Event Calendar RSVP, Show Cost Field, says Free still

Beaver Themer
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Hello! Using Modern Tribe’s Event Calendar and the Events Tickets plugin. Trying to do RSVP-only with Price displayed (no e-commerce/tickets). Attendees pay at the door.

Per Event Cal’s forums, I installed their extension (https://theeventscalendar.com/extensions/show-cost-field/) so I could set a Price (RSVP = free otherwise).

That now makes it a $5 event say “Free - 5” . Obviously no one wants this, so there’s tons on the Support Forum re: removing the “Free -” before the price. Everyone had luck with the following PHP, as did I, until I customized the Event Single with Themer. The following PHP no longer works.

add_filter( 'tribe_get_cost', 'tribe_remove_free_text_from_cost_range', 10, 3 );

function tribe_remove_free_text_from_cost_range( $cost, $post_id, $with_currency_symbol ) {
return str_replace( 'Free', '', $cost );

}

Example here: http://staging.thehelpfulmarketer.com/calendar/lunch-n-learn-july2019/ Tried doing Connect, tried Insert and Event Cost from Themer Modules.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

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I gave up on this.
Already using PODS so I just added a new currency field for price. Not worried about schema either, so whatevs.

Leaving this open because it’s not resolved. I know there are others using Themer and Event Calendar, so if someone figures this out, please share.

FYI - this was a non-issue when using Gutenberg for Events. In blocks, you can totally add a Price/Cost to an Event with RSVP, no extension needed and no "FREE - " prefix on the price. just turn on the block editor in Event > Settings and drag the Price block into your event.
I didn’t want the client to be able to remove/add fields because it’s a Themer template though, so I reverted to Classic Editor for Events.