CHAT ROOM

El D

I appreciate that you would not want to do this but...
In order to save a good venue, wouldn't it be possible to make this work?

It surely doesn't have to be as complicated as the reasons you give as to why it won't work.

You know how many people have come in, you charge them £12 each. You tell in writing the Venue - how many people have entered & here is your £5/person towards use of the dance space. It doesn't sound too complicated. Wouldn't make entering any slower. Would need MINIMAL admin on either side. Can't understand the fraud thing, are promoters/venue managers that dishonest (I bow to your experience of this). It wouldn't be £5-10 extra door charge, because this is the TOTAL amount you were saying needed to be spent at the bar, so to cover the profit generated by this (the actual amount they need to clear to make it worth letting salseros in would be 25-50% less, helping this would be the fact that EVERYONE would be contributing, so I assume £3-4 would cover it. It would then be up to peeps whether they bought drinks or not. If the dance space was covered by all, I would not feel that buying a drink would be subsidising anyone! When I go to the pub, buy a few pints, I've never felt that I'm subsidising the other more sober drinkers!!

So you see, this is why many can't understand that this is a non-starter or no-brainer.

I do understand that you would not want to do it/try it and that you genuinly believe it's not the way, just not convinced on why!

ps
not trying to annoy you honest El D - I appreciatte the fact that you & those like you provide social salsa dancing for likes of me, who would not be interested in arranging owt!

Perhaps someone HAS tried this & could tell us if it works/what happened?