coladin
Registered User
- Sep 18, 2009
- 11,819
- 4,507
Wow, for a guy who claims to be a business owner you sure don’t have a grasp of consumer confidence. When a business entity disenfranchises its customer base to the point where the business suffers, that is called capitalism. The consumer speaks with their wallets as their voice. Decrying the customer base is step one towards insolvency.
For all the people that are still confused, there is no such thing as a “bad fan base”. That is a myth. In any market (not just hockey but anything) if you do not have a product that people will spend money to support, then that product is a failure. Products fail. Happens all the time.
If the on ice product was exciting, reasonably priced, good in game experience, etc, people will spend to watch even if they hate the owner.
But right now the Senators have a bad owner, controversy, chaos, terrible on ice product, etc, etc. The team simply has no basis to blame the fan base.
If hockey is a "product" similar to a toaster, then this team is truly f***ed. All this product/consumer talk is a weak attempt at justifying bad fans being bad.
Hockey tickets are the worst product there is, as any other high end sports ticket. There is no guarantee of satisfaction and no game should be worth more than 50 bucks just in that basis. People spending upwards of 200$ to sit in club seats makes zero sense.
And yet they do it everywhere but here in Canada. Easily. I know, I know, Ottawa fans are smart and the rest of the country is dumb. You are really showing 'em. That playoff run really showed the rest of the country AND THE OWNER, what kind of dedicated fans we have.
Maybe the rest of the country is more passionate. Maybe they support their team in good times and bad. Maybe they just get that being in love with hockey means rooting for your team at the arena. Maybe they don't use the owner as a scapegoat to cover up their failures and guilt. Like, he is not pleasant...So abandon the team? What tremendous moral high ground this city lives by. I had no idea Ottawans were so principled and uppity.
Or maybe they just care about their team more.
All this to say the product/consumer argument is embarrassing. Hockey cannot be treated like so or else it would not exist. Anywhere. Period. Then again, this city had tarps over their seats because a generational player wasn't worth their 20 bucks.
Sad. But hand away at the product/consumer angle. Maybe I should treat Sens games like my pants where the zipper broke.