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I don't think they should be using 'Promo Codes' at all to sell season passes. It's sketchy and easy way to cause trouble for themselves.
If you are going to offer comp passes or highly discounted passes, then you should be dealing directly with some sales supervisor at Alterra. For college passes, you should be required to show a student ID and maybe even a copy of fall class schedule.
No.
They want to make buying passes easy, not hard.
Promo Codes = Cheesy
This discussion is hilarious. Especially the whining. Wow
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x2. From beginning to end this whole thread has really delivered.Quote:
Originally Posted by gretch6364
This thread is Iconic. I mean Ikonich. Iconick. Ikonick. Icahnick. Icahnich. Ikonik. Iconik. Ikonic. Still trying to figure out the naming origin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo
It used to be the case that when a fellow skier got a hookup of some kind the peanut gallery would cheer.
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Originally Posted by Missus Tarantino
Ikon sold about 350,000 passes last year.
Source: Alterra
Hey, those deplorables are my best friends, coworkers, employers, girlfriend, bandmates, roommates, neighbors, and most trusted ski partners. I shovel my own driveway and wipe my own ass. I also get paid to clean toilets some days. Some days I do it for free. Rest assured I, as Bunion kindly alluded to, am card-carrying rabble, solely concerned with Powder Skiing and Good Times at All Costs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benny Profane
I stand by my post: we've all seen our share of gapers (and all been one here or there), but from my anecdotal experience many of the Ikoners new to our mountain last winter were in a league of their own. Sorry if that was you, reader, but it probably wasn't. Maybe we're just spoiled as fuck out here without the city masses, idk. Things have changed and always will, it was just a different crowd this year, and in a small place it kind of stands out.
Whatever. We're all still gonna have a ton of great skiing this winter; sure know I will and I hope you, reader, do too. As Jongo said, no one really cares how you get here, we really only care if you came here to ski and seem like a decent human. If you don't like here, please be polite and don't shout about it at apres, over dinner, and in the lift line.
K I'm done. Sorry to distract from the Econ discussion. See you all this winter!! :D
Seriously though if yer on here yer probably decent. Let's go skiing.
I wonder if it will make financial/crowd control sense for alterra to offer a "Ikon Brokeboi Pass" that just covers Brighton, Solitude, Winter Park, Copper, Mammoth, and a few random east coast resorts at a lower rate. Or for Big Sky, JHMR, and Altabird to release their own megapass to try and band together without the pitfalls of being on a real megapass. Think there should be room in the market for Ikon/Epic to have competition in the form of high caliber destination resorts banding together and claiming to offer a superior product, rather than the current system of 2 walmart passes and a handful of mom and pop resorts.
I will accept the argument that it is scary for a resort owner to be the only major resort not on a megapass, but if Alta/Snowbird/JHMR/Big Sky pulled out and banded together, it reduces the incentive for people who don't live in Denver or Bay Area to buy either Epic or Ikon, and there are definitely plenty of east coast skiers who only use their Ikon Passes for travel to those mountains.
^^^ There used to be a pass (Ski the Rockies) Aspen Highlands, Big Sky, JHMR & Taos, probably early 80s.
there is a pass that Jackson, BS, Alta/Bird, Highlands, Taos, Squaw/Alpine and others were and still are on. It's called Mountian Collective. Works very well with no cap on # of days.
2 days at each.Quote:
Originally Posted by stayhighstaydry
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Originally Posted by jhyatt
After your two ( 2 ) "free" days, subsequent days are 1/2 ( half ) of that days price. So, no cap on # of days.Quote:
Originally Posted by stayhighstaydry
At a price well under an Ikon pass it can work out very well. Do your own math.
Do your own fucking maths...Quote:
Originally Posted by stayhighstaydry
That should be a thread.
$509 for MC currently, vs $750 for Ikon base, although MC comes with no blackout dates. when you factor in the cost of 50% off window rates for longer trips, I don't think the math works out as well, especially since window rates have gone significantly up either to incentivize ikon pass sales or make up for cannibalization of multi-day lift pass sales. unless you're doing a grand road trip linking MC destinations, or if you have so many airline miles to burn that you can book a bunch of Friday-Monday flights rather than fewer longer trips, it just seems like Ikon is hard to beat.Quote:
Originally Posted by stayhighstaydry
MC is dying a slow death as people from major east coast cities pick megapasses instead. MC was a good alternative to Epic Pass for people who preferred those mountains, but you can get more of those mountains on Ikon.
MC is still a good deal. For us it works out to almost the exact same price as the Ikon. Ikon is simply more convenient. We are going to work around the blackouts by skiing at Copper on the MLK Sunday.
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This thread has made my Loveland pass just seem better and better. I'll happily settle for three extra free days at Monarch, Sunlight, Powder Mountain and Whitefish, Castle, Whitewater, Bridger, Schwietzer and Stevens, White Pass, Mission Ridge. Also let's not forget the new terrain at Cooper with nearby apres and accommodations in Leadville, a place where poaching hot tubs requires commitment and a sporting openness to risk.
the Ikon Pass will leave the anti resorts even more untracked (although LL itself never stays untacked anymore)
Thats a damn good perk.Quote:
I'll happily settle for three extra free days at Monarch, Sunlight, Powder Mountain and Whitefish, Castle, Whitewater, Bridger, Schwietzer and Stevens, White Pass, Mission Ridge.
All I got for my 1500 clams is priority parking in a lot I will never use.
The makings of an epic(tm) roadtrip.Quote:
Whitefish, Castle, Whitewater, Bridger, Schwietzer and Stevens, White Pass, Mission Ridge.
it's just analytics. be interesting to see if it's around 5-10 yrs out.
^^^ so fitting love it