<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Hi Mark,</div><div><br></div><div>Congrats on your venture. It's hard work, so good luck!</div><div><br></div><div>On 25 Feb 2009, at 11:42, Mark Coleman wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>I don't want to hang about, so registration is already available. There will be Early Bird tickets, but to get the ball rolling, there are also a few, limited availability <b>Very</b> Early Bird tickets available for £160 (a 1/3 off the regular price). Early Bird tickets will be £180, and available until June (or they sell out).</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>While cheaper than some conferences (RailsConf*), that's still a pretty penny. It looks like you're making around 300 tickets available in total, which if you sell out should net you around £60,000. Is that really how much is required to put on a two day technical conference?</div><div><br></div><div>I'd also encourage you to drop the tiered ticketing, and set a simple, fair price with a clear breakdown of where the money is going. As a potential conference attendee, I like (or rather, need) to be able to clearly justify the value I'm going to get. We are living in the crunch, after all :)</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway... all the best,</div><div><br></div><div>James</div><div><br></div><div><div>*With RailsConf offering the 'free' pass to CabooseConf, I wonder if anyone is actually going to pay for their full price fee? I know I wouldn't, although be presenting and selling my soul to O'Reilly, I get in anyway.</div></div></body></html>