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If I'm waiting longer because someone else paid money to get ahead of me, I personally wish that a large percentage of that money had to go to some nonprofit...
by VikingCoder 3y ago
If I'm waiting longer because someone else paid money to get ahead of me, I personally wish that a large percentage of that money had to go to some nonprofit...
That's my personal take. I get there's no way to enforce it, and it'd be a crappy law. But that's what I wish would happen.
- userulluipeste 3y agoThe issue here is how our position is perceived, right? If it's about feeling better, we may assume that the operator could have risen the ticket price for all, or did what we see instead - chose to take more only from the willing. Doesn't this effectively mean that they partly subsidy the tickets for the rest?
- VikingCoder 3y agoIt sounds like a nice theory. But selling an expensive ticket to them decreases the supply of cheap tickets they can sell to me... Right?
- userulluipeste 3y ago"But selling an expensive ticket to them decreases the supply of cheap tickets they can sell to me... Right?" Yes. But, the tickets are theirs to sell (or give, or withhold). The reason they are selling the cheap tickets to you is because you most likely won't chose to be their customer unless they offer the said tickets at that price, and they happen to desire having you as a customer in some circumstance. After filling as much seats they could with high margin offers, between getting no more money by running with the rest of the seats empty and getting some more money by running with all the remaining seats filled by some lower profit margin offer (i.e. cheap tickets), they chose the later.
- VikingCoder 3y agoYeah, but the cost of my ticket is governed by supply and demand of tickets at my price. Your theory was that selling someone else an expensive ticket would decrease the cost of mine. But I think your logic is flawed.