[clug-talk] LinuxFest tickets

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 01 May 2006 10:31, Mitchell Brown wrote:
> It's a free event? O_o
> How come you can get "earlybird tickets" for free, but the regular ones are
> like, $25 each?!

to trick people into registering earlier so the organizers know how many 
people to roughly expect (as shawn pointed out). given pre-regs, you can 
pretty safely extrapolate expectations for final numbers. this is a very 
common way of going about things for events ... charge for admission at the 
door, but make it so amazingly easy to get in for free that nobody actually 
does (at some events, i've seen bins of "get in free" cards at the entry to 
the event ;) just so the event team gets some early data =)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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