A package INK's own blog called retired, still on the 2019 price list

INK's own archived event page, dated by the Wayback Machine to February 2018, says this about its two table-delivery packages: Since introducing our mile high VIP drinks package, our unique Ink concorde has dominated the clubs sky line taking over from the amazing Formula one bottle serve VIP table package. Read plainly, that sentence describes the Formula One package as something Mile High had already replaced by early 2018.

The 2019 packages page, dated roughly a year later, lists F-ONE as a live, bookable package at £900 for five bottles, with its own booking form underneath it. One page describes a package as superseded; a later page from the same site still sells it. This note reports both lines exactly as printed and does not pick a winner.

The 2018 page's own retirement language

Took over from is the phrase the 2018 page uses, not retired or discontinued in so many words, but the meaning in context is the same: the Formula One package is being described as a thing of the past, a package the venue used to run before Mile High became the headline option. The sentence sits inside the page's own account of its second year in business, framed as part of the club's growth story rather than as a neutral price-list update.

The same page never names a minimum spend or a bottle count for the Formula One package it describes as superseded, only that Mile High had taken its place. Whatever F-ONE originally cost or included, in 2018, is not stated on this page at all. A separate note in this wave reads the rest of that same 2018 page, which also carries the venue's own 85 per cent sell-out claim and its named weekly DJ schedule. Dominated the clubs sky line is the specific phrase the page uses for the Concorde's own presence, a stronger image than a simple statement that the package had replaced another.

The 2019 page's own continued listing

A year or so later, the packages page lists F-ONE Package, minimum spend £900, five bottles, with the full custom-car description a companion note in this wave quotes in full. Nothing on that page marks it as a reintroduction, a relaunch, or a returning offer. It is printed with the same formatting and the same booking form as Mile High beside it, as if it had never left.

No date or version note on the 2019 page acknowledges the 2018 page's own account of F-ONE's retirement. The two pages simply disagree, in the plain sense that one says a thing ended and the other, from a later date, shows the same thing for sale.

The 2019 page's own booking form treats F-ONE and Mile High identically: the same callback-time options, the same booking-type dropdown, the same terms-and-conditions checkbox. Nothing in the form's own structure singles out F-ONE as a package needing a special note about its earlier description as retired. A visitor filling in that form would have no way of knowing, from the form itself, that the package it is attached to had been described a year earlier as a thing of the past.

What could make both pages honestly true

A few explanations would let both pages stand without either one being wrong: the package could have been dropped after the 2018 post and reintroduced before 2019; the 2018 line could describe a shift in marketing emphasis rather than an actual withdrawal from the price list; or the two pages could simply have been written by different people at different times without checking the other's wording.

The archive gives no way to choose between these. What it shows directly is two dated pages from the same site making two different claims about the same named package, a year or so apart.

A fourth possibility, that the 2018 line was never strictly true even at the time it was written, and simply reflected which package the venue wanted to promote that season, cannot be ruled out either; the archive has no sales data from 2018 to check the claim against. None of these four explanations can be confirmed or ruled out from the two pages alone, which is exactly why this note reports the disagreement rather than resolving it.

Why this matters more than a simple price change

A price going up or down between 2018 and 2019 would not be surprising and would not need two separate notes. This is a page stating outright that a product had already been superseded, followed by a later page offering that exact product for sale again, with no acknowledgement either way. That is a stronger kind of disagreement than a changed number.

It also means a reader relying on the 2018 "took over from" line alone would have concluded, wrongly as far as the 2019 page shows, that F-ONE was no longer something to ask about, the same trap a companion note on INK's two custom vehicles avoids by reading both pages together rather than taking either one alone as the full picture. A single archived page, read on its own, can be perfectly accurate to its own moment and still mislead a reader who takes it as the whole, current story. That gap between one page's snapshot and the fuller picture across several pages is the reason this wave keeps pairing pages rather than quoting each one in isolation.

What this note does not claim

It does not claim F-ONE is available today; neither archived page is current, and this wave treats both as historical record only. It does not claim the 2018 page was lying, since marketing copy describing a shift in emphasis is a normal thing for a venue to write even while an older option technically remains bookable.

What it does claim is narrow and checkable: the word "took over from," printed on the venue's own 2018 page, does not match the plain fact of F-ONE's continued listing on the venue's own 2019 page. A Lancashire group reading only one of the two archived pages would come away with a different, incomplete picture than a group reading both, which is the main reason this wave treats the two pages as a pair rather than as two unrelated facts. Reading both before asking about either package remains the safest way to approach whatever INK actually offers tonight, rather than settling on one old page's own account of what is and is not still bookable, two years and one disagreement apart.

Questions

What did the 2018 page say happened to the Formula One package?

That Mile High had taken over from it, a phrase describing it as superseded by early 2018.

What does the 2019 page show instead?

F-ONE still listed as a bookable package, £900 minimum spend, five bottles, with its own booking form.

Does the archive explain the gap between the two claims?

No. Neither page refers to the other, and no note on either page marks a relaunch or a correction.