Flanvention II being cancelled?!?!
POSTED BY: embers
UPDATED: Thursday, November 30, 2006 19:49
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OMG, the special lunch tickets!
I never even thought about those.
I was figuring that Booster Events took in around $250,000. for this sold out event, but it is true that that figure could have been much higher.
I am very grateful to all the southern Calif Browncoats who are trying to salvage what they can of this weekend, I plan to go ahead and go, enjoy the Hilton, and enjoy the company of such wonderful fans.
Of course I still hope that the organizers can find some way to put on the convention as advertised, but if not then I plan to pursue BE to the fullest extent of the law.
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*is having a Big Damn panic attack.
Edit: I just looked at the Terms of Agreement that I copied from the site when I bought my tickets. It states:
"Refunds will be issued if the event is cancelled, but not in the event of guest cancellations..."
The rest of that sentence is just like you can't get your money back if you end up not being able to come etc.
I guess it's a flicker of hope that provided they do cancel it, refunds will be issued...but it won't quell my anger. 
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FYI, if they don't have the $ to pay for the event the $ was meant for, they won't have the $ to issue refunds either.
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Ug, forgot about that part until a few minutes ago...shoulda popped back in to edit...again.
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Well, this is a fine cosmic clusterf
k to come home to after a week away for the holiday! 
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My nightmare scenario:
1) BE announces "financial problems"
2) Guests (Nathan et al) panic and cancel their appearances
3) BE says, Flan 2 is NOT canceled, so you can't get refunds
4) BE can't be touched legally because they had a public policy of "no refunds when guests cancel"
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I'm pointin' right at it!
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Quote:
Originally posted by theonetruebix:
FYI, if they don't have the $ to pay for the event the $ was meant for, they won't have the $ to issue refunds either.
Ok, then where did the money go?
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This sucks.
Granted my flight was free because of freqent flyer miles, but hello I still paid for the ticket. If it's cancelled, I'll talk to the girl I'm supposed to room with and see what she's up to.
I mostly just need to get away from WI right now before I freak out even though leaving is going to compound the stress . . ..
I have family to visit, so no matter what I'm still going to california I just might be out a bunch of money I didn't want to be.
F***ers
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Quote:
Originally posted by Kelai:
Ok, then where did the money go?
there is some evidence to indicate that they used the money from Flan2 to put on the two previous conventions (the Neptune Noir and Halloween BE Scary events) which did not sell enough tickets....
so rather than cancel those conventions, and risk disappointing 100 fans (or so)
they instead siphoned off the money from THIS convention and will disappoint 500 fans!
Of course I don't know that for sure, but it seems to be the working theory....
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Well, Denise of BE herself said, in a Livejournal discussion about one of those other cons: "Yep, despite poor ticket sales, Booster Entertainment continues with it's history of never cancelling a guest."
That can only happen if the money came from somewhere else, since it obviously didn't come from the ticket sales. So, either they used the Flan money or they got a loan (which of course itself would need to be paid back from somewhere, and it isn't hrd to see that somewhere being the Flan money).
It's speculation. But it's speculation based on observation.
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