Stuart talks to Alterra CEO (IKON)

[Milo Maltbie]

Not good for customers, the little guys that can't compete against Goliath and how monopolies are built. Monopolies are never good for customers or innovation.

I wish I could find all my posts on various forums when Max Pass/Epic/Ikon were starting up. When everyone was so happy that they could buy a pass with 30 resorts I was warning that it was just price fixing/monopoly market power and that it wasn't going to go well for skiers forever.

mm

 

[Milo Maltbie]

A fraction of what he'll earn by arranging a sellout of Ikon to Vail

Not gonna happen. That would not really increase their separate abilities to extract monopoly profits very much, and it would attract the attention of the FTC and the possible break up of the whole thing. Cows get fed, hogs get slaughtered.

mm

 

[Andy_ROC]

I wish I could find all my posts on various forums when Max Pass/Epic/Ikon were starting up. When everyone was so happy that they could buy a pass with 30 resorts I was warning that it was just price fixing/monopoly market power and that it wasn't going to go well for skiers forever.

mm

I mean right? I guess it's just part of the evolutionary steps of corporatizing and Disneyfying skiing.

 

[Campgottagopee]

Long live the independent ski hills!

 

[Campgottagopee]

I wish I could find all my posts on various forums when Max Pass/Epic/Ikon were starting up. When everyone was so happy that they could buy a pass with 30 resorts I was warning that it was just price fixing/monopoly market power and that it wasn't going to go well for skiers forever.

mm

Good forward thinking on this one, MM.

 

[Milo Maltbie]

I mean right? I guess it's just part of the evolutionary steps of corporatizing and Disneyfying skiing the entire economy.

FIFY

mm

 

[Tjf1967]

Well if they weren't interested in supporting the mountain then they shouldn't have purchased it.

"... milking the cash cows and starving the dogs." which is how corporatization sucks the life out of good things.

Not good for customers, the little guys that can't compete against Goliath and how monopolies are built. Monopolies are never good for customers or innovation.

Lol. Shit don't work that way.

 

[Tjf1967]

I wish I could find all my posts on various forums when Max Pass/Epic/Ikon were starting up. When everyone was so happy that they could buy a pass with 30 resorts I was warning that it was just price fixing/monopoly market power and that it wasn't going to go well for skiers forever.

mm

I think it works pretty well. Lots of people do

 

[Brownski]

I think it works pretty well. Lots of people do

Yeah, there’s definitely two sides to it. I see the appeal even though I’ve gone the homer route myself.

 

[Tjf1967]

Yeah, there’s definitely two sides to it. I see the appeal even though I’ve gone the homer route myself.

You mean the super cheap route and joined patrol.