They are happy with fans exactly insofar as they yield profit. But they also
need to protect what they get from other fans. Hence no sharing unless it
leads to more total spending. If they could figure out how to charge fans
for remembering the game (or the logo or the mascot or the faces of their
fellow fans), they would.
I hope no one still confuses an organization's being organized as a
not-for-profit corporation with its not being run for profit.
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:40 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/8/14 Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net>et>:
> When you're competing with your own fans,
you're ... in trouble.
>
http://www.tampabay.com/news/article1027680.ece Heh, but is there any basis whatever that the
events occurring a football
game are of social or education value?
Historical, frequently. I believe our coverage of American football on
en:wp is quite extensive.
It's that they feel they can take such an openly hostile attitude to
their own customers.
- d.
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