Motley Fool: Six Flags problems easy to identify and fix

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I didn't know Jeff's last name matched his personality. J/k

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Guess you're stuck dealing with jokers like this until Six Flags calls. ;)

Did you read my post? I was stalking strictly about in-park per capita spending. If your average guest spends $10 in the park per visit, logic dictates that the more guests you attract, the more money you're going to make from in-park spending. Thus, higher attendance will get your more people who spend money in the park. And as I said in my post, SF seems to think the best way to get higher attendance is by sacrificing revenue at the gate. With in-park spending on the rise every year, that does make some amount of sense.

Your post has other flaws too. For instance, if you're talking strictly about per capita from the gate (which you are in your post), attendance has ZERO effect, season passholders aside, because it's an average. If your season passholders come more often your per caps may go down, but your revenue will (at worst) stay the same or (at best) shoot way up due to increased in-park spending. Additionally, your post completely ignores any source of revenue from within the park (which is almost exclusively what my post was talking about). So, unless I'm missing something here, your post seems a bit irrelevant to what I was saying...

-Nate
*** This post was edited by coasterdude318 2/10/2005 1:36:07 PM ***

http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2005/mft05021112.htm

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Wow, after 31 years I've never heard anyone make a joke about my name. You're comic genius! When does your show on Comedy Central start?

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about the same time that joke becomes funny

BTW my last name is Dumas