Fàilte, Monk, and thank you for introducing yourself.
Just so you know, or maybe you do know, there are cultural and spiritual groups for the various European and Celtic earth-honoring cultures that are far more accurate and traditional than OBOD ("Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids"), and who don't charge money to participate in culture or ceremony.
It's not really a question of how much you get for how much you pay, it's more the issues around commodification of spiritual experience, or charging to participate in community, and what that does to people, cultures and traditions. The general belief here is that culture and spirituality is grassroots and interdependent, that access must be earned not bought, and commodifying it causes all sorts of problems. We have lots of threads on here about this issue, however, so rather than retread it all here, I recommend you read the pinned threads, and even search from the main page on issues around paying.
Are the OBODies still doing Wiccan/pretendian sweats? Last I heard, they had spawned some sellers of pretendian/faux-Celtic ceremonies with that.
