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- From: glenb@sr.hp.com (Glen Baker)
- Subject: Re: Club Vertical
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:02:04 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.192659.25132@adobe.com>
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- Mike Parker (mparker@adobe.com) wrote:
-
- > [cheaper tickets]
-
- Fine.
-
- > [special lines]
-
- Bad idea.
-
- > [prizes for accumulated vertical]
-
- Shrug. Don't care.
-
- > The one person who scores the most feet gets next year's season pass
- > free.
-
- Cute, but statistically insignificant.
-
- > free ski check
-
- Many areas already do this for everybody.
-
- > So what do y'all think?
-
- Overall a bad idea.
-
- > I think they missed out on lot's of opportunity. First, the opportunity to
- > replace cash. Why can't I buy hot dogs with the thing?
-
- Well, for a lot of reasons. The biggest is probably that in most cases
- the resort does NOT sell hot dogs. Concessionaires rent space from the
- resort and sell hot dogs. Getting all of the concessionaires to use a
- central accounting system would certainly be a challenge.
-
- > I could either have a credit card on file,
-
- Very extremely dangerous.
-
- > or if I was afraid of losing the thing and thus losing a fortune, I could
- > always keep a small cash balance on it.
-
- ...which means that you'd have to be continually recharging thus removing
- any advantage that you might have had.
-
- > Second, what about pay as you go.
-
- I hate this idea, but then again I suspect that most people who ski alot
- would hate this idea. I'm one of those people who are subsidised by
- the person who buys a ticket and only skis a few runs.
-
- > They could use the system to fiddle with supply and demand.
- > So, what else can we do with this new toy??
- > What's the net's opinion?
-
- Overall I don't like these schemes very much. One thing to consider is
- that while it might be easy to come up with a whole laundry list of
- features that YOU would like, the resort has no incentive to do anything
- unless they will make more money. This means you either pay more for less
- or more people are enticed to pay less for the same (follow?) which means
- more crowding.
-
- ..glen
-
- Eugene...wanna teach me to XC? This is getting out of hand!
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