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BrianCRX90

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Expensive open play
« on: June 04, 2009, 04:01:22 PM »
There is this one center I love in my area and feel more comfortable in it then any bowling alley but the prices are ridiculously stupid. $4.00 on weekdays before 6 pm and it's 4.50 on weeknights and on weekends it's 5.50.

I realize that some of you may pay that much anyways because of the area you live in but to me it's robbery. Even if your a league bowler it's still 2.50 which is outrageous and it's 3.00 on weekends. How are you supposed to develop your game or get people to bowl at an alley with stupid prices like these? Also, fyi this alley I went to I got a ball drilled there and tried it out on a Friday night and hardly anyone was there in a 50+ lane house. Only a 10 lane league and a few other people were bowling. This is Friday at 7pm. I go to my local house with is 4 times cheaper with 40 lanes and you are always on a waiting list.

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Re: Expensive open play
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2009, 12:11:00 AM »
Weekends here it's $5 a game past like 6 PM. It's $26 an hour. There is a waiting list quite often on Fridays and Saturdays. Oh and shoes are $3.75 at all times.
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blacknois

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Re: Expensive open play
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2009, 12:12:39 AM »
where i work, its 3.25 a game after 5:30 and weekends, 2.50 a game during the day, 1.75 shoe rental, 18.95 an hour
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Re: Expensive open play
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2009, 12:22:41 AM »
Here in L.A. AMF has revamped the league bowler program. We get $1.69 a game practice and 7.50 for the last 2 hours of business every day.
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Re: Expensive open play
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2009, 12:36:08 AM »
$60 a month VIP package.  At that level you can bowl as long as they have lane availability.
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River700

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Re: Expensive open play
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2009, 02:51:56 AM »
My home center here in Coeur D A'lene Idaho, has open play rates of $3.25 a game and $3.25 for shoes, then on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays after 9 pm is $0.99 a game
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Re: Expensive open play
« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2009, 03:29:51 AM »
I joined a summer league and bowl for only $.49 a game all summer long.Kind of cheap considering I live in New York State.The average game here is about $3.00 a game...give or take depending on the center you go to.My center is pretty good about giving reasonable rates to it's VIP bowlers even during off season times.They also have dollar nights on tuesday and wednesday nights all year where everything in the snack bar and the games itself are all one dollar.Unfortunately not the beer though
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michelle

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Re: Expensive open play
« Reply #7 on: June 05, 2009, 12:16:47 PM »
Do you complain this much about the increases that have occurred through the years for Stars, Rangers or Cowboys games?  

$2.50 a game is hardly outrageous...are there places that are cheaper?  Yeah, but there are many more that will cost people the regular walk-in rate for a league bowler.  

All this thread does is reinforce the notion that bowlers are CHEAP!
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tenpin477

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Re: Expensive open play
« Reply #8 on: June 05, 2009, 01:05:32 PM »
And that my friends is why I never pay by the game.

I go to my local center to practice, only during the week and in the afternoon usually. I get half an hour for 8.50, and I get between 4 and 5 games in.
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Smash49

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Re: Expensive open play
« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2009, 02:55:30 PM »
Michelle I relate.

When I lived in Irving I was a Dallas Desperados season ticket holder and had been for years.  I paid $18 a ticket for the arena football tickets.  The seats were at the edge of the end zone on the lower level.  I get my bill for the next year and boom! an increase of 64%.  I called the cowboys office and all they could tell me was "Jerry thinks he can get that for the seats".  Jerry Jones never filled the arena even when he had $5 tickets!  Guess what no Desperados this year.  

Everyone...

It's strange but heres what I can tell you.  The cost of doing business in bowling is astronomical.  Resurface a 24 lane center = $15000. Synthetic lanes install $100,000 if you do that. New Pins for a 24 lane center 50 cases of pins x $129 a case or $6450.  Lane machine = Kegel refurb $15000.  Scoring system replacement $135,000 includes new flat panels.  Take the average home electric bill and multiply it by 10.  Labor and cleaning supplies etc, etc..... oh machine parts.... air conditioning servicing....

How many lines of bowling do you have to have happen to recover the bills.  Figure this, the average league of 20, 4 man teams equals 80 bowlers.  80 x $9 lineage = $720.  If a center could do that 5 nights a week that would be $3600.  $3600 x 32 weeks = $115,200  That is not average!  Open bowling helps a great deal.

Sure there are other areas that make money but...

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Re: Expensive open play
« Reply #10 on: June 05, 2009, 03:00:37 PM »
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Even if your a league bowler it's still 2.50 which is outrageous and it's 3.00 on weekends.


not really. those are pretty good prices.
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Re: Expensive open play
« Reply #11 on: June 05, 2009, 03:05:07 PM »
around 3bux is alright under 2bux is pretty nice
over 3 is just gay
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Re: Expensive open play
« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2009, 03:08:26 PM »
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around 3bux is alright under 2bux is pretty nice
over 3 is just gay


I did not know that costs had orientations...wow, this site continues to teach me things that have been left off the agenda.
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Re: Expensive open play
« Reply #13 on: June 05, 2009, 03:20:17 PM »
i bowled for free..  WII bowling...
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Re: Expensive open play
« Reply #14 on: June 05, 2009, 06:45:32 PM »
Salisbury,VIB league 14.00 a week and 21 free games any time a lane is free!!!!!What a great deal.
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