Why does the world and their dog think that eFestivals is here to provide their organisation with a special and personal service for free?

Very regularly, eFestivals gets emails from research assistants who want to get us to do their research for them. Very often, the info they're after is easily available and easily findable on the website, but they can't even be bothered to look. Not only that, they are very often offended at being told that us doing work for their commercial benefit will cost them.

Then there's governmental organisations. Just because they're an arm of govt they think the world is at their command, even more so if they're an arm of govt that's used to having people jump on their command (hello old bill! ). Taxes are paid by individuals and companies so that these arms of govt have a budget with which they're able to operate in the commercial world by buying in services when needed - so cough up or go away.

If we were sat here all day twiddling thumbs then perhaps they'd get what they want. As we're not, we're not going to put down what we're doing that pays the bills to do what you're too lazy to do yourselves.

Alongside our charitable commitment of giving at least 1% of our turnover (turnover, not profit) to charities eFestivals is happy to help many non-governmental and non-profit organisations for free, but to all other organisations the answer is no.