r/Wellthatsucks • u/mattloaf666 • 9h ago

Reading festival 2026

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u/PublicProperty1805 8h 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 8h 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 7h 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 7h ago

And you can pay cleanup crews

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u/ItsIllak 5h 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 4h 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 3h 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 9m 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 0m ago

That's also fine with me.