Is my event eligable for a not-for-profit discount?
What is the difference between a commercial user and a domestic user?
All of our dinner party games games are listed on our website under a domestic license price, this allows you to play once in a private (home) setting. And we know this is most of our customers and we love you all.
Dinner parties are NOT permitted to be used for commercial profit. And if you are a commercial group planning to use our dinner parties for commercial gain. Just remember… we’re a murder mystery company…
Seriously though – there are loyal customers of ours all over the world and as a result we do get occasionally emails from people reporting misuse. When this happens we get in touch with you. And the last thing you want is a big bill from our solicitors.
However we LOVE supporting not-for-profit organisations fund raising! Whether this is registered charities or non-registered groups like PTAs, or social clubs. We like helping you raise funds for your school, charity, church or theatre group and we will provide you with a 65% discount code to use on our script fees to help you raise the maximum amount from your event. (this takes nearly £100 or more off the list price of some scripts – some scripts we even supply FREE that’s how much we love supporting fundraisers!
If aren’t profiteering from an author’s work – they are happy to support you too! It spreads the word about their great games, and no one is earning “on the side” from their personal endeavours.
BUT…. if you’re a hotel, venue, event management company or theatre group or similar and selling tickets to your event, or you’re looking to make a profit from the evening (including from your additional bar-takings) then you’ll need a commercial licence – which is the list price on our large group scripts.
This is only fair. As rather than running the event for just enjoyment for you and friends you are actually using it for commercial gain – thereby removing the author”s ability to sell events or other games within your region, and preventing another event management company (who is operating under the correct license) to sell their evening – which means the author loses money, and you can put our wonderful license holding firms out of business too.
If you run the event more than once (perhaps as a theatre group hosting in several different village or church halls over a season) You’ll need to speak to us about licensing it for more than one use. This is true if you’re buying commercially or as a charity.
All scripts sold on our website are licensed are for SINGLE PERFORMANCE. So do speak to us if you need a multi-use license. The prices for those vary. A great deal depends on numbers of guests involved each time and how much profit is expected from the events. We aren’t unreasonable. We know that a small guest house just isn’t in the same league as a hotel venue that sits 500 and we look at each case on a case by case basis.
If you’re in any doubt which license you need, or if you want to use a kit more than once – just give us a ring. Remember; we’re the loveliest assassins you’ll ever meet and we’re more than happy to help, support and compromise…so seriously, ring us.
We used to sell our large group scripts with an honesty policy – and had them all available at their fundraising prices. But after numerous annoymous letters, emails and phone calls from concerned customers – we took the decision in 2018 to change the way we list our large group scripts – and now you can only access them on commercial rates unless you get in touch for a special code.
If we pay our authors correctly they are happy folks, eating healthily, enjoying what they do and doing it more, so that we have loads of great games for you to play. Baked beans are over rated and we don’t want our authors living in poverty. We just hope you agree.