The cost of............

Well the cost of wrestling. I've been exchanging a few Twitter messages recently about the price of a session and my feeling that it is already expensive enough. I think £150 for one hour is already a substantial amout for anyone to pay, so attempting to increase it is ridiculous. Of course, this isn't like a supermarket or energy company which forces its prices on customers (I never think of myself as a wrestling customer !), so I suppose individuals or groups will increase (or not) as they see fit, so really the customers will vote with their money and choose accordingly. I don't really buy (pun kind of intentional) the argument about venues needing x amount of money to make sessions viable or whatever and that if you pay £150 then the wrestler gets £50 (or however much) so therefore we should pay them more - to get paid £50 to wrestle is fine : it is something I would gladly do. Infact to be paid £50 an hour to do anything would be great !

Putting up prices would also put people off from doing sessions at all. I usually do 2 hours when I wrestle so to make an hour more expensive, will make me think twice about doing 2 hours and so I won't spend as much. It is counterproductive ! Also, there is money involved for travelling to any venue as well, so it is a bit of an expensive hobby anyway - we don't need any price hike !