Events with no offers

[alza-bitz]

Hi there, I downloaded your data and ran a query to see the distribution of offer count per item, this is what I got:

[alex@deneb 2017-10-06T14:15:00Z]$ cd ~/Projects
[alex@deneb 2017-10-06T14:15:00Z]$ git clone https://github.com/imin-ltd/rpde-scripts.git
[alex@deneb 2017-10-06T14:15:00Z]$ cd ~/Projects/rpde-scripts
[alex@deneb 2017-10-06T14:15:00Z]$ mkdir -p provider/bookwhen/2017-10-06T14:15:00Z
[alex@deneb 2017-10-06T14:15:00Z]$ cd provider/bookwhen/2017-10-06T14:15:00Z
[alex@deneb 2017-10-06T14:15:00Z]$ pwd
/home/alex/Projects/rpde-scripts/provider/bookwhen/2017-10-06T14:15:00Z
[alex@deneb 2017-10-06T14:15:00Z]$ ../../../walk-rpde.sh https://bookwhen.com/api/openactive/event_types

...wait...

[alex@deneb 2017-10-06T14:15:00Z]$ jq -s '[.[].items[] | 
select(.state == "updated") | {numOffers: (.data.offer | length)}] |
 group_by(.numOffers) | 
[.[] | {numOffers: unique | .[].numOffers, count: length}]' rpde-*.json
[
  {
    "numOffers": 0,
    "count": 27
  },
  {
    "numOffers": 1,
    "count": 116
  },
  {
    "numOffers": 2,
    "count": 164
  },
  {
    "numOffers": 3,
    "count": 348
  },
  {
    "numOffers": 4,
    "count": 1
  },
  {
    "numOffers": 6,
    "count": 1
  }
]

Can you tell me, if an item has no offers (I counted 27), what does this mean? Does it mean the price is "free", or just that the price is unknown?

Thanks!

[jopotts]

If an offer is a ticket type that can be selected, then if there currently aren't any offers for an event then it might mean that none of the tickets are currently available. For example the event might be today, and tickets can only be selected a day before. Early bird type tickets would be the same.