People say the NHL owners won big by implementing a salary cap for the first time during their lockout. Now we see the NBA owners winning big. What about the fans? Reduction of ticket prices did not happen in the NHL.
ticket prices should decrease, but i dont expect them to. that being said, im fine w/ letting the market dictate ticket prices. look at all those sell-outs at the toyota center!
Player salaries don't influence ticket prices and they never have, so there's no reason to expect that to change.
I hope this is one area Morey works at. American pro sports has some of the most inflexible pricing plans around. To me it's not so much whether the prices go up or down. But rather they be priced according to their worth. For example, if a fan just wants to experience a live Rockets game with his kids for cheap, they should be able to buy, say, Clippers tickets at a lower price. OTOH, Heat tickets should be jacked up because there's a huge demand to see Superfriends. Things like that. Similar with seat locations and trying to be flexible with their values. Obviously I don't know the details of how these things would work. But Morey's group of geeks should be quite proficient at these sort of things. I want a plan that both let the Rockets make money and make fans happy. It can be a win-win situation if they handle it well.
Owners should increase prices by at least 50% because if the wealthy have more money they will create more jobs and that is what we need in times like these....
In some ways, it does work like that, if you can see the Rockets' away games. I used to go to Net games to watch the Rockets, I could get 2nd level seats for half the price of the worst seats at Knick games (this was before the Knicks had Amar'e). Although, now I'm sure prices are going to go up, the Nets are moving to Brooklyn and they have Deron Williams, so I'll have to drive down to Charlotte or something to watch games.
Look at the rockets suite packages theirs bronze,silver,gold and diamond based on lakers,heat,cavs etc
In theory, maybe. But in practice, full (44 game) season ticket prices do not operate by supply/demand like most products/commodities. I've watched this over the years. Les once had a Director of Marketing in Francis's early years who was quoted on the front page of the Chronicle saying, "We are raising season ticket prices due to lack of sales." She really said that. If supply/demand dictates season tickets, then the loss of Yao should lower prices all by itself, no? I haven't seen the Rockets drop prices on the 44-game tickets (except for a few rows at the top) since forever...not counting when they moved to Toyota Center, upper deck got a small drop in prices, but this was due to the upper deck's view being worse than the Summit, because TC has rows of luxury boxes...~ 20-30 ft high. Also, the other odd thing that doesn't quite make sense, if supply/demand dictates prices, then why are Rockets season ticket prices (for the year, not a game) 2.5 times more expensive than Texans season tickets for comparable seats. (I haven't researched that for about 5 year, but this definitely was the case, so I assume it is pretty similar). Rockets were 2 times more expensive than Astros.
I have only purchased tickets for individual games. There are 44 games for a full season ticket package? Are the 3 extra tickets for playoffs or is it for playoffs? Do you get a refund if it's for playoffs and they don't make the playoffs?
The 3 extra are preseason, at full price. Playoff tickets are usually invoiced in Feb/March. Some teams bill you for every possible home game through the Finals. Rockets used to do that. Now they tend to bill upfront for just the 1st two rounds. Tickets are non-refundable (as I recall). You are given a credit for next season tickets for any games not played. I might be out of date on this, though.
I actually like going to the preseason games. It's a great way to scout the new players...but full price is silly.
Maybe ticket prices should decrease, but that has nothing to do with the lockout. It's all about creating a maximum profit from the amount of seats you have. Whatever the players are getting paid is irrelevant.
lol at the premise of this thread. owners, who will yell loudly to whomever will listen about how terrible they are at running nba franchises, are going to lower ticket prices?
