Ice Cold Cans

[alan_clarke1]

So it's a hot sunny day and your stood on the Pyramid field gasping for a drink. I walk past you with my stash of ice cold beers and ciders. You don't even have to get out of your camping chair. How much would you pay me for a can?

[Liam13th]

How much would the environment pay? :angry:

[PabloCoke]

How much would the environment pay? :angry:

[liamgazza]

How much would the environment pay? :angry:

[Spindles]

They don't let you do that now. It used to be that there were people wandering everywhere selling cans, I haven't seen any the last couple of years, just vodka jelly sellers (which is not a cold refreshing can of beer!). Unauthorised sellers seem to be a no no with the organisers these days, I haven't seen fag sellers recently either.

I don't have a problem with it personally, I'd pay £5 for a couple of ice cold cans if I was in a crowd and £5 for three if they were just cool.

[Spindles]

About £1.50. He's a bit of a miserable bastard.

[Breeze]

How much would the environment pay? :angry:

[Spindles]

Brewing DOES produce craploads of CO2. Thankfully it also produces a feeling of being too pissed to care.

I just realised I haven't been drunk in like a month. This must change.

[alan_clarke1]

thank you mini focus group

[Spindles]

Do we get tea and biscuits now? The man in the street said there'd be biscuits if we answered the questions. Rich tea? cheap c**t

[alan_clarke1]

calm down! we have hobnobs too! they'll get around to you eventually!

[Greenelk]

Chocolate or plain hobnobs?

[Spindles]

I used to think that a non-chocolate hobnob was a complete waste of time, however I recently wolfed down an entire packet of plain and discovered their naive charm. Any biscuit becomes better if you add chocolate, just like any meal becomes better if you add bacon or cheese.

[cejx]

a fiver for 3 seemed to be the going rate - as long as they are cold.

[Cooter]

They don't let you do that now. It used to be that there were people wandering everywhere selling cans

[Spindles]

Really? Never saw one myself the last 2 years, good to hear it. In '09 there was a lad on sunday with a huge sports bag of cans of stella, I asked if he was selling and he looked at me like I was mental, apparently he was just trying to cart beers to his mates for the evening (this was about 4 cases of stella in an enormous bag, came to my attention cos he was fighting to stop them spilling on the floor and failing). I negotiated the price of 3 for a fiver anyway, he had lots of beer and no cash, I had cash but no beer.

[posthuman]

To the OP - just be aware that if you get caught, you may be carted offsite and your wristband snipped. Not trying to be a downer, just trying to make sure you understand the risk to your weekend.

[Spindles]

Maybe a modest sized sign that says "I'm not selling beer, but make me an offer, I may have some spares"?

[Ponyegg]

Selling alcohol requires a licence, and people found selling cans (eg; to under age people) threaten GF's own entertainments licence which is why they are so harsh on it nowadays. Instead of selling them for cash, why not see what else you can swap them for :-) I've seen people selling cans in the past couple of years though, but not very many of them and as to how 'ice cold' they were is anyone's guess. Give it a go, but as others have said you run the risk of getting kicked out, you also run the risk of having your beer taken from you in the process. Would agree with prices, £5 for 3 cans is fair, but if I was by myself and didn't want to lug 3 of them around and watch them get warm I'd be happy to pay £2 per can... jesus, if ice cream vans can charge £2 for a 250ml bottle of water then you can sure as hell charge £2 for a 440ml can of stella/redstripe etc.

If you are going to do it though, take a leaf out of the drug dealers in The Wire ie; don't hold the beer & sell at the same time. Have someone in charge of guarding/distributing the beer, and then simply go out and get orders, then get the beer from the stash return them to your customer and take the money... and have a couple of spotters to keep an eye out for the rozzers.

[let's 'ave it!!!]

Last year, was walking by a stall selling water holding two cans of beer, and the guy on the stall called me over and kindly offered to swap my nasty warm can for one he had kept in his fridge.....Only at Glasto! :-D

[glasto'newbie']

I'm considering bringing some ciggies to sell... They will cut off my wristband if I'm caught? Will they stop me coming in if I have a couple of cartons in my bag? Will the 'I'm a heavy smoker, about 60 a day' excuse cut it?

Really need some extra cash for the weekend, but I'm sketching a bit now

[redhotchilly]

We were at the Pyramid in 09 watching Lily Allen & some lad & his girlfriend were selling ice cold cans of Foster's for £2 each.I know it was Foster's but it was just the ticket at the time!!

[Spindles]

Any queries about how many fags you have: "We are a big group mate, if you think I've got alot of fags you should see my poor mate still struggling in the car park with the beers!"

They can query if you are intending to sell, even suggest they think you are, however as long as you stick to your guns you should be fine (more than 4 sticks and you might have a job convincing them, though), try and clear as many as you can in the car parks (subtly) before going in maybe?

[staggerlee]

Was thinking of selling cigs myself this year. It is a guaranteed money maker, pack of 20 Marlboros for a fiver would be a signinificant discount on the £8.50 they were selling them for last year.

Unfortunately we no longer have a supplier.

[glasto'newbie']

Any queries about how many fags you have: "We are a big group mate, if you think I've got alot of fags you should see my poor mate still struggling in the car park with the beers!"

They can query if you are intending to sell, even suggest they think you are, however as long as you stick to your guns you should be fine (more than 4 sticks and you might have a job convincing them, though), try and clear as many as you can in the car parks (subtly) before going in maybe?