reads like a threat 
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Free admittance?
No tickets required then?
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Yep, no ticket required. Trying something different this year.
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Must admit I’m very surprised.
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Free admittance sounds like a good deal for customers, but how is that financially viable?
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No free pens
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Muffins @ £30
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There are commercial exhibitors (Audio Note are one) so may be they are subsidising the costs?
£45
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We are not running either the show or the forum for profit. We have a small group of trade exhibitors, which we hope will help towards forum costs going forward.
Where we are at risk is if someone earlier in the year asks for a room, then cancels months later, if we can’t find someone to take the room, then we have to pay it out of our own pockets.
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Make everyone pay in advance and make them responsible for finding their room replacement?
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It was hoped forum members would recall how these shows are put together & would remember we have to commit to filling a hotel in its entirety.
If they request a room, then cancel, it could jeopardise future show viability.
As Mav is non profit it therefore helps if members pay the hotel direct obvs.
I thought whatever was over and above what the show cost, that the excess funds would go towards possibly subsidising next years exhibitors. Especially the bigger rooms.
As it stands its a dear do.
I’d have thought the hotel would rather have more rooms/people wandering the coridors and using the bar.
We are looking at subsidising or paying for a conference room for a big system next year. We are starting from zero this year, as all the money raised by ticket sales etc went straight to the owner of the former place’s pockets.
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We are hoping for maximum capacity, and free entry gives a higher chance of more people wandering the corridors and using the bar.
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Oof.
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Is there an exhibitor and kit list?
There will be imminently, I’ll put it up here as soon as I have completed it.
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