Dreamshiner,
Here are two of your statements:
"Anyone want to share why BALPA ask for £60 from hard up newly qualified/unemployed pilots for their career conference at Heathrow in October?"
and
"The reason for the thread was to ask if PPRuNer's thought £60 was justified, and those who were unaware of it to question if it was value for money."
My read of the original post tells me you were asking why BALPA charges £60, not whether anyone thinks it's good value for money. You clearly don't think it is, but so far nobody has agreed with you. I think it's great value for money. Maybe you should look at what you could get out of it to find the value proposition rather than what it costs BALPA to put it on.