Topic: idea of creating a bitcoin carnival. (Read 2917 times)

here is some of the point we may need to think about the pricing of the food:
if our admission price was too low, then it would be hard to break even at the selling.
if our admission price was too high, maybe we would decrease the price of the food to maximize the visitors.

hiring external food sellers would be good to minimize the expenditure.


this could be a barrier that if we have to do it all ourselves.

$5 and below is the best price for the food and drinks, cuz not everyone bring a lot of money to go there.

bump. as we don't have enough voters, i just have extended the voting.
please not just appreciate my idea, please leave your idea regarding this carnival concept as well so i will be able to do the project if i can.

bitcoin carnival ? good idea. with it we can introduce bitcoin

In a bitcoin carnival, everything should purchase with btc.

Most of the works should be done volunteerly with community's members. 

bump.

if i receive enough suggestion, then i will try to develop a real one as a project so people will gotta try for the world-first bitcoin carnival.
unlike most of the carnivals, this would need support by majority of the bitcoiners in order  to get this carnival to real.

we are now having new vote about the pricing on the food, please vote for your opinion.
i would recommend for $10 at maximum with one dish and a can of soda as my opinion.

I like your idea . Well everyone will like the presence of the carnival . children until adulthood like a carnival . I think the price of tickets for children and adults differentiated . and there must also be a special discount when buying the tickets directly using bitcoin . and at the carnaval every transaction using bitcoin.

Not just pizza, there is many other things beside that. There is also many more games on carnevals u just need to replace payment currency.
I have no idea how much entry can be, that depends from offers there. For me personaly games are important, some buy in with some little prizes. That makes everythin more interesting.
Wish u good luck with this project, I will follow this topic I`m interested to see how it will be.

You could parter with your city administration to have some financial helps. They could offer discount to the poorer people that would like to go to your event. If your mayor is a socialist, talking about the equality of everyone about this numeric revolution is your best bet . However, you'll have to convince him first that Bitcoin is fantastic, which could not be easy ...

i do not charge people a high price now, we would need people to start understanding bitcoin - that's the goal, we use thrill rides to attract people to join this carnival. we could decrease the price but would really need much more people to admit that carnival.

Admission fee's are usually implemented to control the type of people you want to attract. The higher admission fee, exclude some of the lower income groups and you would get people with a higher income bracket. The goal is to make money and if you attract tons of feet with empty pockets, you will make less money.

You should consider what group of people you want to target and base your decision on that. I do not like exclusion based on income, but rather exposure to everyone for the purpose of adoption to Bitcoin.

The fee would all depend on how hard the game is supposed to be, and how much it would cost to have the prizes available.

If the game was hard, you could make it cost $1 so more people would be inclined to try it, but if it was easier it should cost whatever amount more.

If the game seems to be too easy, change it out or ramp up the cost. Whatever is needed to make a profit.

sorry dude, this is a fee about the game booths. 
fine if you have voted, however it won't be a good deal on that price, would you think so?

Nice, I see you're keeping this thread updated, very nice.
I really do hope you will pursue this one day.

Since in this case, I would already be paying an entry fee,
I would have to vote for either $2 or $3

i live in hong kong, as you can see. :-/
there are some of the places like central zone to setup a carnival like TGEC just did, we could take place there.

i would expect that a small bitcoin carnival could be good, however it wouldn't help better to promote bitcoin i guess.
if i had a complete plan about the carnival, more likely it would be funded well because this could likely spread bitcoin out. admission fee could be really low as long as we could make a little profit and lets people to start to use bitcoin; free admission isn't eve possible unless we were assisted. in fact if i start this carnival project today, it could be finished within the March and publish on the same day. i would believe that the thrill rides could be a question because every single ride requires an authorization license.

Hmm, I have no experiences is the cost managing and all, so I don't know the budget and expenses... Maybe since this is the first bitcoin carnival you're going to have, I think starting out small would be better, and it raises awareness of this bitcoin carnival thing, which should be the first goal.

Start of with a few cotton candy carts, ring toss, those typical games, but bitcoin themed. Like there could be a bitcoin plinko game, knock down the 'bitcoin', something like that. The admission fee should be low, or even free, to attract everyone's attention. It might be loss, since you have to set up quite a few stuff, and rent the land I guess.. Rides would be difficult, but it'll be nice if there was. Quite tough to make this a reality, hope everyone supports this!

after reading other idea's and comments.
just entry admittance should be under $15.. and people then separately pay for rides they want
but also have the day pass that includes a number of rides, etc for a higher price (obviously more then just entry, but less than 50% of disneyworld)

if people choose to pay via bitcoin. it still costs the same amount of fiat to buy the amount of bitcoin needed(no discount).. but its a VIP day pass, allowing for better prizes on game stands, better seating at shows. longer rides, queue jumping, etc.. maybe even a free pizza slice.

try not to make bitcoin seem like a discount currency, but an exclusive VIP status currency

afterall the ticket stands handling fiat are gonna make losses. EG employing people an extra couple hours after gates close to count up the bank notes and take them to a bank. where they find they lost a bit of fiat from ticket staff giving the wrong change etc (you know standard fiat problems)
so its better to give customers some extra's for using bitcoin as it reduces time/cost waste by not needing to handle fiat

as i said before you might want to partner up with existing events/carnivals/county fair organizers so that you can dip your toe in the water without having all the headaches of fully managing one.. then once comfortable.. then organize your own

bump.

we should probably have a lucky draw in the carnival, with the high-demand prizes like iPhone, admission ticket on the rides and for the game booths, etc. which should be higher than expected profit AFAIK.