Parking up $2.00 Weekdays

[Soxfest]

$25 on weekdays, $23 on weekends

 

http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/cws/ballpa...tent=tailgating

 

JR beyond greedy IMO!

Edited February 26, 2012 by Soxfest

[ChiliIrishHammock24]

Mjaybe im just drunk, but haven;t I heard that eh Sox have the most expensive team-sanctioned parking in the majors?

[caulfield12]

Cue Dick Allen/Greg responses (albeit Greg doesn't park much in Chicago these days)....ridiculous.

 

Sometimes I really believe the operating White Sox business model was developed by someone who cares very little at all about middle class and poor White Sox fans, lol.

 

Perhaps they've done studies that show 80% of the fans who go to weekday games are relatively well-to-do Chicagoans, whereas at least 50% of the fans on weekends/fireworks nights are families and more casual/price-sensitive fans coming from out of town?

[max power]

Its just economics. They charge what they think will make them the most money. They don't care at all about middle class or poor fans. Why would they? That's not how successful businesses are run.

[greg775]

25 dollars to park for a Sox-Royals game. What a joke.

Or Sox-Mariners.

[GoodAsGould]

Yeah, thats bogus as hell.....

[MiddleCoastBias]

Folks, that isn't on JR or the Sox- that reflects the changes to the City budget. The City of Chicago has implemented a congestion fee of an additional fee of $2 on weekdays this year. And if you want to say that the parking is a private fund, the recreation tax has also increased this year so I feel it's a fair business practice for the stadium to mirror the increased cost of the city parking to offset the increased tax they are charged.

[TheChrisSamsa]

Folks, that isn't on JR or the Sox- that reflects the changes to the City budget. The City of Chicago has implemented a congestion fee of an additional fee of $2 on weekdays this year. And if you want to say that the parking is a private fund, the recreation tax has also increased this year so I feel it's a fair business practice for the stadium to mirror the increased cost of the city parking to offset the increased tax they are charged.

 

This is exactly correct. Had parking prices stayed the same, it essentially would have been a reduction in price.

[Dick Allen]

Its pretty easy to park for free around USCF.

[Brian]

Skokie Swift to Red Line for me.

[Steve9347]

Public transport all the way. They are going to be trying to give away those tuesday night Sox/Royals-Indians-Twins games, yet theyw ant to charge $25 to park in the lot.

 

That fee is beyond ridiculous. $25 to park a car when they have more than ample parking.

[The Beast]

Does anyone have information on that bus that operates from Oakbrook to the game? I could never find it but heard this bus exists.

[Jordan4life_2007]

$2.00!? The horror! GMAB.

[StrangeSox]

Public transport all the way. They are going to be trying to give away those tuesday night Sox/Royals-Indians-Twins games, yet theyw ant to charge $25 to park in the lot.

 

That fee is beyond ridiculous. $25 to park a car when they have more than ample parking.

How do you get there from lombard?

[caulfield12]

$2.00!? The horror! GMAB.

 

 

That's still almost a 10% increase.

 

Imagine if they raised the price of the Iphone4s (roughly the same amount) from $650 to $700 in order to pay Chinese factory workers $300 per month instead of the $250-275 average (per month) for a job that typically consists of 70-90 hour work weeks with no paid overtime.

 

Would you still say the same thing? As a percentage, $50 would be less of an increase and nobody in the world should have to work in a factory for a bit less than $10 per day, right?

 

Apples to oranges?

 

Still, unless you're in that top 1%, $2 still means something to a lot of people, because it ends up adding another $100-120 dollars loyal Sox fans have to pony up for what has been an inferior product now for 3 years running.

Edited February 26, 2012 by caulfield12

[southsider2k5]

Folks, that isn't on JR or the Sox- that reflects the changes to the City budget. The City of Chicago has implemented a congestion fee of an additional fee of $2 on weekdays this year. And if you want to say that the parking is a private fund, the recreation tax has also increased this year so I feel it's a fair business practice for the stadium to mirror the increased cost of the city parking to offset the increased tax they are charged.

 

This post should be the end of the thread. Thank Rahm, not JR.

[Balta1701]

This post should be the end of the thread. Thank Rahm, not JR.

Of course, one plausible response to an increase in the fees the city charges would be to rebalance the cost you charge the consumer and perhaps pass only a portion of that fee increase on.

[LittleHurt05]

That's still almost a 10% increase.

 

Imagine if they raised the price of the Iphone4s (roughly the same amount) from $650 to $700 in order to pay Chinese factory workers $300 per month instead of the $250-275 average (per month) for a job that typically consists of 70-90 hour work weeks with no paid overtime.

 

Would you still say the same thing? As a percentage, $50 would be less of an increase and nobody in the world should have to work in a factory for a bit less than $10 per day, right?

 

Apples to oranges?

 

Still, unless you're in that top 1%, $2 still means something to a lot of people, because it ends up adding another $100-120 dollars loyal Sox fans have to pony up for what has been an inferior product now for 3 years running.

 

That's not a comparable situation though. How about if the US goverment charged Apple an extra 10% tax on every Iphone4s they sold. Would you expect them to then raise the phone price 10% too? Because that is what happened here, the city of Chicago raised the tax 10% for the weekday games, and the Sox passed it on to the consumer so they don't have to lower their price.

[Balta1701]

That's not a comparable situation though. How about if the US goverment charged Apple an extra 10% tax on every Iphone4s they sold. Would you expect them to then raise the phone price 10% too? Because that is what happened here, the city of Chicago raised the tax 10% for the weekday games, and the Sox passed it on to the consumer so they don't have to lower their price.

Frankly, no, you wouldn't necessarily expect them to raise the price of the phone, because that extra $40-50 increase in the price of the phone might reduce their sales by enough so as to make more people migrate over to other phones. Apple would probably absorb part of the hit out of their "profit margin" on each phone, probably make their suppliers absorb part of the hit, etc.

 

In this case it can be passed on, because there really isn't available competition for parking/transit to these games, especially if you're coming from a direction where the trains really can't get you there without shifting multilple lines.

[Jordan4life_2007]

Way too much over-analysis going on here. It's 8 quarters. Get over it.

[The Critic]

I haven't parked at the ballpark in years, but it's still absolute bulls*** to charge 25 dollars for a parking space for a ballgame.

That said, the price of parking won't be the reason I go to fewer games this year.

[ewokpelts]

$25 on weekdays, $23 on weekends

 

http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/cws/ballpa...tent=tailgating

 

JR beyond greedy IMO!

 

 

OLD NEWS.

 

And it's not Jerry's fault. Rahm-Bo the Mayor increased parking taxes on WEEKDAYS $2 for 2012 and on...this applies to ANY lot. Including the sports venues. United center parking is now $27 and $37 on a weeknight.

[ewokpelts]

Does anyone have information on that bus that operates from Oakbrook to the game? I could never find it but heard this bus exists.

 

 

http://www.pacebus.com/sub/espd/us_cellular_express.asp

Edited February 26, 2012 by ewokpelts

[ewokpelts]

Of course, one plausible response to an increase in the fees the city charges would be to rebalance the cost you charge the consumer and perhaps pass only a portion of that fee increase on.

Sox season ticket holders got a tiny break if they paid thier 2012 parking passes off in 2011. That was all my rep said they could have done to help STHs.

 

The weekday parking at the cell/wrigley/uc is counter to typical rush hour traffic. i dont see rham-bo's logic for making the venues part of the tax aside from the fact that the sox have 7000 parking spaces, which means up to 14k a game in tax revenue.

[ewokpelts]

That's not a comparable situation though. How about if the US goverment charged Apple an extra 10% tax on every Iphone4s they sold. Would you expect them to then raise the phone price 10% too? Because that is what happened here, the city of Chicago raised the tax 10% for the weekday games, and the Sox passed it on to the consumer so they don't have to lower their price.

the sox elected to NOT increase parking on weekend games, where they get better overall attendance as well as more parking spots sold. take it for what it's worth.