Blue Origin determines New Shepard ticket prices by who you are and what you can pay
From the first commercial launch of Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard spacecraft in 2021, the company has refused to reveal what its standard price is for a ticket.
Now, after five flights and fourteen passengers, one journalist has determined that the company does not appear to have a standard price, but instead determines its prices depending on who you are and what you can pay.
Blue Origin doesn’t advertise price information on its flight reservation page. Passengers say they have paid from zero to nearly $30 million. Industry insiders say Blue Origin’s ticket price is tailored to individual passengers based on a variety of factors.
“It’s not about money; it’s about who you are, your social capital, whether you align with their launch purposes. It’s kind of a package deal,” said Roman Chiporukha, cofounder of SpaceVIP, a platform that helps the wealthy book space trips, including Blue Origin’s. Blue Origin declined to discuss its pricing strategy. [emphasis mine]
How very socialist of Blue Origin, to treat people differently depending on such factors. Under this policy, people have paid from zero to $28 million per ticket.
The ticket policy itself is not illegal — as long as the price differences are not related to race, ethnicity, sex, or religion. It is just unseemly to consider a person’s wealth and status in determining a price.
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From the first commercial launch of Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard spacecraft in 2021, the company has refused to reveal what its standard price is for a ticket.
Now, after five flights and fourteen passengers, one journalist has determined that the company does not appear to have a standard price, but instead determines its prices depending on who you are and what you can pay.
Blue Origin doesn’t advertise price information on its flight reservation page. Passengers say they have paid from zero to nearly $30 million. Industry insiders say Blue Origin’s ticket price is tailored to individual passengers based on a variety of factors.
“It’s not about money; it’s about who you are, your social capital, whether you align with their launch purposes. It’s kind of a package deal,” said Roman Chiporukha, cofounder of SpaceVIP, a platform that helps the wealthy book space trips, including Blue Origin’s. Blue Origin declined to discuss its pricing strategy. [emphasis mine]
How very socialist of Blue Origin, to treat people differently depending on such factors. Under this policy, people have paid from zero to $28 million per ticket.
The ticket policy itself is not illegal — as long as the price differences are not related to race, ethnicity, sex, or religion. It is just unseemly to consider a person’s wealth and status in determining a price.
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In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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Not a very good business model. I bet they factor in your Social Credit rating as well into that price when you answer “Who you are”. Bezos is probably subsidizing this sideshow to get away from the press on the BE-4 delays.
Speaking of the BE-4, two days ago they installed a flight article engine at MSFC for commissioning tests. I do not know how long their testing will be, but I imagine it will take months for a successful commissioning.
Jay: What is your source for the BE-4 story at Marshal?
Hi Bob,
Sorry, I should have stated my source, it was on their twitter account: Blue Origin
Jay: Thank you. I think I’ll post a short update.
“your social capital,” – Yes. let’s be just like those Chinese fascists.
“Who determines my social capital?
We do
What is it based on?
That’s a secret
Hint, you shouldn’t have voted the way you did
Isn’t that secret?
Hah, hah, ROFLMAO, that’s a good one
What’s my score?
That’s a secret, but it’s not enough
How do I appeal my score?
There’s no appeal process as there is no appeal, our secret process is foolproof in its determination of your worth as a human being, you piece of human garbage”
Let me see if I can guess what Wm. Shatner paid.
Ray,
Jeff wanted Shatner’s Toupée as payment. That is the rumor…
Their monkeys; their circus. It is a rather arrogant business model.
Bob, you need to see what they’d charge you for a ticket! ?