From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V3 #122 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Tuesday, April 6 2004 Volume 03 : Number 122 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 21:03:20 -0500 (CDT) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas Glasto Hassle - what proof you will weed > Last year, Michael Eavis was suggesting that a fair way may be to restrict > people in so much that if you went to the 2004 festival, then you wouldn't > be able to buy a ticket for 2005. That way every one could go to every other > year . That's ridiculous. Every high-demand event from sports to the arts has the concept of season ticket holders, who have priority over any new season ticket holders or single event (eg festival day if it were available that way) ticket buyers. You build loyalty in *this way only* rather than trying to expose the maximum number of people to your product, which is what the other system tries to do. Why not then have TWO Glastonburys, identical? Yeah, the locals would be even more pissed off, and it'd be hard to duplicate the bands, but that is more fair an option than saying "you've already seen this, move along" to your long-time customers! Is he daft? Is there that much demand? Is there no way to create similar demand elsewhere? There are oodles of festivals in the UK I keep hearing about new ones all the time! I just read that there are sooooo many festivals that it's like football teams: the different festival organisers are competing for the hottest bands to play their festival! (time for the wee one to go to bed; I had to explain that I was writing a letter to a friend who was sad because he had gone to a party, like a birthday party, for years and years, and now the birthday boy might not let him come back! LOL you have her sympathy) ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 21:09:31 -0500 (CDT) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas Glasto Hassle - what proof you will weed > New Uk drivers licences have pics on them. Anyone out there that looks > like a Raj Patel selling a ticket???? No. Guess I'm going to Berlin > then... Our drivers licences have had pictures for ages.... since I was a little girl, I know. I had my mother's details memorised at quite a young age since every time you went to the grocery store you had to present your ID if you wrote a check, and your licence number would be written on the check. I *still* have her number memorised! (please substitute "cheque" for "check" above if you live in the UK) On the other hand, our *voter's* cards do NOT have pictures on them. Hmmmmm.... makes you kinda wonder, don't it? Neither do our SS cards (social security). We don't have a national health care system, so the only federal country-wide identification is the SSN -- and even then you aren't forced to have one unless you work, or your parents wish to claim you as a tax deduction. Only 10% of Americans possess passports, which of course have photos, but since so few have them, they can't be used. It is surprisingly easy to fake documentation here as so little is required and what is required is easily forged. :: sigh :: Maybe Eavis has had a vision that a terrorist threat will strike and he therefore wants ID checks and names of all the festival goers. Who knows. Then again, if he wants to be safe, he'd be best off inviting the same folks each year, to the fullest extent possible. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V3 #122 ********************************