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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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Do you know who has a great monopoly? Augusta National Club. And they don't abuse it- they're racist and sexist and probably vile in many ways, but they do not gouge. If you have an angle for a ticket to the Masters, from Augusta, you will pay very little. But no one has an angle that way.
I took my dad to practice rounds Tiger's first and second years. I spent shit tons to get the tickets, there wasn't Stubhub yet. Just some re-seller. And we stayed in some fleabag hotel. Swear to god- we were paying like $200 per night for our room, and as we pull up I see a sign on the building "Rooms $100 per week!" The town lives on what happens Masters week and otherwise is sleepy and cheap.
So you can imagine we walked through the gates ready to be flat out robbed- but sandwiches were $2. Beer $3. Masters' gear? What you would pay in any pro shop at any country club.
Get it- you couldn't leave and come back- they had us- a sandwich could be $100- a Masters' polo? $1000. We'd buy it. They didn't do that. Economic theory misses goodwill as a thing, and it is.
