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Old 28th Jun 2009, 23:17
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Treadigraph... fair point re: Sundays potentially being busier at these kind of events. I for one, if visiting B.Hill again, will go on the Sat if it remains a 2 day event.

The issue here is event management.

If the organisers sell a quoter of; for arguments sake 100k pre-sold tickets for a 2 day event (where by the pre-booked ticket holders can arrive on any of the 2 days of their choice), and above these ticket holder numbers they expect people to arrive ticketless at the gate willing to pay on either day due to good weather, then these implications require some kind of understanding and pro-active behaviour from those in 'control.'

If you do not monitor the number of pre-booked tickets used on the 1st day, then how do you know how many people with pre-booked tickets, with parking pass A tickets will arrive on day 2? If a pre-booked ticket holder arrived today on day 2 , at 2pm, he/she will have probably been refused entry due to the venue being full... This is wrong.

I can see a lot of business being lost by the way this event was managed. Possibly 3rd party agencies were employed, but something needs to be reviewed before B.H.2010 that's for sure.
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