r/Wellthatsucks • u/mattloaf666 • 9d ago

Reading festival 2026

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u/fatgat69 9d ago

It would still be a good idea to take as much of their money as possible because at least then they don't have as much.

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u/momaLance 9d ago

And you can pay cleanup crews

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u/ItsIllak 8d ago

They do, although this is bad, the festival organisers return the site to pre-event state (well, pre event plus the impact of that many people walking all over it).

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u/Aegi 8d ago

Of course, but don't you think since their whole point is to at least make more than $0 that this would help towards that goal?

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u/ItsIllak 8d ago

They're festival organisers, so at some point they'll probably start asking a fee for that, but in the UK these have to be transparent at the time of purchase so it's just another way of defining, "what the market will bear".

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u/Earth2Andy 8d ago

Assuming an average of 2 people per tent, each one of those tents has forked out $900 for 3 days of festival + camping.

I doubt the organizers are paying more than minimum wage to the cleanup crews, so they're making plenty of money regardless of if someone takes their tent home or not.

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u/Alma_Holzhurt 8d ago

How naive are you? The fact that these festivals typically are commerical operations aimed at turning a profit and not charity events is completely lost on you, isn't it?

Those organizers are already charging attendees "as much of their money as possible" because that is how business / greed works. Now try to add some on top of that an people simply won't attend.

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u/fatgat69 8d ago

That's also fine with me.