Electric picnic 07 on sale Monday

eth0_

For anyone who wants to live in other people's excrement, pay for showers that were supposed to be free, deal with drunk security guards, camp beside blaring music tents because there's just not enough room to pitch etc etc...

Electric Picnic 2007 tickets are on sale Monday at the ridiculous price of €199

Toast

With non biased presentation of the facts like that you could be a reporter on Fox news.

ps the price increase is because of this

mal1

I don't think the VAT increase comes into effect until January so the increase to the tickets which go on sale on Monday shouldn't include the VAT????

Mr Rivers

The event is in 07, all tickets on sale now for 07 gigs have that VAT included, gig prices will not suddenly rise on ticketmaster.ie on January 1st because they havent added the VAT

mal1

Mr Rivers wrote:

The event is in 07, all tickets on sale now for 07 gigs have that VAT included, gig prices will not suddenly rise on ticketmaster.ie on January 1st because they havent added the VAT

Bummer! I thought the whole reason for them going on sale so early was to avoid the new tax

Mr Rivers

mal1 wrote:

Bummer! I thought the whole reason for them going on sale so early was to avoid the new tax

Them going on sale now is to ease the demand and lots of people will wanna get them as xmas presents

ClareBear

Eurgh I said I'd definitely go next year but I'm starting to wonder if I'm over the whole festival thing now....

mathie

When will the line-up be announced?

KevIRL

mathie wrote:

When will the line-up be announced?

First names in Feb apparently

lordgoat

Glastonbury(maybe) and Roskilde are they way forward and trips to the Uk every now and again...

Dont be at yourself

I think these tickets are exclusive of VAT - pretty sure I read that in a press release. They were releasing them now so people wouldnt have to buy them in the new year with the VAT on top.

Toast

It specifically says in the mail they sent out that the 199 includes the vat. Its when the event is held not when the tickets go on sale. Frankly fair play for them including the booking fee and vat in the quote price rather than trying to cover the fact up.

Tickets are E199 incl booking fee & vat* this year, they will go on sale Mon 11th December and be available from all usual outlets,
www.ticketmaster.ie / Credit Card Hotline: Ph 0818 719300 (Republic of Ireland / 0870 2434455 UK/Northern Ireland). Phone / internet bookings are
subject to service charges. Agents fee is EU 2.25.

*From January 2007 admission charges to outdoor events will be liable to vat where previously they had not been.

Murt_

I bought a pair of tickets to this and ended up paying 6.35 booking fee per ticket. Where exactly could I have bought them with an agents fee of 2.25?
Anyone pay 2.25 per ticket?

comet

I bought my ticket cos I had the 200 handy (yeah its expensive, i'm presuming we'll have a full 3 day this year though not just 2.5). Quite simply its the best festival in Ireland and with the capacity staying the same come next summer it will be the ticket to have. Ok no lineup announced but i'm sure it'll be decent. Glasto is great but its going to be ridiculously hard to get a ticket for it this year.

lordgoat

Murt_ wrote:

I bought a pair of tickets to this and ended up paying 6.35 booking fee per ticket. Where exactly could I have bought them with an agents fee of 2.25?
Anyone pay 2.25 per ticket?

Where did you pay 6quid booking fee?

Philby

I'll second lordgoat's comment.

Glastonbury is absolutely amazing. Went in 2005 and it was quite probably the best weekend of my life. The venue is quality. The people are bang on. The music speaks for itself and the overall vibe just can't be matched (I was at EP last year and while I really enjoyed myself Glasto is just on another level).

Start saving now, it's worth the extra few bob to hit Glasto over EP although admittedly sourcing tickets is a bit of a nightmare.

comet

lordgoat wrote:

Where did you pay 6quid booking fee?

Ticketmasters service charge on 1 EP ticket costing €199 is €6.35 I too would like to know where I could have got them cheaper.

Mushy

Isnt the €6 booking fee on the website, whereas if ya get them in a shop, its €2. For €200, nah, Im not gonna go now

Murt_

Ah bugger, so it cost me an extra 4.10 per ticket to buy them on line. Would have bought them in the shops just out of principal if I'd known that... ah well lesson learned.

On the Glasto\Roskilde\EP thing. I did Glastonbury, then Roskilde, then ****** three weekends in a row in 2004. Glastonbury was the best by miles. Roskilde is alright until people start to get really drunk around midnight (I saw plenty of people pi$$ing on tents). ****** is best done as a bus trip nowadays and is a distant third.

In 2005 I gave Roskilde a skip and caught the bus to ******. I caught the first "camping" EP that year as well and it was damn close to being as good as Glastonbury. Something that good in Ireland? I was definately going back.

This year, no Glastonbury
But, EP was 3 nights to make up for that
Still a great festival, definately worth going again.

So next year Glastonbury is back. My advice try and get a ticket to Glastonbury. You'll need a load of mates all on the Internet at the exact moment they go on sale, that's worked twice for me and we have all got tickets each time. If you can't make both, sell your EP ticket to fund the trip to Glasto, you're more likely to get another ticket to the EP than Glasto.

For one weekend that farm in Pilton is the best place in the world to be, the 100-odd thousand people behind "the big fence" are having more fun than everyone outside the fence combined.

Toast

Well Ill be going to both EP and Glastonbury hopefully. Though I recommend Glastonbury keep in mind its not for everyone. Glastonbury is more about the place and atmosphere. Expect to miss half the bands you want to see because its just so big. Electric Picnic has the advantage of a small size on its side and the music is more focused to the indie / dance side of things. Glastonbury usually has a very varied line up with a little of everything.

melekalikimaka

watch out freebird :cool:

i find the amount they are trying to charge at ep a total and utter ripe, not a chance i'm going.... will work it tho

ChuckProphet

got mine, very pricey indeed. i'm thinking if i don't like the line up or the weather's looking crap i'll flog it. will sell out anyway so there'll be no prob there

ghostdancer

so it appears that EP are charging for VAT on these tickets when the VAT isn't coming into force until January 1st. certain other promoters aren't charging this yet for their summer festival tickets (check their sites and ticketmaster) , and have confirmed themselves that this charge won't be coming in till January:

http://forum.electricpicnic.ie/viewtopic.php?t=17261

http://forum.electricpicnic.ie/viewtopic.php?t=17133&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=100


i thought that they were charging it because the event itself takes place in 2007, however after closer inspection of other gigs around this time from other promoters in the country, it appears that it's only Aiken who have started charging for this, and others won't be doing it until January.

so basically Aiken/POD are taking all the money from the pre-2007 tickets themselves.


either that or Aiken/POD have trouble actually writing/understanding what constitues the price of their tickets, and that the price of tickets after January will be ~€230.......

Toast

You cant quote a price and say it includes VAT when it doesn't. I assure you if the 199 euro is a price including VAT they better be accounting the additional fee as VAT or the revenue will be after them.

I am starting to wonder if they misphrased their own email though and the tickets will in fact be 230 after Jan. Theyd want to clarify it soon.

edit
The revenues own document on this is a bloody nightmare. Seems more likely that the two promoters read it differently and came up with different thoughts on what was happening. Either way if Aiken overcharge you VAT you can put in for a VAT refund. They arent pocketing it themselves.

ghostdancer

yeah, but how many people will actually know that or do it?
either way, some promoter has made a very big fukc up....

Toast

ghostdancer wrote:

yeah, but how many people will actually know that or do it?
either way, some promoter has made a very big fukc up....

After carefully reading the Revenue leaflet it looks like Aiken are doing it correctly. Other promoters may be in a spot of bother if they arent charging VAT on future events. Works out well for the consumer but it is a mistake and who knows how it will be resolved. VAT stamps on the tickets with it paid and having to pay it at the door otherwise Id imagine. :-D