[Projectleiding] Draft: Ticketpricing @ MCH2021

[Niels Hatzmann]

Hi,

I would add at least one example where you have a normal result instead of a loss. And one example where the number of visitors is considerably lower. 

Just to be fair and honest to yourself. 

cheers,

Niels

> On 31 Oct 2020, at 17:15, Attilla de Groot via Projectleiding <projectleiding at lists.ifcat.org> wrote:
> 
> This is the e-mail that I would like to send out to the orga-list. Let me know what you think on this.
> 
> ======================
> Hi All,
> 
> As you have been able to read in our blog around the Covid19 situation, we have the intention to start the ticket sales in December. As for every event, the ticket price and procedures have been a hot topic for discussion. To keep this as open as possible, we would like to get input from the orga (and other interested people) on the ticket pricing. This is also an agenda item on the orga meeting on Saturday, but we’re sure that this will be a heavily discussed topic on the mailinglist as well.
> 
> I have added three screenshots of the highlevel budget part with a different ticket pricing to show what this does to the income/expenses. The total expected expenses (including 20% unforeseen) are a bit over 1.2 million euros. This is based on the expenses from previous events with an expected increase and costs that we already know (e.g the terrain). Assuming we can organise the event due to Covid19, there will be additional costs due to the situation (e.g the insurance price is 2x).
> 
> Current thoughts with the ticket sales procedure is as follows:
> - Start the sales with price x (and some additional supporter/bussiness tickets)
> - Increase the price over time (e.g early bird is less than one 10 days for the event)
> - As usual have the possibility to make special arrangements for attendees that need help with this
> 
> The big question here is: “What should the ticket price be?”. As you can see from the screenshots, an avarage ticket price (e.g a child ticket will be cheaper) of 290 euro with 3200 visitors is needed to be barely cashflow positive, but this will leave very little room for unforeseen costs. Given the board of IFCAT is personally liable for this, we need to come up with a ticket price higher than this. The other screenshots show an option with a higher price.
> 
> We hope that the community can give their opinion on this topic. Feel free to respond on the mailinglist or during the Orga mumble on Saturday. Thanks in advance!
> 
> 
> 
> Met vriendelijke groeten / Best regards,
> Attilla de Groot | +31 6 45788080
> Treasurer IFCAT | Project lead MCH2021
> 
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