Try $250 to $750
Yeah, that sounds more like what these people charge.
I must have had a bout of hysterical blindness on the zero.
Tamara, are you still around? If I can get a screen and some space for people to sit there, there's a guy, who wrote a thing, and there's other stuff.
What a love.
I am planning to go to the hotel Saturday night and buy a round for all Browncoats. That is the least I can do, when what I really want to do is hurt some people.
More love.
Simon from Whedonesque removed the item (thank you, Simon!). It was bullshit - I know for a fact the guests were still cancelled. I do not understand why they kept saying the event was still on.I hope Simon saved a copy of the page, somewhere, because this is an issue of fraud at this point, not that fans will ever be able to collect from Booster Events, itself.
I hope most people paid with credit cards.
The thing that REALLY pisses me off is that two weeks ago, it was clear there were massive problems. Yet they promised the event was back on. Two weeks ago there were backup plans being put in place. Right now, the hotel won't even give James etc the space (they're waiting on legal clearance).
That's what burned me, when I was reading through what I could find. The fans already worked out an alternate plan, and then canceled it, because BE said it was back on.
Basically, BE gave people about a few hours notice of the cancellation in the end. I'm sure other things will happen, but not as planned as before.
I hope the contingency plans end up being wonderful beyond the fans' dreams. Looking at the narrative from a distance, it is a very Firefly moment, with a slice of Buffy birthday cake.
They basically really fucked about with people. I'm slightly worried about the amount of money we're talking about here, also - it's well into 6 figures worth of ticket sales for the event, and there's things like creditors (they openly said they got loans for the event), lifetime ticket holders ($5000 each!) etc.
If they got loans, the fans shouldn't count on getting a penny back, directly. The creditors will get any money that's left, first. The poor fans who paid for lifetime tickets. Talk about a fool and his money. Gah. I can't stand that someone did this to a group of fans. Knowing the organizers are also fans makes it unbelievably worse.
I'm not even going to Flan. But I'm still with Allyson on this one. If I'd been going, seriously, I'd be going nuts I think.
Oh, yeah. I'm going nuts sitting here, with my money in my pocket.
What I don't understand is the fact that they have run events that have come off, in the past, so it's not like they don't know what goes into it. It's not like they don't have the ability to get it done.
What happened to the bloody money?