The Environmentally Friendly Festival Solution | Dragons' Den 

The people leaving tents aren’t leaving them because they want less stuff in the car. They’re leaving them because they’re too hungover to deal with it. This guy needs to pass out tents for a fee. Then when the festival is over pick up all the tents left over clean them and use them again.

so now we know how Theo's children spend their father's inheritance

The same people who would leave a tent are the same people who, if they did find the energy to pack it up, would rather take it with them and save some $$$ instead of paying for an expensive shipping service. A rental service with a deposit would make way more sense... could see a lot of people going for that.

Just rent tents out at the festival and put £50 deposits on them.

He's over complicating the entire process, completely unnecessarily. Have a team stationed at each festival ready to hire out these kits, and at the end of the festival have a slightly larger team ready to go around and pack them all up. You can have a pre booking website so goers can ensure the availability, but also have an excess number so people can rent them on the spot too. You would need a credit card hold with a replacement fee for damaged or stolen kits, which is a set replacement price of the 75 quid. That's incentive enough that people will take care of them, and protects you from the inevitable drunk and rowdy damage. This would also apply if the tents have been soiled with bodily fluids, been thrown up in etc. The mud and dirt is a fact of festivals, and the renters wouldn't incur any fees for that. After the festival, you take back all the kits to the warehouse, have a crew clean them up and be ready for the next festival. With this level of convenience, I think people would be happy to pay up to 50 quid for the rental, and you only need the kit to average 2 uses before needing replacement to be profitable. The extra costs of an onsite team to do this work will be more efficient than country wide delivery and return after every festival. Once this service becomes well known, you could imagine a very high percentage of the people will use it over carrying all their own gear. It amazes me this isn't already a business, it seems like something that could be very successful and have global potential.

I think a better solution would be to make a deal with the festival organisers to provide a rent-a-tent service, where your tent is pitched for you before you arrive, and taken down after you leave. Transportation would be logistically simpler and less expensive too.

Sara was spot on with this. He's not solving the problem

Deborah would be proud of the way they’re recycling these clips

'Large festival in Berkshire', we know you meant Reading, lol.

Sara is right - the incentive to take tents back home is to make them light, and easy to put up and down...

The easy solution is to just be a service company. Rent the tents at the beginning then when the festival is over and they are just left there, the company retrieves their property or if they are not returned or missing the company charges the renter.

I think the only solution to the problem is all festivals hire the tents out with a big deposit and nobody brings tents. Something like this.

Waiting for that lift at the end must be a bit awkward

So what if the tent has mud all over it, outside and inside, and some drunk person puked in it. They just pack it up and send it to their place? Like how would they make any money on this? Lmao I don't get this business at all.

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Sarah Davies is correct. The festival go-ers are too effing lazy to bother and Peter and Theo are also right. Even though they are millionnaires, their children are on a tight budget. If ANYBODY has the choice between spending 10 quid each or 30 plus quid each ....... FAIL. And he still hasn't understood that every single one of them understood his crappy concept !

I would think anyone not inclined to take their tent with them wouldn't be bothered to pack it up & return it either but then I'm more of a state fair kind of gal myself.

@12:00 i wasnt expecting Sara to zip the tent shut and rip out a tyneside stinker to gas the fellow dragons! lmao

Sara hit the nail on the head. How many people pack their stuff up then just leave it there. How many tents are left set up on that picture? The issue is not packing stuff up in the first place

There’s a business here and that is going to the festival when it’s over and putting all them tents in the back of a van and reselling them 🤷🏻‍♂️

God forbid your kids just clean up after themselves.

This is the worst business model ever. Isn't the solution obvious? Just have a kiosk at the festival where you rent out the tents. Have people pay a fee but also a big deposit that they'll only get back if they return everything in good condition. If they don't return it, the business keeps the deposit AND goes out afterward to collect up all the tents that haven't been returned. What this guy is suggesting is unnecessarily confusing. Ship it back to your house so you can carry it to a festival, and you'll have to pack it up again. It doesn't solve the problem at all.

This is an already small market and it’s a one time purchase. Doesn’t sound like it could be something huge. Never mind the fact it’s a bad idea

Back in the 80's this leaving the tent behind was happening, people who leave their stuff at festies won't be using this service cos that's what they do, don't care, those who don't leave tents at festivals won't use to service cos they are already decent people.

Simply perpetuating the problem. Encouraging laziness, or rather betting on it. And Debra was 100% correct, it's the packing up bit that makes people willing to walk away from their tent, not the transporting it back home. Ridiculous.

Where on earth is Peter’s family buying their festival tents from? A £20 tent wouldn’t survive a single night at Glastonbury! Everyone I’ve known to ever go, buys a tent for at least £250. We got a nice 8 person one for £465 once and that lasted us the full 5 days.

Awesome idea

Opening music sounds like a Nintendo game menu

The only thing they had that might motivate people to bother using their service is the reward system for not abandoning your tent… and according to their website they’re not offering that system this year (assuming the website is up to date).

Tge fesrivals need to Tag every tent going into the festival at the gate, with the owners info. If left behind, charge them. Problem solved.

The solution - rent-a-tent.

When you go to a festival you buy a new tent , when you leave the tent is left behind deliberately like a flag of attendance . Most partygoers assume the council will pick it up. So there’s no consumer demand for a service that sends them a tent back unless it’s to argue it’s not the tent they had at the festival and this ones all broken. There’s no easy business here

Jenny-"I'm actually skint, hence I don't invest in anything. However, I live in a 1 bedroom flat on Bury new road In Manchester, above Sadiqs kebab shop, so I don't need a tent..I'M OUT !!".

Soooo I can just come to these events clean it up and resell these

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The only way you can solve this is teach an entire new generation of personal responsibility. Could take up to 50 years. Peter is a multi millionaire and his daughter is buying a £20 quid tent (which I have never seen at that price) , how tight is he to allow that.

We charge $1500 for 3days use of our tents that We install, packdown & keep

Come on Debra I will take you camping ⛺️ in 65mph winds and a lot of wine 🍷 🤣⛰🇬🇧

How long does it take to pack up a tent and your stuff, even if you are hung over, coming down or vomiting from that last kebab. 15 minutes maximum?

20 quid for camping equipment? Sounds like bullshit.

75% in exchange of 20%? Really? I would just go, show up in TV, and sell nothing of my company. That way I am getting free exposure and showing other investors I am not cheap

The problem isn't the tents it's the mass amount of litter that gets left behind

Surely the model should be to return the tent and keep the tent under the companies control, until the owner wants to go to a festival again?

he's made a business that doesn't solve the problem he started the business for lol

Because it's more costly to leave your tent that's why you'll be forced to pack them. That's his point I guess.

If they cba packing it and carrying it to the car, they also cba packing it and carrying it to the drop off point and then walking back to the car lol

Company is now worth 3.2 million vbucks

What happens when this scales up and you cant tell your tent from the other 200 at the festival?

His concept is complete nonsense. The real solution is for a company to come in, erect tents at the start of the festival and take them away after. That company would own the tents. The festival goers will likely never take a tent down.

This is a character and ethical problem. So much for young people wanting to save the planet. The throw away mentality prevails.

Sounds like all this kids, spoiled party kids from rich dragons go and party and polite environment leaving tents there with various excuses. Time to sit down with them and have a talk.

It’s so sad when people’s ego doesn’t allow them to see the flaws in their products, a bias delusion wasting their money an time.

guy has never been hungover , end of story

Renting tents idea might work . Currently idea does not work

Where's Jenny?

Early for once haven't seen this 1 I don't think 😊😊

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I’d just use my hands for the pegs, I’ve been to over a 100 festival’s and it’s pretty basic.

What does wearing make up feel like? does your face feel warmer or?

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I hope he's doing ok

They leave their family their wife their g.f too

Companies House shows they've only ever filed Dormant Company Accounts, meaning they never started trading.

His intent wasn't serious enough and his intention lacked grounding. And didn't I detect just a bit of campishness?😁!

Looks like Jenny's OUT before she's even in to be out......

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I feel like this guy could have explained his business much more clearly. Three levels. 1. Basic, you buy the kit online which is delivered to your home--no other services provided. 2. Beginner: you buy the kit, like the Basic level, but you ship it to their warehouse when you're ready to attend a festival. It's then delivered to the festival HQ and when you're done, you drop it off at festival HQ, who ships it back to your home (seems like a lot of shipping). 3. He never explained the "best" service. It's actually pretty complicated and it took me more than one viewing to work it out. I don't think any of the dragons actually understood the whole thing.

This guy isn’t the brightest

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