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bstone

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League Lineage Fees
« on: September 17, 2007, 01:49:30 PM »
on mnbowlingforums.com we've been discussing lineage fees and how they vary around our area. we see a range from $9.50 to $14.00 for 3 game prime time leagues. just wondering what other areas of the U.S & the world are paying...
our open play rates in the area top out about $5 a game...

thanks for replies in advance,
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someguyintucson

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Re: League Lineage Fees
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2007, 10:40:59 PM »
About $10.75 per night here in Tucson for lineage. Open play rates are generally $2.75 per game or less.
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60bowler

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Re: League Lineage Fees
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2007, 10:49:35 PM »
Ours is $10.75 for three games.  I bowl at a 16 lane house in So Cal.
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shelley

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Re: League Lineage Fees
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2007, 11:09:07 PM »
$9.75 for a 30-week season, goes down a quarter for each two additional weeks up to 36 weeks.  Open play starts at $3.50 during weekday afternoons, I believe, and goes up at throughout the evening and also on weekends.  I think it tops out at $4.50 on, say, Friday and Saturday nights.  League bowlers can bowl for $2/game and $2.50 on weekend nights.

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Hook

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Re: League Lineage Fees
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2007, 09:40:24 AM »
$6.75 per night for lineage here in NY.
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Goof1073

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Re: League Lineage Fees
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2007, 09:43:30 AM »
Our lineage is also $10.75 per person (112 man league).
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Re: League Lineage Fees
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2007, 09:46:15 AM »
Ours is $12.75 a night for all leagues in the house.  Columbia MD.
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Re: League Lineage Fees
« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2007, 09:49:55 AM »
In the Netherlands we pay 10 euro (about 13.50 USD) for 4 games per person
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Re: League Lineage Fees
« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2007, 12:12:56 PM »
$12 per night 3 game series.
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Re: League Lineage Fees
« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2007, 04:15:09 PM »
I pay $9 a night to bowl, prize fund included. whoppin $40 back at the end of the season.... might as well just save me the trouble and not have a prize fund...If I could get the league to add just $2 to the prize fund we could bowl for $650 payout for 1st.. but thats a whole nother subject....

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FAILURE IS FEEDBACK. AND FEEDBACK IS THE BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS THAT GOT DIGESTED!

Ten pin?????? Where?? I throw a BUZZSAW there is NUTTIN left on the deck...

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Member of the FOS, if there happens to be a 9 pin standing just toss a saw and cut it down~~!

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Re: League Lineage Fees
« Reply #10 on: September 19, 2007, 04:26:18 PM »
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Does anyone else beside Me think Lineage is getting too much? All Leagues have to raise their fees to compensate for the Lineage. When will it stop?


When the cost of electricity, labor, maintenance, parts, insurance, and everything else stops going up.  Just because it's a bowling center doesn't mean it's special as a business.  It has to make a profit and if the cost of doing business goes up, they have to make the money up somewhere.

Don't get me wrong, I wish it cost $5 like it did when I bowled YABA 20 years ago.  That's just not the way it is.

Or it has to do with Bowling Alleys not being able To compete with Online alleys where You throw Virtual balls at virtual Pins.  I'm not Sure.

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Re: League Lineage Fees
« Reply #11 on: September 19, 2007, 06:15:09 PM »
Reporting from Columbia, SC . . . our league dues are $10/week, with $8.75 going to the house (AMF).  We are a 'trophies-only' league but do also pay for members' dinners at the banquet.  We also run a weekly 50/50 drawing to supplement league income.
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Re: League Lineage Fees
« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2007, 07:58:04 PM »
$14.85 for lineage here in northern california.  one league that i used to bowl in charged $18 per week and people would complain about the small prize fund.  i would then make a comment like do the math.  if you want more prize fund, you will have to pay a higher league fee.  i would then get blank looks
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JohnP

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Re: League Lineage Fees
« Reply #13 on: September 19, 2007, 08:45:10 PM »
I started bowling in an AJBC league in N. C. in 1962.  Games were 35 cents each or 3 for a dollar.  Adult league fees were around 2 dollars.  On the Wednesday afternoon special you could rent a lane for a dollar an hour.  And gas was 29.9 cents a gallon.  Gas has gone up by a factor of ten, why shouldn't bowling?  It's called inflation.  After graduating college in 1968 I entered the workforce at a salary of $9,600 a year.  Graduates with the same degree today are making $60,000+.  Again, inflation.  Get used to it, it's not about to stop.  --  JohnP
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Buzzhead

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Re: League Lineage Fees
« Reply #14 on: September 19, 2007, 10:41:49 PM »
Central Pa here, and the owner just bought a 50K lane machine too, all other leagues went up except ours, maybe because of it being second shift...... ???

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FAILURE IS FEEDBACK. AND FEEDBACK IS THE BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS THAT GOT DIGESTED!

Ten pin?????? Where?? I throw a BUZZSAW there is NUTTIN left on the deck...

Proud MEMBER of the FOS!!
Member of the FOS, if there happens to be a 9 pin standing just toss a saw and cut it down~~!
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