BritPat Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 It's free market capitalism. They are free to charge what they want, and we are free to buy what we want. The fact people are willing to pay £7 for a drink justifies the price. Until people stop paying it, only then may the price come down. Thanks. Every drink you take in makes the ones I buy from them more expensive. And if us that buy them at the cinema stop buying them, you won't have a cinema to take your kids to. I'm sure you'll thank me in return? We seem to have a difference of opinion, It's not a free market if competition is stifled (Our drink or no drink) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voodoodanny Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 I went to that show and saw the slushes in question. What the OP fails to state is that the slushes came in large, moulded plastic Disney snow-cone cups, shaped like Disney characters; they were souveneirs in their own right. I still wouldn't buy one and they were a tad expensive I guess, but they looked fairly good quality and the kids seemed to love them. Puts a slightly different spin on things, eh? Here's a pic of the sort of thing: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj71no5GFs1qi2am8o1_500.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Sleeps Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 It's not a free market if competition is stifled (Our drink or no drink) Do you use the same logic in a pub? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritPat Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Do you use the same logic in a pub? It was YOU that claimed it was a free market Very few people use logic in pubs ! You can always go to the pub across the road if the prices are a bit steep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Sleeps Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 You can always go to the pub across the road if the prices are a bit steep. I'm sure the Arena would use the same argument. Please note; I never said it was fair. I'd stick up for anyone smuggling a drink into the Arena. I wouldn't pay £7 for one. It isn't robbery though. It is a Free Market in that they don't have a monopoly, just a trapped audience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violetwishes Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 I buy one every year for my Daughter, the cups are of various Disney characters and she likes to have something to take home as a reminder of her night out. You don't have to buy it, just dont' moan, it's a show and things do cost more than average which most people know anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voodoodanny Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 I buy one every year for my Daughter, the cups are of various Disney characters and she likes to have something to take home as a reminder of her night out. You don't have to buy it, just dont' moan, it's a show and things do cost more than average which most people know anyway. Aah, at last - someone actually armed with the facts! I've already posted on here to explain that the £7 wasn't simply for a drink, but for a robust, moulded plastic Disney character snow-cone cup, but I seem to have been totally ignored. I posted a picture link and everything! I went to that show and bought a huge drink in a regular cup for considerably less than £7, but it seems people are far too keen to grasp at half-truths and run with them at full pelt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quisquose Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Whenever I am buying spice at the Arena or at the cinema I am always reminded of this sign above the entrance to the Simpson's Ride in Universal Studios Hollywood: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r2V5mFt5vPk/SWBN-cOtKkI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/aDKcG_k-qig/s400/IMG_6951.JPG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prbplasterer Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 outrage no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnvqsos Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 just read in last nights star about a guy who took is child to see disney on ice at the arena and in the interval went to get the child a slush and they charged him £7 what would you do would you buy it ? No,no,no-asf for a refund Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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