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 |
| £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 |
| £199 (+ 17.5% VAT) | Early Bird available until February 29th 2008 |
| £299 (+ 17.5% VAT) | without discount |
£199 + VAT
£299 + VAT
Still cheap though ;)
£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.
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.