is $1.50 too much for a game of pool?

Marie's husband said:
8 am to 4pm all day charge of $7 which is still a good deal, and it looks like a nice place. Still think I will pack the stick.
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That's the price to play on a Valley or Gold Crown III. Only a buck extra to play on the Diamonds! I've played till after 6PM without a word from the staff. If you visit, you'll find it one of the nicest rooms anywhere with really cold beer and friendly management. Wednesday night tournament on the big tables as well.

Lyn
 
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Price for a game of pool!

poolshooter74 said:
how much are you guys paying per game? we dont have a pool hall here, just bar boxes. if you dont use his tables, you cant be in his league. no one to give him any competition around here. i know i havent been playing as many warm up games and im sure others cut back a little since he raised it from $1.00. he must have felt the difference in his pockets but he has not budged. we also lost a couple of teams out of our league i think due to boycotting him, still no change.
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It sure the Hell is, way too much!


David Harcrow
 
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Price for pool in Arkansas

poolshooter74 said:
how much are you guys paying per game? we dont have a pool hall here, just bar boxes. if you dont use his tables, you cant be in his league. no one to give him any competition around here. i know i havent been playing as many warm up games and im sure others cut back a little since he raised it from $1.00. he must have felt the difference in his pockets but he has not budged. we also lost a couple of teams out of our league i think due to boycotting him, still no change.
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In South Arkansas, bar pool is 75/cents, nice sports bars may charge $1, but pool players don't go there much, our nice poolroom Shooters/ in Texarkana,Ar. is $4.50 an hour, and free on Tuesday's from 5:00 P.M. till closing 3:00 A.M..............

I'd fall out if I had to pay $1.50 a game for pool, or $7.00 an hour......damn!!!!! it Boy!!!!!!!:(


David Harcrow
 
I truely laughed when I read through this thread. You guys are all saying $1.50 is far to much and some of you can still play for $.50 per game. I am gonna have to move I guess because it has been $1.50 a game around my area for two years already. Even at our big league tournament every year it is $1.50 per game. I bet last year I put almost $200 into the table for the weekend tournament. :eek:
 
It ranges from .25 to .75

If I see the table costs a dollar. I won't have any part of it. I'm glad there are places that have free pool on certain days/nights around here.
 
I knew it was a bad sign when the valley's added an automatic mouth to eat dollar bills.
 
Sarnia Shorty said:
I truely laughed when I read through this thread. You guys are all saying $1.50 is far to much and some of you can still play for $.50 per game. I am gonna have to move I guess because it has been $1.50 a game around my area for two years already. Even at our big league tournament every year it is $1.50 per game. I bet last year I put almost $200 into the table for the weekend tournament. :eek:
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I guess its a Canadian thing(assuming you are from Sarnia,ON). It was a dollar about 15 years ago already, and its been $1.50 for a few years now. Around here though one company owns a huge majority of all the bar boxes and also runs the only real league so they can pretty much charge whatever they want.
 
First of all, let me say, as a consumer a buck fifty a game stinks. But, the bar is his livelihood and he cannot be faulted for trying to maximize his profit in terms of absolute dollars. He has to make a choice between the two extremes of high prices and fewer customers or lower prices and many customers.

I , personally would not go the direction he is headed because variable cost for pool are minimal and fixed costs amount to no more than depreciation thus costs are sunk and any dollars he makes on the tables goes to the contribution to the expenses of the bar as a whole.

In other words, as long as the pool players are not REDUCING his revenue
from the bar side why the hell would he raise prices for pool?

Frankly , a lot of small business owners lose it all and cannot figure out why.
Hopefully this guy will make the right adjustments and all things will be okey dokey.
 
A little much

Crap I'm still complaining about the .75. I have a pool room with 6 diamond tables that are at .75 per game. I told customers I was thinking about going up to 1.00 and they frowned even though I have the best tables in town.
 
Here in Winnipeg most of the coin tables are $1.50. a few places they are 1.25 and its been a long time since I've seen a $1 plug table. Meh what are you going to do eh. Also as much as I like free or cheap pool usually the bars that have cheap plugs or nights that they open the tables have by far the crappyest tables ever drink spills rips etc so read into that what you will

Peace vince
 
Coins are on the way out????--PAPER $$$$$

I also think that anything over $1 a game is pushing it, but maybe not if you have the best equiptment in town. After they get past a dollar the room owners should put in the paper bill acceptors, that way they can give discounts ,as someone already said, $1.50 a game or 4 games for a 5 dollar bill, 8 games for a 10 spot, maybe 20 for 20? similar to the deals in the jukebox, but catering to pool players who play alot, meanwhile stabbing people a buck and a half for a game or two. The thirty minute date games, etc. JMO

ADDED I was in MN 15 years ago and it was a dollar a game then 1995??
 
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cueandcushion said:
Wow.

People boycotting places over a quarter? No wonder this sport is dying.
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Like I said earlier, the same people who complain about the cost of a game of pool will belly up to the bar and spend $3.50 for a bottle of Bud and not say a word! Sad situation.

Lyn
 
cueandcushion said:
Wow.

People boycotting places over a quarter? No wonder this sport is dying.
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Actually , this has nothing to do with pool. If this product was a widget instead of pool there are buyers, called marginal buyers, at each current price level who would drop out of the market at a price increase
for both financial and psychological reasons. These customers are not really boy-cotters but it is easier to say you're a boy-cotter than to say
you're priced out of the market.

I think that pool is very price sensitive
because you put hard money for the exact amount into the machine
yourself, which makes you very aware. At the bar you throw a 20 onto the bar for your shot of Jack an don't really pay attention or care that it cost 3 bucks yesterday but 3 and a 1/4 today. I could go on and on about the bar owners who have their head up their ass for thinking they
can increase net profit by increasing the price of something like the pool table. But this is no longer pool related.
 
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I couldn't afford to play in a room or bar that charges that much per game. I'd go broke unless I was gambling heavy and playing a sucker.
 
cueandcushion said:
Wow.

People boycotting places over a quarter? No wonder this sport is dying.
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wow is right....whatever you are charging per hour for your 9 footers add $2.50 to it and see if anyone complains.

I'm lucky enough to live somewhere where play is cheap....let's say I can practice on a 9 footer for $4 an hour....if it went up to $6.50, not a real biggee to me, but MOST wouldn't like it. Sure, a quarter "sounds" cheap, but 10 extra of them (or more) per hour can add up.
 
It's been $1 per game around here for at least a year.

My Buddy in San Francisco owns (2) very busy Bars and has been
charging $1.50 or more per game at least 3 yrs. and his tables are
in constant play from opening to closing.

He clears $500 - $700 per table per week from a total of (6) tables.

I am wishing I owned those tables.
 
Str8PoolPlayer, Im surprised your friend has pool that cheap. San Francisco is supposed to have some of the highest real estate in the country. Glad he is making it tho.....

I guess this thread just threw me for a loop when I first read it. I have played for $2 per game at plenty of places over the years; so to see Cowboy complaining about 75 cents a game just didn't register with me. I just figured most places charge well over $1 by now.
 
$1.50 per barbox game? No thanks.

At 5 minutes for a game of 8-ball, your paying 18 dollars an hour for that table. Ouch!

At that rate, buying a table for your home starts to make sense. Saving all those quarters, money for bar food and drinks, and league fees, leaves a lot of money for a home table purchase.

My 9' table paid for itself a long time ago.

Just food for thought.
 
the barbox I play on is free at a tattoo shop which is very cool, At $1.50 a game with good players geeze that would be brutal like greens fees at Pebble Beach,
 
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