Today, the Wichita Eagle ran a story about ticket prices at the Intrust Bank Arena, in an attempt to educate their readers about the extra fees levied on some ticket purchases. While the article gave some understanding of what the charges were, I wish there was more information detailing how much of those extra charges were profits for the arena, SMG, and Sedgwick County. I would be surprised if the county didn’t receive at least a percentage of those extra profits, and I would have like to known what that percentage is. It wasn’t mentioned in the article.
Still, the convenience charges and delivery charges are not high enough to to make most of us take time off work to stand in a ticket line. The arenas, the ticket sellers and the promoters know this. Part of their job is to find as may ways to increase revenue as they can, just like my company does…just like your company does.
It’s a business, folks. If you don’t want to pay the extra fees (except for the $2/ticket facility fee, which probably goes straight to SMG as profit) you can buy your tickets at the venue’s box office. But it is not yours or my job to alter a legal business agreement that Sedgwick County commissioners had no choice, but to enter into. Commissioners Tim Norton or Karl Peterjohn can’t run the arena by themselves, any more than you or I could. That’s why we hire professional companies like SMG to do it for us.
Tags: fees, Intrust Bank Arena, profits, Sedgwick County, tickets
