There’s a Bass Pro Shop about 1 hr from where I live. A mile further there’s a basketball stadium where an NBA team plays. Whenever I go to basketball games at this arena I always park at Bass Pro.
I park there because it’s free (the alternative is $5-$25), even though I have to walk for 10-15 minutes. There are many signs in the Bass Pro parking lot that say things like “customers only” and “no game parking.” I ignore them.
My question is this: why does Bass Pro not embrace this “problem”? Instead of shooing people away with signage why don’t they rent a van for 1-2 hours and charge people $1-$2 (I would pay up to $3) for a ride to the stadium? They could accomplish two things by doing this:
- Make a little extra cash 41 times a year (more if the Thunder make the playoffs). Although this is probably negligible considering their massive annual revenue…
- [more importantly] Create a good rapport with hundreds of people near my town by showing they care about the community.
What are your thoughts?
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Dude — I do the same thing. Surely they’ve brainstormed this in staff meetings…
One would assume…
Legal problems will eventually develop here. The OKC Thunder organization will not want Bass Pro shops making money off of their game day image, ticket sales, etc. More than likely, they will not let Bass Pro Shops on the stadium’s property. This (I assume) will limit how close the vans could actually get to the stadium. Just sayin’
True, but I think your problems would be minimal. Where does the stadium’s property begin though? 100 ft. from the stadium? Surely that’s close enough for most people…
Could be your 1st case KB…
Completely agree. We park there any time we go to Bricktown. Rather than Bass Pro get more money, what if a random group of people had a van (or two), charged $3 per person and made continuous trips from BP to the Ford Center, starting 1 hour before tipoff and going until 10 minutes after tipoff. Let’s go get rich. Or at least piss off Bass Pro.
See I think that’s where you might get into legal trouble…more from Bass Pro than the Thunder. But if you could get BP in on it I think there could be some legitimacy in doing it…
I’m not even a fancy law student and I can see legal problems written all over this.
Such cynicism people!