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The biggest abuse of this was definitely with the A’s stadium in Oakland. If a game doesn’t sell out, the city pays for the empty seats. Your tax dollars at wor
by uber-employee 8y ago
The biggest abuse of this was definitely with the A’s stadium in Oakland. If a game doesn’t sell out, the city pays for the empty seats. Your tax dollars at work.
- FiveSquared25 8y agoAt least Cbase Center will be better!
- ghouse 8y agoSource?
- dtech 8y agoHow is that even possible? It completely disincentives the need to market and sell tickets. I assume there's rules against this, but take this to the extreme and see how preposterous it is: 365 days a year, 24 1-hour baseball games every day. The city will pay for it.
- davvolun 8y agoThat sounds crazy, I can't find any information to back up that statement. Need source. I'm finding something back in the 90s/early 2000s that might be related; the city was handling marketing and ticket sales, so maybe there was something there (if the city fails to sell so many tickets, they have to pay). But from what I'm seeing, that hasn't been true for about 15 years.