Scotch on the Rocks pricing announced

Scotch on the Rocks pricing announced

Also going to be title Comparing Costs of conferences. If you haven't seen already the SOTR blog has announced the pricing for next years conference.

£199 + VAT - Early Bird (Available until February 29th 2008) £299 + VAT - Full Price

I only really started attending conferences in 2006 at CFDevCon and since then have been a big advocate of them for many reasons! With Scotch on the Rocks just announcing it's prices I'd thought I'd see how it measures up against the other European options.

I've broken down the prices into two simple bands, early bird and standard. I've also not included bundled prices which add the pre and post tracks as these fall out of the scope of the general conference and are basically specialised training sessions.

Adobe Max (Europe)

Full-Event pass: 3 days October 15-17th 2007

£535.70* (inc 16% VAT) Early Bird discount, had to be purchased on or before September 7th, 2007
£709.20* (inc 16% VAT) If purchased onsite October 14 - October 18, 2007
*Based on 1 GBP = 1.472 EUR

CFUnited Europe:

Full-event pass: 2 days March 12-13th 2008

£479 (inc 17.5% VAT) Early Bird discount, had to be purchased on or before January 1st, 2008
£535.36* (inc 17.5% VAT) without discount
*Based on 1 USD = 0.480119 GBP

Scotch On The Rocks

Full-event pass: 3 days June 4-6th 2008

£199 (+ 17.5% VAT) Early Bird available until February 29th 2008
£299 (+ 17.5% VAT) without discount

Just looking at the price in a plain format shows you what a good value SOTR is this year. Nearly half the price of its competition and a good speaker line up already. It looks like i'm heading back for some <cf_beer>

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1145 Views | Posted At : November 2, 2007 8:10 AM | Posted By : Andy Jarrett
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Scott Stroz's Gravatar Andy - I think there is something wrong with your keyboard. There is a funky looking character where the dollar ($) sign should be. ;)
# Posted By Scott Stroz | 11/2/07 8:42 AM
nick tong's Gravatar Remember there will be cfDevCon next year as well. Information coming VERY soon.
# Posted By nick tong | 11/2/07 9:27 AM
Big Mad Kev's Gravatar Andy I just noticed you've got scotch as inc vat its plus vat mate ;)

£199 + VAT
£299 + VAT

Still cheap though ;)
# Posted By Big Mad Kev | 11/2/07 3:18 PM
Sean Corfield's Gravatar Definitely good prices and very much in line with cf.Objective() 2008:

£199 + VAT is about $490 - cf.Objective() early bird is $499

£299 + VAT is about $730 - cf.Objective() regular is $629

That VAT is a killer but of course most UK companies can claim VAT back so without VAT your prices are about $415 and $620.
# Posted By Sean Corfield | 11/2/07 5:13 PM
Stephen Moretti's Gravatar Following up on Sean's comments about VAT...

Those of you not in the UK will have to pay the VAT as the "product" is being "consumed" inside the UK, but I believe that you will be able to claim back the tax from the appropriate body in your own country.
# Posted By Stephen Moretti | 11/4/07 8:53 AM
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