Customers for Creamfields in Daresbury to get refunds - Cream bosses announce

3:34pm Friday 31st August 2012 in News

Creamfields fans will get some money back Creamfields fans will get some money back

BOSSES at Creamfields say ticket holders will get a refund after last weekend's cancellation of the festival.

A statement released today, Friday, confirmed dance fans will get some of their money back after floods and heavy rain forced the three day event to be called off on Sunday lunchtime.

It said: " "Firstly we’d like to apologise for the delay in getting these details to you, we do understand your frustration however, there are several parties involved and it’s taken a little longer than anticipated to pull all this information together, rest assured this has been a top priority for us.  

"As promised a refund will be issued on all Sunday Day Tickets and part refund issued on all camping tickets scanned on entry for all those who have purchased through one of our official ticket agents (either online or by telephone)." 

Refunds, which are half of the price paid, will be put back directly into customers' accounts.

Comments(18)

notatcreamfields says...
11:27pm Fri 31 Aug 12

Half the price paid for something that didn't take place? Maybe half the price paid for people that had camping but people who paid just for the Sunday should get a full refund. Can't believe they'll get away with this no matter how big the company is. It's just another example of corprete England which is the bigger the company the more they get away with like banks ripping people off and continuing to do so and Vodafone evading tax by complex loan agreements with different areas of the company the main recipetant being a small office in a tax haven with 1 member of staff that loans billions to departments across the world so because the payments plus interest need to be made (even though the whole network of depts are all Vodafone) they save hundreds of millions maybe even billions in tax that should be paid by law each year. Even with the con they pay less tax my making deals with individual HMRC officers which they claim can't be disclosed how much money they're let off with each year while the "normal" tax payers pay a lot more percentage of their wages in tax

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Cleopatra says...
9:51am Sat 1 Sep 12

What's Vodafone got to do with Creamfields?

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silverlady54 says...
10:06am Sat 1 Sep 12

'Notatcreamfields' - Rather than relying on reporting at second-hand, perhaps you should go to the official Creamfields website where you will see that all those with Sunday passes will be refunded in full!! It is only the people who had 2 or 3 day passes who will receive part refunds in proportion. It all looks fair to me.

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Quecumber says...
11:01am Sat 1 Sep 12

Paragraph 4 does say that a full refund will be given on all Sunday tickets.. but the WG is known for amending text so perhaps that wasn't clear in the first draft. Lying in bed listening to the torrential rain on the Saturday night I felt so sorry for those at Creamfields just down the road - it must have been wild in one of the tents. A shame all round as they seemed to be enjoying themselves so much on the Friday (it sounded good from my garden anyway!). Fingers crossed that next year will be dry!

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notatcreamfields says...
11:15am Sat 1 Sep 12

Article has been amended didn't read that before, as for what Vodafone gotta do with Cream they are both corperete giants

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Cleopatra says...
3:58pm Sat 1 Sep 12

notatcreamfields wrote:
Article has been amended didn't read that before, as for what Vodafone gotta do with Cream they are both corperete giants
Looks word for word he same to me.

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Cleopatra says...
4:00pm Sat 1 Sep 12

notatcreamfields wrote:
Article has been amended didn't read that before, as for what Vodafone gotta do with Cream they are both corperete giants
maybe they are both corporate giants but the report was about creamfields not vodafone.

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old-codger says...
9:25pm Sat 1 Sep 12

I think he meant corporate giants not paying tax as they should, ie Vodaphone, Virgin and others, Lord Daresbury will certainly pay less tax on creamfields profits than he should do thanks to his sharp accounting. The people who pay the price for creamfields are the local residents who have to endure all the noise for three days.

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Cleopatra says...
10:21am Sun 2 Sep 12

Actually he was saying vodafone evades paying tax.

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old-codger says...
10:04pm Sun 2 Sep 12

Yes. He was..

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mr dave k says...
11:56pm Sun 2 Sep 12

cream is not some off shore giant like vodafone,it's owned by james barton,who set the club up from nothing,worked his way to the top and he still lives in cheshire,so he cannot be compared to vodafone,also a lot of local business get work from this event from printing companies to local taxi drivers,,

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andi78 says...
8:08am Mon 3 Sep 12

@ old codger

IT'S THREE DAYS MAN GET A GRIP (technically 2 of music as friday is silent disco day). the money that a festival of this size can inject into a local community is amazing. and the good it does for warrington as a town is surely worth a couple of nights worth of music. I have worked many festivals aroung the UK and Europe and the sound controls in the UK put in place because of dithering moaners is getting rediculous. it's driving festival goers away. you don't get the local people near Dance Vally in Holland moaning about a couple of nights noise when roughly 30 millon euros is injected into their local ecconomy every year. Quit berating and think of your local business' that enjoy that little cash injection every August Bank Holiday.

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SickAndTired2 says...
8:55am Mon 3 Sep 12

Oh dear.... notatcreamfields in "going off on a completely irrelevant tangent" shocker... He never fails to amaze with how he can somehow glue too wholly separate issues together...

Creamfields and corporate tax dodging havens have nothing to do with each other..

Yet more sensationalist, garbled and inaccurate rantings...

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nextdoor says...
2:44pm Mon 3 Sep 12

I really don't see how much tax someone pays is relevant to an article regarding refunds. People are getting their money back, end of.

On another note, you'd be pretty gutted now if you'd bought your ticket off ebay ... the person who sold the ticket on will be made up though!

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Daresbury1 says...
9:52pm Mon 3 Sep 12

andi78 wrote:
@ old codger

IT'S THREE DAYS MAN GET A GRIP (technically 2 of music as friday is silent disco day). the money that a festival of this size can inject into a local community is amazing. and the good it does for warrington as a town is surely worth a couple of nights worth of music. I have worked many festivals aroung the UK and Europe and the sound controls in the UK put in place because of dithering moaners is getting rediculous. it's driving festival goers away. you don't get the local people near Dance Vally in Holland moaning about a couple of nights noise when roughly 30 millon euros is injected into their local ecconomy every year. Quit berating and think of your local business' that enjoy that little cash injection every August Bank Holiday.
andi78... What a load of rubbish you talk! Injecting millions in to the local economy???

The landowner no longer lives anywhere the site that he has earned millions from through Creamfields, and most of the concession stands come from miles away. Most of the site workers travel with the festivals, so add nothing to the local economy as they live in caravans and tents.

Sure, a few local taxi drivers may earn a bit and a few hundred people may stay in nearby hotels, but if you think that Creamfields adds anything significant to the local economy, you are very much mistaken.

Also, local businesses (pubs, restaurants etc) are inaccessible over Creamfields weekend, so there are thousands of pounds of lost revenue there.

Forget tax dodging multinationals like Vodafone... what's wrong with this country is the people making a few quid from a bit of property (whether it's a dance festival or building a few shoddy houses on greenbelt) whilst contributing nothing to the economy.

andi78... if you can name a few LOCAL businesses that have really benefitted from Creamfields, along with a realistic estimate of how much they've made, I'll buy you all the beer you can drink in the pub of your choosing.

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Daresbury1 says...
9:55pm Mon 3 Sep 12

On which note, I'm still annoyed that WG pulled my post regarding the hundreds of tons of human sewage that these revellers have been playing in last weekend.

I'm amazed that young people are allowed to sleep, eat and party on land that has been heavily contaminated by greedy farmers pumping human waste in to the ground.

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Threeeggomlette says...
2:41pm Tue 4 Sep 12

mr dave k wrote:
cream is not some off shore giant like vodafone,it's owned by james barton,who set the club up from nothing,worked his way to the top and he still lives in cheshire,so he cannot be compared to vodafone,also a lot of local business get work from this event from printing companies to local taxi drivers,,
i think you'll find he sold it to Live Nation for £13m and move to America to set up the cream brand out there.

Printing of laminates etc is done by a southern based company and most cabs were from Liverpool as they were hackneys. Not many took festival goers from stations as festival organisers put on a shuttle bus

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andi78 says...
1:27pm Wed 5 Sep 12

@ Daresbury1

1, i never once said creamfields injected millions i acctually said "dance vally in HOLLAND" as an example.

2, off the top of my head starting local and widening.
Walton Arms, Red Lion, the hollow tree, Daresbury Park Hotel, Park royal hotel, the village hotel, various local Taxi and Mini bus/executive travel services that are hired through C I events to ferry acts and DJ to and from various hotels/airports local police ambulance and fire services which are contracted and officers are paid via overtime to work, St johns Ambulance that recieve substantial funding from the event. not to mention Warrington Borough Transport who provide the shuttle buses warrington and Halton Borough councils that recieve funding through licencing etc. C I events always utilise a local Motor dealeship for onsite transport (Halliwell Jones BMW) and where possible local people are used for staffing such as marshalls and drivers through warrington job centre and agencies (less travel costs for staff) maybe you have a point about food vendors and such but you have to remember that the majority of these business' wouldn't be localised anyway as they are street vending or special event vendors that have to pay at least a couple of grand to be on site in the first place. People are alowed off site during the weekends and are subject to searches and many do leave for breakfast and lunch hence local pubs are always busy during the weekend. Having worked many CF events i happen to know the vast majority of staff who work on site such as sound engineers tour management and such stay in local hotels or B&B's with only the few that need to be on call on site staying in tents but they are few and far between.
let me put it this way. I'm pretty sure that if creamfields wasn't benificial to the local ecconomy then it wouldn't be allowed to take place.

3, you mention the land owner making millions from the event not living in the area. to be fair he has made millions more from selling off one of the towns biggest employer business' causing hundreds of local people to loose thier jobs/homes only to sell the land/ build houses on it and sell off for more money which i would have thought would have irritated you a little more than young people enjoying them selves in a field for three days of the year. i'm pretty sure the ressidents in the imediate surroundings don't mind too much seeing as they're pretty well looked after during the events and are more than fairly compensated for the disruption.

All in all, pLease don't tell me what i do and don't know.

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