ticket pricing

[Jannette]

However, there is an elephant in the room here: What price do we
charge for children's tickets? The site capacity is fixed at 499
people, and our budget assumes that 479 of these will be paying full
ticket price.
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If I understand this right, does the organizer team calculate with a final ticket price that is below £100. In addition would you like to charge for camper vans.
As far I can see this, is the final price not fixed yet.

Since the team can offer alcohol vendor an attractive premise on which they can sell there products during festival time, could the organizer team
charge the vendors for access in particular good spots on the premises?
The team could consider to promote and sell non alcoholic drinks like Club Mate, juice etc. in unique container.

x Jane



Ben Blundell 26 May 2012
"We cant offer free tickets so looking after the welfare of our volunteers seems quite important."

Russ Garrett 3 June 2012
"If we accept camper vans (which we probably will), they will be ticketed."

Paul Dart 8 Dec 2011
Approximate budget/pricing:
We want to keep it under £100/ticket.
250 people @ £100 = £25k

[Russ Garrett]

On 17 June 2012 21:57, Jannette <mensch...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> If I understand this right, does the organizer team calculate with a final ticket price that is below £100. In addition would you like to charge for camper vans.
> As far I can see this, is the final price not fixed yet.

The current estimate for the ticket price is £95. You can see the budget here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ajm2o7l_HK6RdGVrT0k4bVFDZ1VwNkNRd2ppVHB1TEE

> Since the team can offer alcohol vendor an attractive premise on which they can sell there products during festival time, could the organizer team
> charge the vendors for access in particular good spots on the premises?

We will be selling our own alcohol. The ticket price includes a fairly
modest profit on the bar.

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Russ Garrett
ru...@garrett.co.uk

[Alison W]

> The current estimate for the ticket price is £95. You can see the budget here:

That sheet doesn't take account of what we _might_ need to do for
speakers (discount/whatever) but, it also dawns on me, that we
c/should be thinking about increasing the £2k if we can to cover such
things.

Also, on the numbers thing, if this 499 limit is due to *all*
licencing, not just the bar, then maybe we should consider inserting a
nominal 'boundary' which includes the bar and music areas but not all
the in-use area (ie can definitely exclude the camping area) and that
499 limit would then (per motorcycles) only need applying to that
smaller area, and we could lift the number of attendees -overall-.
This could let us not need to count under-18s/16s in the
499-area-count.

A possible?

[alex]

I made a small point about the ticket prices to the event team before
- I think everyone should pay for a ticket. In my experience if
people are interested in the event they are happy to pay the same as
everyone else. E.g. a well known Guardian science columnist is a
dorkcamp regular and insists on buying a ticket and covering his own
expenses. Another well known science blogger who would also go down
well spoke at HAL2001 before he became famous.

cheers

alex

[Russ Garrett]

On 17 June 2012 22:14, Alison W <ali...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That sheet doesn't take account of what we _might_ need to do for
> speakers (discount/whatever)

We're assuming that any free tickets for speakers would be contained
within the 20 unpaid tickets (They would only get day tickets.)

> Also, on the numbers thing, if this 499 limit is due to *all*
> licencing, not just the bar, then maybe we should consider inserting a
> nominal 'boundary' which includes the bar and music areas but not all
> the in-use area (ie can definitely exclude the camping area) and that
> 499 limit would then (per motorcycles) only need applying to that
> smaller area, and we could lift the number of attendees -overall-.
> This could let us not need to count under-18s/16s in the
> 499-area-count.

There's nothing theoretically wrong with that idea, but in practice
the licensing authority would likely ask us to be sure about the
capacity of that area by counting people in/out. Which would be
infeasible.

This is why tying the licensed capacity to tickets sold is useful.

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Russ Garrett
ru...@garrett.co.uk

[Anish Mohammed]

looking forward to tickets going on sale ;)

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Anish Mohammed
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/anishmohammed
@anishmohammed