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Color me Old Codger. I'm having sticker shock today over the prices of Twelft [sic] Night and Birka. Yes, I know that each is charging just a smidge more than a first-run movie ticket, and I couldn't eat anywhere nicer than Friendly's for a sum like that feast fee, but I am unused to these numbers - or to the notion that advance registration doesn't give a discount.

(If anyone knows for sure that the 12th Night feast is sold out, let me know so I won't bother sending an onboard reservation.)

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[dreda.livejournal.com]

Huh. In the Council Minutes I have to hand for 2007, I see:
February - $7788
June - $6212
September - $5909
October - $5320

One event (K&Q Rapier in January) made ~$200, and the others in those minutes all lost money. Small sums, as you correctly point out, but when was the last time we had one of those big events?

I'm not being snippy - I'm just genuinely curious as to how these things are supposed to work and how they are actually working. (And, as further caveat, in today's economy I consider $5000 to be a couple thousand. Less, if the dollar continues down the toilet...)

[jducoeur]

Okay, difference of definition. Keep in mind, I think of our bank balance as quite large, because it *did* used to be "a couple of thousand" in the literal sense. (And that was a huge increase at the time.)

But those apparent declines in 2007 are, I believe, largely illusory. You can check with Rowan, but I'm pretty sure that what she reports is *uncommitted* funds -- that is, money that we are free to spend over and above what we've committed to event budgets. So when we get close to an expensive event like Frosty Revels, it's quite common to see swings of one or two thousand dollars. I suspect that the numbers will swing up again once that event is totalled out.

(As for when we last had a big event that made money: my recollection was that we made out reasonably well from Canterbury. Again, feel free to check, but I thought our split was still a decent amount...)