Taste of Christmas - excessively priced??

Got some free tickets and still felt it was a rip-off. Although I did get a free portion of Knorr rich beef stock pot.
 
glad now I didn't bother going! plus it made no sense having that foodie event plus the Food and Wine show at the RDS on that same weekend. Surely both aiming for the same people. I totally agree with the poster that paying money to be marketed at is not the way it should be done....