[Scale-planning] Did you like having SCALE t-shirt pick up on the expo floor?

[David Lang]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, Ken wrote:

>> ...
>> the expo pass thing doesn't require that scale make any additional outlay
>> if someone is abusing it. It costs potential revenue (but see all the
>> discussions on online piracy about how potential revenue != lost money),
>> but unless the room is full so that paid attendees aren't able to get it,
>> it doesn't directly hurt anyone
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> It costs Scale money as a reduction in income.

only if you make the (false) assumption that every person would have paid full 
price. This is RIAA logic and has been shown to be false many times over.

Ilan put it best on this topic.

David Lang

> Also if a person sees a person
> with an Expo badge and nothing is being done about it, they might have an
> issue with it and do the same in the future. The cost is based on the paying
> people, so if people steal, it costs all those who pay.
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> The fact is that it is unknown how much it is actually costing since it is
> unknown how many get an Expo only badge and go to all the talks since it is
> not being tracked at all.
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>> shirts require cash outlay by scale.
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> Yet they want to get rid of the excess and were encouraging people to take as
> many as they wanted on Sunday. Remember that the percentage of those who got
> shirts went down by 19% this year.
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> Is the extra effort and wasted time of the attendees really worth it?
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