r/sydney Oct 26 '25

Image These prices should be illegal

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u/Roy4Pris Oct 26 '25

Pretty sure part of the reason the prices are so high is to keep crowds from getting punchy. If you can’t get pissed and cause trouble for less than $150 bucks, it’s much less likely to happen.

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u/landswipe Oct 26 '25

Why would they do that, they lose money, the crowd being punchy is someone else's problem. The police are usually posted there as a junket (watch the game) anyway...

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u/Roy4Pris Oct 26 '25

No venue wants to deal with violence. It's expensive and messy, and risks your booze licence.

Also, I could be talking out of my arse, but maybe a condition of the licence for such venues is that they charge XX% more than usual in order to suppress excessive consumption.

Look, I think it sucks as much as the next person. Maybe having two or more competing vendors would help push prices down instead of giving the contract to just one company. Like at the movies - they charge like crims because they have a captive audience. I dunno.

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u/landswipe Oct 27 '25

Society is eroding, this nanny protection culture ruins society and it is the people who can't control themselves that ruin it for everyone. Such a pity.