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[msmemory_archive]

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.)

Comments

[artisticphoenix.livejournal.com]

That would end up hurting only the areas that came after a higher charging area, not the original high charging area.

The main concern that most sponsors of the event have is that because it is in deep winter in the East Kingdom there is a chance of a blizzard/snow storm that will affect attendance and make whatever barony/shire/area take a deep pocket loss. Their attendance figures are based upon the worst case scenario, rather than the most likely scenario, thus the figures are usually high.

[lumineaux.livejournal.com]

And our events aren't quite big enough to make "event insurance" against bad weather cost-effective. Almost, but not quite. I looked into it when I was autocrat of Mudthaw (of the huge, gorgeous $4500 site).

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Bad weather is always a worry in the East. I can think of one particular Twelfth Night (1994) when we got a foot of snow on Friday, and I and much of Carolingia bailed en masse.