>>13958533Awesome analogy and very relevant. AEW has a higher talent budget, roughly the same arena budget (WWE runs multiple stadium shows per year), has 3 nationally televised TV shows but continues to shoot themselves in the foot
The pictures we see of merch stands (or lack thereof) is one of those things that is so easily fixable and addressable -- and yet nobody goddamn cares, they're too busy jerking off over Meltzer stars -- that it makes it hard to feel sorry for them. If AEW isn't structuring the company around the people paying money to come to the shows and doing everything to maximize their experience......then what the motherfuck are they even doing? You'll spend millions above market value for Okada, but you draw the line at printing an extra 10k shirts and maybe having to sell them slightly over cost instead of a 3x profit......????
Even AEW fans don't defend the lack of merchandise at shows, they just make faggot comments about touching grass or sex lives.
Who gives a flying fuck about smarks at home, pirating every show and shitting up message boards and cagematch. Build the promotion in each arena and each stadium, not on Twitter. Fucks sake.
