NHL Team Offers 'Bid On Your Own Price' Season Tickets
from the modified-name-your-own-price dept
The whole "name your own price" thing has been getting a lot of attention lately. Lots of people, of course, mention Radiohead's use of it, but others have been using it as well, including video game companies, taxi drivers and even Panera Bread. There's even been some research about the best way to set up such a "pay what you want" offering.Apparently, one NHL franchise is willing to test some of this out as well. The Florida Panthers are letting fans bid on their own price for season tickets. It's not name your own price, but more of a bidding system. You pick the seats you want, and then propose what you think those seats should cost on a per-game basis. Within 24-hours someone from the team will get back to you and let you know whether you got the seats.
If anything, the setup sounds a bit more like Priceline's system for flights and hotels -- which actually makes me wonder if Priceline might get a bit upset. If I remember correctly, Priceline used to brag about its patents on such auction-like name-your-own-price setups, and threaten to sue anyone who did anything similar.
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I mean... normally I wouldn't be able to patent "a system to make several lines of cash registers", but if I don't actually build a supermarket around it, I can sue all supermarkets that copy me?
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I would think it would, since each person is supposedly paying the maximum they are willing to pay (as long as the service accepts their bid).
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I HATE announcers that try to make it all about them.
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It's actually got nothing to do with making it about him. Those non-sequitors are suggested on and then voted for by Panthers fans on a sports radio show. It's actually a great example of CwF....
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