perth is finished.

 

[gaskin]

It's supply and demand. They need to have cheap tickets in Melbourne to get people through the gate. Here they know they can charge those prices and people will still go.

 

[Kram]

You can sometimes get around $35 GA for Freo games but they are very s**t seats especially during day games with the sun in your face. They can charge a lot because most games still sellout but Melbourne is an over-saturated market so it's cheap.

 

[Scotland]

Tickets to the Knicks and the Lakers should be $30. I mean you can get tickets to the Hornets or Pelicans for that...

 

[Carl Hooper]

Yeah cos the Knicks and the Lakers are comparable to the dockers and Eagles

 

[perthblue]

for real tho, wildcats ticket prices are taking the piss a little bit

 

[Scotland]

Yeah cos the Knicks and the Lakers are comparable to the dockers and Eagles

High ticket prices are one of the key reasons the WA clubs are so strong off field. If the Western Bulldogs could sell 40,000 season tickets for $500 a pop they would. But they can't, so they don't. Being able to buy a ticket to 99% of games at the gate is great, as is being able to sit in plenty of areas in the MCG for GA prices. But if you want that, then you have to cop 9 teams in the same city all competing for sponsors and fans, your team not being on TV etc. West Coast have been plenty of things the last 20 years but bankrupt and in the gun for merger/relocation isn't one of them.

The NBA analogy is perfectly valid. I'm sure there are plenty of people who complain that it costs $100+ to see a Knicks game. The option is there to drive Philadelphia and watch a game there. Or move to Charlotte.

 

[perthblue]

why cant they just buy pokie machines like the vic clubs ffs

 

[Scotland]

for real tho, wildcats ticket prices are taking the piss a little bit

Market forces my friend. If you don't like it then don't go. If people stop going they'll reassess their ticket pricing.

Their operating costs are also probably a fair bit higher playing at the Arena compared to PEC, Burswood Dome, Challenge Stadium etc. too.

 

[Scotland]

why cant they just buy pokie machines like the vic clubs ffs

Emperor Barnett says no.

And I agree. I have nanny stateing for the most part but pokies are a plague.

 

[Off The Couch]

It's amusing that people will spend a couple of hundred dollars out clubbing or $100 plus for a festival and even more for a concert but baulk at $50 for a game of footy or basketball.

 

[Off The Couch]

I hate that the Hawks are so heavily invested in pokies but it also must be difficult when you are competing in a small market against 8 others for a slice of the pie

 

[perthblue]

Market forces my friend. If you don't like it then don't go. If people stop going they'll reassess their ticket pricing.

Their operating costs are also probably a fair bit higher playing at the Arena compared to PEC, Burswood Dome, Challenge Stadium etc. too.

are Glory tix expensive compared to the rest of the country? I've never thought that the $27 or whatever it is for general admish was particularly outrageous but some people think games are pricey.

 

[Kram]

Their operating costs are also probably a fair bit higher playing at the Arena compared to PEC, Burswood Dome, Challenge Stadium etc. too.

They were expensive as well back when they were at that Challenge Stadium dump.

 

[Carl Hooper]

It's amusing that people will spend a couple of hundred dollars out clubbing or $100 plus for a festival and even more for a concert but baulk at $50 for a game of footy or basketball.

$100+ for a festival of getting off scrotum for 7+hours with your mates vs sitting and watching b-grade Aussie basketball?