Guys, at a charity event, you're paying as a donation. The autograph / etc that you receive in return is the perk of being a donor. Kind of like a kickstarter for your favorite band where you pay $50 to help them with a project and you get a $8 CD or $15 vinyl record in return. In the same vein, my favorite hockey team frequently auctions off player jerseys for way beyond what you could get an authentic jersey for. It's not because people are paying the face value of the perk, it's a charity. Feel free to complain, I just feel like I need to play the role of captain obvious for some people.
Every autograph group has a reduced price of $25 from $50 with the exception of Harden, Nene & Dekker, which is still $100. What happens to the people that paid $50 originally?
Just checked - update on pricing: $25 for Anderson/Brewer/Capela, Ariza/Harrell/McDaniels, or Beverly/Prigioni/Gordon $10 photo w/Payton & Onuaku If you are one of the people who think those of us complaining should just shut up b/c it's for charity, you probably don't know basic economics. When there is zero demand for a product at a certain price ($50 for each trio's autographs listed besides Harden's trio), you can either sell zero packages or lower the price and sell 50-100+ packages (whatever is considered 'sold out' for this event). Same reason the Rockets should realize about $20 being the cheapest ticket option for most games this year - if you can't sell out at $20/seat, offer a one day deal and discount them to between $10-$15 and see how many more you sell. The team just discounted seats for opening night because they're realizing demand won't start til January at the earliest (which is what basically happens every year). I'm ALL in favor of supporting charity, but i'd rather put $5 in a donation box to attend the event instead.
Les could simply donate 1% of this year's ticket sales to charity but he'd rather have Rockets fans "donate" the money for an autograph. It's just another instance of Les sticking it to the team's fans like usual.
Think I'll skip the fan fest and just go to open practice. Knowing the rockets and how they do ****, it's gonna be some type of cluster f.
I went. Wished I had gone to the practice only. Bored for 2 straight hours. The fanfest part was terrible. People and kids trying to make free throws, layups etc... all the tired commercial break entertainment they've done before. At one point Horry, Moochie and Calvin talked about the past. No creativity whatsoever. No Clutch either! At The autograph part, they push you through NO PHOTOS!
Maybe they are okay with it, since it benefited a charity. Most people looking to get deals at an auction for the less fortunate probably don't deserve them anyway right?
