True, but compared to accommodations it’s chump change.Not IMO. I think your odds of having to cancel the trip (weather, work, health, family, mechanical) far outweigh the meager savings they offer for early purchase.
To my knowledge there's never much point to buying them in advance unless they've improved the process to trade the receipts in for the wrist bands. You might as well buy on site. Frankly, if you're camping (either in Scholler or on field), it's trivially easy to get them at the same time you get your camping credentials.
Of course, I've not paid for either in years (this is what volunteering a couple of hundred hours each show gets you).
I am. In fact, I just started on the 2022 show planning with one of my counterparts. I'll usually have 40 or so hours before I even get to Oshkosh. I'll arrive a full week before the show and start setting up because I'm in volunteer management and the volunteers start showing up in earnest then (some have been there even longer than that).You must be part of the planning/set up to put that many hours into a 7 day event every year. Sounds like a fun project, but a lot of work, too.
I am. In fact, I just started on the 2022 show planning with one of my counterparts. I'll usually have 40 or so hours before I even get to Oshkosh. I'll arrive a full week before the show and start setting up because I'm in volunteer management and the volunteers start showing up in earnest then (some have been there even longer than that).