Aly, I think Joe just gave you your angle for justifying the price rise ;-)
When you break it down in terms of how much the person *saves* by buying the ticket, it looks like a great value show!
It really doesn't matter to me how much the ticket costs though, because by the time I get there comfortably and stay a week or 2, i'm looking at $20k ... the more time goes on in this industry, the more of us who will just be attending local gatherings in our area because the time and expense is unnecessary.
The thought of spending 30 hours travelling just to get to a 3 day event makes me puke
