# Ham-a-lama-ding-dong attempts to make more bank from the rubes... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 6, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ham-a-lama-ding-dong-attempts-to-make-more-bank-from-the-rubes/853241 "2020-05-06T01:31:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ham-a-lama-ding-dong-attempts-to-make-more-bank-from-the-rubes/853241/21 "2020-05-08T16:41:10Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Wouldn’t that have been the best place to be during horrible weather? :rolleyes: Heh. Well, being _ **inside** _ the Ark, yeah…but _ **getting to it** _ was another issue entirely. The area forecast was for heavy thunderstorms with potentially damaging hail, so I went in the opposite direction! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ham-a-lama-ding-dong-attempts-to-make-more-bank-from-the-rubes/853241/22 "2020-05-08T17:16:39Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > That’s because going to a sporting event is something a reasonably rational person would do, getting a different experience each time But this is the Ark Encounter. Getting a ticket that would cost more than going there 18 times makes no sense even if you were scientifically illiterate enough to buy that crap. > > The subject matter, well, matters. De gustibus non disputandem. Some people like museums and don’t like sports. I’m not interested in the Creation Museum, but if I were choosing between going to 18 sporting events and 18 trips to the same museum I _liked_, I’d probably choose the museum. Also, don’t discount the value to people of just supporting causes they like. If Biblical literalism is a core belief and you think the museum is a good way to spread the word, buying a $3000 pass to the museum is probably more of a charitable donation to a cause you support than an up-front purchase of future tickets. I have season tickets to musical theater shows. We have seats in the front row of the hoi polloi section. The people who sit 5 feet closer than we do pay like 5x as much for their tickets. They’re not doing it because sitting 5 feet closer is worth that much more. They’re doing it because they want to support the institution of musical theater. We have an annual pass to the zoo. There are annual passes that cost 100 times as much as the one we have. The people who buy those are doing so because they want to support the zoo, not because whatever perks they get above the normal annual pass are worth $15,000 a year. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ham-a-lama-ding-dong-attempts-to-make-more-bank-from-the-rubes/853241/23 "2020-05-08T18:13:33Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Wouldn’t that have been the best place to be during horrible weather? :rolleyes: > [@blondebear](#): > > Heh. Well, being _ **inside** _ the Ark, {…} Well, if your desire was to be in a boat shaped, non-floating, building then Ham’s ‘’‘Ark’‘’ fits the bill . . . not drowning in a flood on the other hand… CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ham-a-lama-ding-dong-attempts-to-make-more-bank-from-the-rubes/853241/24 "2020-05-09T05:38:23Z")
I thought this was a **Becky** thread. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2020, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ham-a-lama-ding-dong-attempts-to-make-more-bank-from-the-rubes/853241/25 "2020-05-10T06:21:21Z")
I’m living in an Ark. Animals and grand-wreks come 2×2 around these here parts. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2020, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ham-a-lama-ding-dong-attempts-to-make-more-bank-from-the-rubes/853241/26 "2020-05-10T21:03:27Z")
> [@gdave](#): > > But I’m with **Isosleepy** here. There doesn’t seem to be any deception involved here. A very clear offer with very clear terms is being made. If you don’t want to spend $3000 for a lifetime pass to the Creation Museum, I certainly don’t blame you - I don’t either. But I also wouldn’t spend $3000 for season tickets for a sports team, and I don’t recall anyone Pitting a sports franchise for fleecing “rubes” for charging them far more than that for a mere single season pass. I feel there may be a little deception here in the implied promise that the park will remain open long enough for a lifetime pass to have value. Ham has stated the park has been in financial trouble since before the current medical crisis. I think it’s likely that some of the people who buy these lifetime passes won’t even be able to use them the twenty times it would take for them to break even. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ham-a-lama-ding-dong-attempts-to-make-more-bank-from-the-rubes/853241.md?page=1)