feepa wrote on Thu, 15 December 2022 11:34

CrusaderPi wrote on Thu, 15 December 2022 10:17 tardigrade81 wrote on Thu, 15 December 2022 10:07 Mike wrote on Thu, 15 December 2022 16:35 CrusaderPi wrote on Thu, 15 December 2022 11:37 NetBOG wrote on Thu, 15 December 2022 08:28 CrusaderPi wrote on Thu, 15 December 2022 08:16 Plenty of seats still available! Ya, ticetmaster showing some sections are still only half sold. and the team is being jerks about people buying and re-selling. The Oilers can't sell their inventory as it is. Customers become competition very quickly. So the sell out streak is over? You know you've screwed up pretty bad as an organization when you can't sell out your building in a hockey mad city like Edmonton with one of the best players in the history of the game in his prime with another guy who will go down as one of the best Europeans ever riding shotgun. Meh Seems everything since covid has changed. Hard to sell out any games. Whether that’s NFL, NBA, baseball. Anything. Covid is nothing more than an excuse. These problems were evident as soon as the initial buzz of the new arena wore off. Covid does not factor into the cost value equation. well I disagree. Lots of people are less well off, since Covid financially, for one reason or another. Affordability and inflation are way up since covid messed up supply chains world wide, and there other influences beyond covid too that are driving prices of everything up, and nice things to have like going to oilers games occasionally just gets dropped for those that were borderline able to afford it in the first place. Sure there is other reasons, but its not only related to Oilers, numbers are down in most leagues.

Some people might be less well off, but Oilers ticket buyers??? I'm not so sure. The laptop class was protected over covid, as was the ownership class, and the patch it doing pretty alright right now. The stresses the Oilers were facing (too much inventory at too high of a price with expensive add-ons) were apparent long before covid. They weren't able to sell their product out in 2018 or 2022. Covid, at worst, might have amplified that, but the problems are much deeper than just covid. The Oilers and many of their peers are simply living in a world they created for themselves that never existed.

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