RFID?

[LilyRose]

What do you think of the use of RFID Technology at festivals?

For my dissertation I'm researching Consumer Perceptions of RFID Wristbands.
For a comprehensive study I need as much responses as I can get and I am hoping that a few of you here would like to share your perceptions by filling out this short (5 mins max.) survey.

Eternal gratitude and karma in return!
Thanks!

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1558859/cc5c34319a99

Edited March 10, 2014 by LilyRose

[t8yman]

done, quick, easy and painless. Well thought out questions too. Good luck.

[LilyRose]

Thank you, much appreciated!

[atomised]

Completed. Have you contacted the organisers of alt fest at all. I believe they are issuing RFID wristbands for admission to the site.

[eFestivals]

What do you think of the use of RFID Technology at festivals?

that any festival that uses them will not be selling me a ticket.

[eFestivals]

Completed. Have you contacted the organisers of alt fest at all. I believe they are issuing RFID wristbands for admission to the site.

oh goodie, that's very "alternative" of them, yeah? To make the whole thing concentration camp-like.

[t8yman]

My thoughts exactly as I was filling in the survey. They aren't a good thing (as my survey answers said). I go to festivals to escape, not be enslaved by social media and someone knowing when I fancied a pint, how many rounds I bought, who I was moving around with etc etc.

[windy_miller]

Done. I hope that shit never turns up at glasto.

[kaosmark2]

not be enslaved by social media

I find it really really bizarre how people still bother with it when at festivals.

[windy_miller]

I find it really really bizarre how people still bother with it when at festivals.

I find it bizarre that people bother with it at all.

[jump]

I find it really really bizarre how people still bother with it when at festivals.

I start mocking my mates in the pub when they start pissing about with twitter/facebook let alone at a fest.

[kaosmark2]

I find it bizarre that people bother with it at all.

Well I use it as lots of my friends are twats enslaved to it and don't check their e-mail/send me stuff via it. I don't really object too heavily to it when sat at a computer or in a waiting room but:

I start mocking my mates in the pub when they start pissing about with twitter/facebook let alone at a fest.

This. Anyone who pisses about with them when they're in a social environment is just ridiculous, and probably a twat.

[LondonTom]

Decent survey and a rather more intresting topic than brand awareness/why do you go to festivals that you get for most of these.

That said, as much as I find the tech intresting I don't really see what benfit I'd get out of to to give up that level of privacy, especially at a festival.

[t8yman]

The suggestion that festival checkins etc will be quicker are BS as we all know, the hold up is never tickets, its "let me rummage through your underpants and personal belongings" that is the hold up.

The only benefit to anyone, is to the organisers, so they can best work out marketing opportunities, and so they can pinpoint you as a previous smuggler of drinks into the arena, or if you have been stopped with a bag of green etc. thats all I can see.

I suppose cashless could be viewed as a benefit due to theft and losing your cash etc, but I'm not prepared to give up my privacy for that small potential benefit, and I doubt many would be, plus, I like to know how much money Ive got left, not leave it up to a server in the middle of a field to keep track of it for me.

Edited March 11, 2014 by t8yman

[windy_miller]

The only benefit to anyone, is to the organisers, so they can best work out marketing opportunities, and so they can pinpoint you as a previous smuggler of drinks into the arena, or if you have been stopped with a bag of green etc. thats all I can see.

This. I said pretty much the same thing in the "any other comments" part of the survey

[eFestivals]

This. I said pretty much the same thing in the "any other comments" part of the survey

yep - it gets sold to he punter as a benefit, but gives the punter no benefits but extra costs while the organiser gets cheaper costs.

[LilyRose]

Wow thank you guys, amazing response. Obviously I'm not able to share my own views on the subject right now but I really appreciate you taking the time to share your views with me!

[Spindles]

Totally agree that the benefit is only to the organiser.

I'm not one of those who is too concerned about the nefarious use of rfid in such situations, I can see that for crowd management it would be a boon, but the whole idea of gathering data on people for the purpose of increasing profitability is what it is really about and that is what I am opposed to, festivals are gatherings of people to party, not a reason to make money off those people. The problem with the festival business is the business.

[eFestivals]

I can see that for crowd management it would be a boon

Absolutely, but that by itself isn't reason enough to do it.

For example, for efficient management of government services you can't get a more sensible idea than a single ID or entitlement card - but should we do it?

[atomised]

So with alt fest having fallen by the wayside where will be next to attempt to bring RFID technology to festivals.

I can see it being download as they've often spoken of wanting to make Download cashless

[t8yman]

didnt realise altfest was rfid'd up. interesting.

[LondonTom]

Wireless in London already does it don't they? (Mainly as their sponsors are Barclay Card.)

I really hate this idea of one card to rule them all, which I figure if Festivals have it in wristbands, they will eventually go that route to.

Its like in London with cashless buses if you lose you contectless card/oyster then you are fucked as you can't just borrow a couple of quid of someone anymore to get the bus home if you lose your wallet say. (I do at the moment keep my Osyter card and wallet seperate but still..)

I've also learnt they will be introducing weekly price caping for pay as you go journeys on contactless bank cards but not Oyster once they go live...as part of a deal to encourage their use with the banks as take up has been slow. (Because like Festivals RFID has hardly any benifit to the consumer at the moment, so they have to force one.)

[eFestivals]

didnt realise altfest was rfid'd up. interesting.

the RFID companies are doing all they can to try and get business - including offering their products at a loss.

And still no none is interested. Long may this continue.

But hey, anyone who thinks it's a good idea should write a letter to the NHS asking when they are going to get chipped so that our evil politicans can track their every movement at any moment.

Oh hang on, they already do. Forget the chipping, we've all chipped ourselves.

[atomised]

Wasn't aware wireless used it. Is that actually for the wristbands that admit you.into the arena

[atomised]

http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/78990

A news story on the usage of RFID wristbands in the US