[Sussex] Fair's idea's

[Nicholas Butler]

Alan Pope wrote:

>On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 07:38:04 +0000, Colin Tuckley <colin at tuckley.org> wrote:
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>>Alan Pope wrote:
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>>>We charged a quid each for ours. 1 pound just covered the cost (which was 84p).
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>>We have to charge a bit more than that because we use the money from selling
>>the CDs to cover the cost of renting table space at the Fair and printing
>>flyers etc..
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>I thought the idea of infopoints (originally) was not to have to pay
>for them. Given that the LUG doesn't make money and doesn't compete
>with other businesses at the fair, it's not unreasonable to ask for
>one of the spare (unallocated) tables..
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Oh dont get me wrong I asked. But the sound of people rolling on the 
floor laughing was demoralizing. Heres the point, if we get a free table 
then by rights any other non competitve group can ask the same and soon 
enough you have a hall of non traders and the BCF cant pay for the hall. 
Also if we have an unallocated table and the whole hall is booked , 
where do we go .if we dont pay for a table and another trader does, then 
they have more say and rights on the hall then we do. Id like to think 
we could get a Trader to sponsor our location or make some space on 
their stand for us since this would be beneficial to them and us. 
Finally in setting a cost on the day we can define a value to the "being 
there" and this valu ecan translate into purpose and direction which 
makes the contribution on everyones part have "additional" significance





>Cheers,
>Al.
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