r/Wellthatsucks • u/mattloaf666 • 10h ago

Reading festival 2026

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u/PublicProperty1805 10h ago

There should be a deposit attached to ticket price and when you scan out if you aren't carrying tent with you you don't get deposit back.

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u/ih8makingupnames 9h ago

Although a good idea, most entitled people wouldn't give a fuck and would still walk out empty handed.

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u/fatgat69 9h 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 8h ago

And you can pay cleanup crews

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u/ItsIllak 6h 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 6h 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 5h 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/Alma_Holzhurt 1h 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 1h ago

That's also fine with me.

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u/heidismiles 7h ago

But that's what the deposit is for. To cover the costs of cleanup.

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u/Aegi 6h ago

Good, then that extra revenue can be used by the venue to pay people to pick up the trash and if they're already doing that they can afford to pay them more!

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u/dbxp 4h ago

People are paid for that, a festival organiser can't just walk off having trashed a venue

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u/Tall-Ad6328 9h ago

Yaip, but the festival would make a shit ton of money and would be able to invite actual artists

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u/404NameOfUser 5h ago

At least they would pay for the clean up.

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u/MaMerde 7h ago

Or bring an extra unused tent.

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u/Deewwsskkii 4h ago

Atleast it would pay for a proper cleanup. Due to all the needles and human waste that are surely spread out all over the place this should automatically be classified as a biohazard cleaning job with certain precautions (which isn’t cheap). I would bet currently they just send out minimum wage festival employees to deal with this.