[lahwran]

As someone who went, I agree. I think most people who do it right now consider the high price to be a donation to help them scale, rather than an actual product-for-money trade. I'd pay $500, maybe, if I thought the marginal benefit they'd get from my going was negligible. That's how much conferences of that length usually cost, anyway. Also, it's totally right that the techniques aren't exactly the point - you don't go to a tech conference because you can't read about the things presented there elsewhere, you go because you won't focus enough on them. But it's definitely not 4k of value from the workshop, it's 3.5k of giving them momentum to refine and scale the org, and .5k of actual experience.