Cropredy 2011 tickets available in December

[Paul]

I would, but I would inevitably lose them. Like the disastrous year of 2008. Can you insure against stupidity?

Isn't that what insurance is all about?  

Au Contraire, most insurance seems only to cover virtually impossible eventualities, like stuff being nicked from inside locked rooms guarded by rural police constables. If you put something down and somebody walks off with it, you are buggered.

Only if you bend over looking for it.  

Paul

[Shane (Skirky)]

Assuming a ticket price of £80, the net-of-VAT price is £68.09, and 20% VAT for 2011 = £81.70.
Unless there is an early-bird discount thrown in, you'll save the princely sum of £1.70 on an £80 ticket!

If we're assuming things, let's assume that they hold the ticket price at a nice round eighty quid and absorb the ballpark £1.70 themselves when the rate goes up in the new year. If 2,000 people take them up on the offer, that's about £3,400 both in the bank and saved against future costs. It's fuzzy maths, but what I like to call 'making things up' has never been an exact science...    

[Goaty]

I suspect the premium would be the cost of a further ticket anyway....or more, possibly.

So it would be stupid to insure against stupidity

You CAN insure against your own stupidity, or even against your own wilful negligence if my experience over the last five years is anything to go by

I can't justify buying a ticket in December, money will run out next year and unless I secure an income there will be no Cropredy for me.

[Nick Reg]

I suspect the premium would be the cost of a further ticket anyway....or more, possibly.

So it would be stupid to insure against stupidity

You CAN insure against your own stupidity, or even against your own wilful negligence if my experience over the last five years is anything to go by

I can't justify buying a ticket in December, money will run out next year and unless I secure an income there will be no Cropredy for me.

Buying on credit card gives free insurance , and so the premium cant go up.

[Chris]

Not for losing the ticket, it doesn't!

[Nick Reg]

Not for losing the ticket, it doesn't!

Didnt you see the Barclaycard advert where Rowan Atkinson knocked something valuable off the side of an inflatable boat into the sea? Thats losing something isnt it?

[Chris]

Haven't seen it - don't watch much ITV, and don't have Sky either.

[jaypeter (Peter)]

Oh blast. I bet it was insured you know. Household or credit card. I never thought of it.

[Ollie]

Prices released today in the newsletter - http://www.fairportconvention.com/downloads/FairportNews%20Nov10v1.pdf

Full Weekend Ticket
Before Jan 1st - £88.40
Jan 1st to May 31st - £90
June 1st to July 31st - £95
After July 31st - £100

Friday & Saturday
Before Jan 1st - £78.55
Jan 1st to May 31st - £80
June 1st to July 31st - £85
After July 31st - £90

Saturday only
Before Jan 1st - £58.94
Jan 1st to May 31st - £60
June 1st to July 31st - £65
After July 31st - £70

Camping
Weekend
Before Jan 1st - £34.40
After Jan 1st - £35
Friday & Saturday
Before Jan 1st - £29.47
After Jan 1st - £30

[Chris]

Will anyone pay £70 just for Saturday, I wonder?....

Also, in the blurb, it states that pre-VAT rise tickets are available until 14 December, but the price list shows Pre-Jan 1 date for those prices. I wonder whether you can order right up until Jan 1, but you must order by Dec 14 to receive tickets in time for Christmas?

I reckon the latter, personally, but it isn't clear.

[David W]

Pretty close to pricing me out of a full weekend with camping - they will need to pull out an amazing Thursday for me

[Jim]

big old hike next year don't you think?
 what was It last year £75?

[Ollie]

big old hike next year don't you think?
 what was It last year £75?

£85 Jim, the year before was £78, and the year before that was £72. Still, tickets have reached 3 figures. Camping has also gone up a fiver.

I'm inclined to agree with David. Not sure we can afford £215 for the weekend for the two of us.  

[Malcolm]

Assume 2 people x 3 days x five beers per day @ £3 per pint = £90
ditto re barn brekkies 2 x 3 x £4 = £24
ditto re two meals a day/night 2 x 2 x 3 x £6 = £72
One night at Bloxham to avoid rush hour traffic coming up from Hants = £14 (beer and evening meal not counted)

Grand Total = £200 plus tickets = £415

Mmmm.....

[davidmjs]

I'm going to say, thanks, but no thanks.  And then probably go to another festival which will cost me more....

For me, for once, it really will depend on the lineup.  Like everybody else I'll be there in 2012, but it will need to really surprise me to get me along there this year.

[jOhN]

Hmmmm, difficult one for me, I don’t know what will be happening work wise after June next year, so it will be a late decision whether to go or not.

Personally there is also another factor to take into consideration, there’s another festival 60+ miles closer & for not much more than a top price Saturday only ticket I have the choice of 5 stages & nearly 50 bands!!

The only downside is I won't get to see all you lovely people!!!

[davidmjs]

Personally there is also another factor to take into consideration, there’s another festival 60+ miles closer & for not much more than a top price Saturday only ticket I have the choice of 5 stages & nearly 50 bands!!

(Sorry, probably missed this elsewhere, but...) which is...?

[jOhN]

Won't be listed on here, it's Download at Castle Donington!!

[davidmjs]

Won't be listed on here, it's Download at Castle Donington!!

Ahhhh...right  

[Jim G]

Assume 2 people x 3 days x five beers per day @ £3 per pint = £90

Take your own beer Malcolm that'll save £60. I must say I love that Cropredy allow that - some festivals make you feel like a criminal and frisk you on entry just so they can rip you off once you get in.

Long live Cropredy!