Steve L said:
Would that be because people want their deposits back as they see no use into letting the teams keep hold of it for over a year?
I can see a lot of these people getting their tickets again but theses no sense in letting the team keep hold of your deposit when theres no sign of a season.
I don't know about other markets, but here in Vancouver, we pay for our tickets upfront - as usual... Every month there is no hockey, Orca Bay
slowly puts money back into our account...
*Rant on*
I imagine that they are collecting and pocketing the interest... It's a rather significant amount of money (and other regular game goers likely pay 2 to 3 times what we do), so they are potentially limiting the "entertainment options" of season ticket holders - while there is still a chance a season will be played... If it was just a deposit, whatever... But Orca Bay took the whole damn thing at the beginning... With a portion of the "entertainment" money we slowly get back each month, my buddies and I find something to do on the weekends (unfortunately, usually with our wives and girlfriends - we love them dearly, but hockey is a "guys night out" for us - a deversion from the throws of everyday life - and we are getting too old for clubbing, and strippers don't do much for us - we'd much rather see unprofessionals strip)...
We're kind of in limbo... If the NBA was still in Vancouver, I'd imagine that we would have gotten tickets to professional basketball instead... and we just haven't gotten into Giants hockey like we were hoping... The other week we went with our significant others for "dinner and dancing"... I'd rather watch an animal die than dance...
Our "entertainment enjoyment" so far this year has been lacking... But whatever... We're spoiled, breast-feeding North Americans, and there are people all around who have it much much worse than we do... In the end, **** hockey, it's just a game... If it's played, awesome... If it's not, that's fine too...
I think we're pretty creative... There's only a matter of time before we find something
worthwhile to do regularly to replace NHL hockey with... What we
should be doing is donating our money and time to a charity while the lockout is on... Instead of being whining, greedy, ***holes - just like the players and the owners... We're no better, so really, who are me and my buddies to judge and to blame...
This lockout has been quite the reality check... In that regard, I'm quite content... And that should be scary to the owners... I am not blindly and without hesitation handing over my money to them like in previous years (if they didn't take my money from the beginning of the season - I'm not so sure that I would be giving them my money as of this point in time - perhaps Orca Bay's marketing people predicted this would happen)... I'm re-evaluating and 2nd guessing my purchase... I'm not so sure that I'll be renewing my tickets depending on how this thing plays out... depending on how far what I interpret to be "greed" takes them... If I want to have integrity, my actions will have to support my thoughts and beliefs... If I get to that point where I
truly believe that "greed" has overtaken the "love" of the game, then I can't support it with my $... I'll watch hockey on cable TV for free... An extended lockout, to me, spanning 1+ years is a
pretty good sign of greed... as I do
not believe that things are so bad that hockey
cannot be played...
It feels kind of funny... Here we are, ready and willing consumers who have already given a company money for their product... and they are giving the money back each month...
It's kind of like, "thanks... but no thanks"...
*rant off*
Thanks for listening... It's been brewing for a while and had to get that off my chest