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mini (very mini) rant
Apr. 28th, 2012 04:02 pmI say mini, because I'm not knocking the cons themselves... as entities their reputations for fun are good... but, why are these bloomin' European cons So Expensive?? $140 for Eurofurence and $122 for ConFuzzled.. that's about THREE times more than USA cons! .. PLUS, ya got all that extra travel expense! ... Do they figure "hey, they are going to pay all that extra money anyway, so our higher price is relatively less noticeable than, say, if their travel cost was lower?" ... just theorizing here..
I've gone to every single FurtherConfoo and it's always been $35 for the entire con!! (this year was the first time they raised the rates, and only by $5) ... and travel cost for me is under $50, whereas E.F. is more like $1,500.. and ConFuzzled is looking like it'd be $1,200.
Travel cost is less significant when you write it into the whole 'vacation expense' thing, but I still don't understand why the actual con costs are SO much higher.. It's not the exchange rate, because that is not 3x higher... so, um... why?
I've gone to every single FurtherConfoo and it's always been $35 for the entire con!! (this year was the first time they raised the rates, and only by $5) ... and travel cost for me is under $50, whereas E.F. is more like $1,500.. and ConFuzzled is looking like it'd be $1,200.
Travel cost is less significant when you write it into the whole 'vacation expense' thing, but I still don't understand why the actual con costs are SO much higher.. It's not the exchange rate, because that is not 3x higher... so, um... why?
