Payment plan

[matt123]

Also just noticed the ticket limit is 8 for installments as apposed to 4 for normal tickets. There really trying anything to shift some more tickets.

[Bisque]

Bestival are doing a 4 month payment plan. Gives me enough money to save up until September whilst also getting a Glastonbury & Reading ticket last month. Couldn't have done it otherwise.

I can't see how the ticket sellers would lose out by giving this option as you pay all the booking fees & postage in the first instalment.

So to say "you seriously need to question whether you can afford the weekend itself" is a load of sh**e as this way I can go to three major festivals (& a cheap holiday) & not have to worry about being short on cash until Bestival comes around in 5 months time.

[thetime]

Bestival are doing a 4 month payment plan. Gives me enough money to save up until September whilst also getting a Glastonbury & Reading ticket last month. Couldn't have done it otherwise.

I can't see how the ticket sellers would lose out by giving this option as you pay all the booking fees & postage in the first instalment.

So to say "you seriously need to question whether you can afford the weekend itself" is a load of sh**e as this way I can go to three major festivals (& a cheap holiday) & not have to worry about being short on cash until Bestival comes around in 5 months time.

[Bisque]

not got a gf then? still living with parents then? dont go to gigs or have fun then?

[thetime]

I have a gf, I live in one of my parents houses & live in Surrey so go to gigs in London during the depressing winter months. You're point is?

Just saying it makes sense to have this option rather than not as the ticket sellers won't be losing out.

& if you want to go & can't afford it, get off your backside & be ready to do some stewarding.

[MEGABOWL]

1) I work full time on a below average salary and £200 doesn't break my bank. I don't have major savings either. Obviously I'm speaking generally, but if you're on a salary of more than £15k, you should able to afford £200. You can certainly plan for it. If you can't it sounds like you're living above your means.

2) Average salary in the UK is £25k. The 2009 median grad starting salary was the same. If your take home pay is more than £15k, then £200 is nowt.

[Paul ™]

If you have to pay by installments you seriously need to question whether you can afford the weekend itself.

It's something you plan for surely?

Edited April 5, 2011 by Paul ™

[Bisque]

Not one for a bit of banter then couchy?

Must be your privelage upbringing!

[Mariner]

Still doesn't answer the question about why you think you're on a position to lecture anyone else about their finances? I earn way above the UK Average salary, had no intention of going but now have the time off and am likely to use the payment scheme for tickets.

Am I, or anyone else that uses this or any other festival payment scheme, wrong?

[Rudzkii]

Didn't think it justified a new thread but EE permits have sold out again on See

[MEGABOWL]

Why are you trying to get into an argument with me? Don't get your knickers in a bunch. I'm going to take a wild guess and say that you're probably a girl. Only women get so sensitive about their shitty financial position. Why on earth would you pay layaway if you get paid so much? Credit card mentality perhaps? I think you need to speak to this dude:

[Rudzkii]

I think the point is that whilst some people may have £2,000 in the bank, other may have £20,000 no one knows what is around the corner and I'd much prefer to spread costs that be hit by a fat charge all at once. Hence why I use my 0% credit card for almost all my bigger purchases (I pay most of it off within the month), I like knowing that should anything major happen to my car or house I have some readies spare to sort it.

Everyone handles finances different ways and I don't think anyone is in a position to pass judgement on something like that.

Edited April 5, 2011 by Rudzkii

[MEGABOWL]

Or perhaps people want to spread the cost of several festivals out over the course of them being on sale/available. Am paying off Rockness, Camp Bestival and Glastonbury using deposit/payment plan schemes which allows me to book the festivals I want to go to, and securing my ticket before either one/all of them sell out.

Ticketline have been doing Payment Plans for several festivals for years now, it's not a new concept.

[MEGABOWL]

I think the point is that whilst some people may have £2,000 in the bank, other may have £20,000 no one knows what is around the corner and I'd much prefer to spread costs that be hit by a fat charge all at once. Hence why I use my 0% credit card for almost all my bigger purchases (I pay most of it off within the month), I like knowing that should anything major happen to my car or house I have some readies spare to sort it.

Everyone handles finances different ways and I don't think anyone is in a position to pass judgement on something like that.

[j...rox]

So what are the chances of me shifting my second ticket without incurring a painful loss??

Reckon I can get face back for it?

[matt123]

So what are the chances of me shifting my second ticket without incurring a painful loss??

Reckon I can get face back for it?

[Rudzkii]

Or wait, tickets are beginning to sell out

[Mariner]

Are you on a mission to be as spectacularly wrong as possible?

As you're not picking up the point I can see I'll have to spell it out for you....

I'm not going to tell you why I choose to pay installments because (read this bit slowly) it's none of your business. (in fact, read the next bit slowly too) You don't know my or anyone else's financial situation, there are literally thousands of reasons why someone may choose to use the installment plan. Even if you did know another poster on the internet's financial situation it's still (again, slowly here) none of your business. (in fact, just read it all slowly) Whenever you post about things you have absolutely no idea about you look stupid, and a little bit arrogant.

However, if you think putting up funny pictures helps you in your efforts to back away from an indefensibly stupid position, you fill your boots son.

[Rudzkii]

First one not to make a snotty retort is the bigger man, lets get the thread back on topic eh guys?

[halfpint]

1) I work full time on a below average salary and £200 doesn't break my bank. I don't have major savings either. Obviously I'm speaking generally, but if you're on a salary of more than £15k, you should able to afford £200. You can certainly plan for it. If you can't it sounds like you're living above your means.

2) Average salary in the UK is £25k. The 2009 median grad starting salary was the same. If your take home pay is more than £15k, then £200 is nowt.

[harderfaster]

So what are the chances of me shifting my second ticket without incurring a painful loss??

Reckon I can get face back for it?

[Rudzkii]

somebody said 'or you could wait - tickets are selling out'. whether or not that is true, i have a sneaky suspicious that there are a lot of touts with tickets waiting until the tickets are sold out before they put them on the market...

[harderfaster]

That was me bro, I was only going on the fact that Leeds EE tickets sold out today.

[Mariner]

That is a massive assumption on peoples spending.

On a take take home pay of £15,144 you have a monthly salery for £1262. Minus rent at £550 = £726 Minus Council tax at 93 per month = £636 Minus various payments - £250 = £386 Minus petrol spend at £120 = £266 Minus Food at £100 = £166 left for the month. And I would imagine these calculations are at the bottom end of average. So been able to afford £200 on a festival ticket in one month is not that obviously possible - a monthly instalment payment plan has really got me thinking about getting a ticket when before wasn't and option.

[Belisha Beacon]

Has it not occured to those of you arrogantly lecturing others about money that this clearly isn't aimed at those who were always planning to go but is designed to bring in new punters who may not have 200 notes just now, but may impulse buy with the added-sweetener of an interest free deposit scheme?