A professional baseball team that has unsold tickets for a Friday night game cannot resell those tickets for a game the following afternoon due to the _____ characteristic of services.
A) Intangibility
B) Simultaneous production and consumption
C) Heterogeneity
D) Perishability
E) Divisibility

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The characteristic of perishability means that services cannot be stored, saved, or resold. Once the opportunity to sell the tickets for the Friday night game has passed, the tickets cannot be sold for the following afternoon's game.

A Professional Baseball Team That Has Unsold Tickets for a Friday