A Miracle!

[Gordon Hundley]

On Apr 3, 2007, at 12:10 PM, M Holmes wrote:

> In fact, Eavis only needs to offer one ticket for sale and then  
> take the
> X highest bids.

I don't see that its necessarily more fair to allocate tickets to the  
N highest bidders than to allocate them to the N luckiest from a  
lottery or the N most persistent about hitting refresh. There are  
people willing to pay the costs Eavis requires to profit from his  
festival but who would never get tickets again under a bidding war. I  
doubt you'd be happy to be in such a position, though maybe your  
tolerance for being the fiscal underdog is higher than your tolerance  
for pressing 'refresh'. :)

More significantly however, I have to wonder what would be left of  
crafts, theatre, or other arts once the festival is full of punters  
willing to spend huge sums to go and see certain vogue bands in a  
field. I seriously doubt as high a proportion of the big spenders  
would be interested in the less publicised attractions of the current  
festivals. I honestly don't know. I do feel that the 'ambience' would  
certainly change. However, I wish you luck in your endeavour to  
convince Eavis to fully embrace his inner capitalist.

Gordon.