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    Re: MLB ending its 70 year partnership with Topps

    Quote Originally Posted by RedsBrick View Post
    How does 8-bucks for a beer at the ball park grab ya? It's all greed. It's business.
    I don't like it, the only thing I know to do is stay home and not buy souvenirs, concessions. I just watch the games on YouTube.


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    Re: MLB ending its 70 year partnership with Topps

    Quote Originally Posted by RedsBrick View Post
    How does 8-bucks for a beer at the ball park grab ya? It's all greed. It's business.
    Not greed, just profit maximizing. It is easy to graph using price/quanity(demand)/cost. So if the ball park can sell 10,000 beers(cost .$50) at $8=$75,000 profit ($80,000 - $5,000 cost )
    as opposed to selling 15,000 beers at $6 ($80,000 -$7,500)=$72,500. If they lower the price to $4 and sell 20,000 units then their profits decline to $70,000. However if they could sell 25,000 units at $4 then they would have $87,500 profit!

    Both beer and baseball cards are totally discretionary purchase. It is no more greed than a worker or baseball player seeking a job that pays the most.

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    Re: MLB ending its 70 year partnership with Topps

    I would hate to guess how many cards/sets I have. And I would say 95% of them are Topps.

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    Re: MLB ending its 70 year partnership with Topps

    Quote Originally Posted by RedsBrick View Post
    How does 8-bucks for a beer at the ball park grab ya? It's all greed. It's business.
    It’s not greed, although it is business based on supply and demand.

    But every business is entitled to maximize its profits.


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    Re: MLB ending its 70 year partnership with Topps

    Quote Originally Posted by gagliano View Post
    If it ain't topps, it ain't a baseball card. O death, wjere is thy sting?
    Topps actually was a late comer, Bowman predates them

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    Quote Originally Posted by westofyou View Post
    Topps actually was a late comer, Bowman predates them
    Fleer too, actually.
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    Re: MLB ending its 70 year partnership with Topps

    I suppose I come from a different world, because I still remember the neighborhood market in Winchester, Ky., where I could afford to buy one pack a week. The idea that it was possible to buy a whole set would be inconceivable.

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    Re: MLB ending its 70 year partnership with Topps

    I miss the cards I could buy with my tobacco. Those were the days. Cocaine in my Coca Cola was great too.

    I had a choice with my allowance money. Buy the whole set sold from the back of the Sporting News in 1973 or buy my set of Marvel comics like the death of Gwen Stacy and then the Green Goblin and then the first appearance of Wolverine in the Incredible Hulk along with Black Panther #1 and Iron First #1.

    I preferred buying a bunch of Marvel Comics, which there were a bunch to choose from plus back issues from almost a year ago that you could find. including the Giant Size ones then spending money on a box set of cards. I didn’t see the value of it then and I would have opened Up the Box. It was easier to buy an extra comic and put it in a bag for safe keeping.

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    Re: MLB ending its 70 year partnership with Topps

    In the 1960's Topps would issue the cards in series so if the store you usually bought your cards from bought a large quantity of cards early in the year then they would still be selling cards numbered < 350 in August. It was big news if a friend found a store that had the current series cards. I was able to complete my 1961 set late in 1961 by ordering from a dealer that had cards for $.04 each. By 1970's there were numerous dealers such as Renata Glassco that sold sets or vendor packs that advertised in Sporting News.
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    Re: MLB ending its 70 year partnership with Topps

    Quote Originally Posted by RedsBrick View Post
    How does 8-bucks for a beer at the ball park grab ya? It's all greed. It's business.
    Sounds like a good deal to me

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    Re: MLB ending its 70 year partnership with Topps

    Quote Originally Posted by PuffyPig View Post
    It’s not greed, although it is business based on supply and demand.

    But every business is entitled to maximize its profits.


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    I didn't introduce the word, just responded to another post.

    It's semantics.

    Concession prices at the ball park are over the top. It's a monopoly, so they can. And furthermore, they need to to help pay for the product on the field. The players are making insane money. The market bears it. Players might pick a contract that's $150MM for 4 years instead of $140MM over the same timeframe. Wouldn't you? Sure. Couldn't that be greed? Sure.

    Business and greed aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.

    ...and as stated in my original comment, it's business.

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    Re: MLB ending its 70 year partnership with Topps

    In 1974 the Indians 2x their average attendance by offering $.10 'beer'(3.2%) Adjusted for inflation that would be $.55 today. As to making a profit it depends on how elastic is demand will a 50% price cut lead to > 50% increase in sales?

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    Re: MLB ending its 70 year partnership with Topps

    Quote Originally Posted by SteelSD View Post
    Fleer too, actually.
    Don't forget Goudey. Some nice looking sets there too.
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    Re: MLB ending its 70 year partnership with Topps

    Quote Originally Posted by Mitri View Post
    Sounds like a good deal to me
    Amusing anecdote:

    I went to a Dodger game with friends. Parking was $30, $7.5 a person. I was low on cash, so I offered to buy the driver a beer instead of paying my share of parking, which at the time seemed like a fair deal. The cheapest beer I could find was $12 for a bottle of Bud Light.
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    Re: MLB ending its 70 year partnership with Topps

    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Sheed View Post
    Don't forget Goudey. Some nice looking sets there too.
    Oh to have a 33 Goudey set laying around.

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