BOOSTER EVENTS RELAUNCHED THEIR SITE
POSTED BY: Chindi
UPDATED: Thursday, December 14, 2006 15:11
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well.. will wonders never cease?
BE relaunched their website
here is the link to a forum on the flan cancellation
http://www.boosterevents.com/Community/Forums/tabid/326/forumid/54/pos
tid/39311/view/topic/Default.aspx
notice it is started by Vicki who supposedly divested herself of her interest in Booster...
the post says:
"12/10/2006 9:13 PM Quote Reply Alert
Booster Entertainment would like to apologize to everyone for the great inconvenience that was imposed on all this past weekend. We understand everyone has questions, which we will try and answer in a timely fashion. The website has been put back up per customer request.
We again apologize for our poor notice in the cancellation of the Flanvention.
Booster Entertainment will not answer personal emails nor PMs, but will answer everyone in the open forums. Please do not post foul language or threats as those posts will be deleted. Please also allow for the heavy site traffic in waiting for responses.
Sincerely,
Booster Entertainment "
Other sites are reporting that the BDH's said they NEVER were officially contracted to appear...
IF that is true, and I suspect there is a lot of information come, then there would be a question of fraud.
Chindi
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How ridiculous. This isn't in the news section or the front page, but shoved into the forums. Easy enough to find for somebody who's stubborn/lucky enough, but something like this should be a little more... right in front. Obvious. Etc. And an official statement? No, this isn't an explanation. Why they must be asked questions on a forum in order to explain the fiasco doesn't make sense. It's pretty gorram obvious what everybody wants to know - it doesn't take a mind reader or even a ruttin' Q&A session to figure it out.
This, plus the ridiculous financial situation and the communication issues between the BDH's and BE, just screams FRAUD.
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As an outside observer (I did not pay and/or attend the Flan/Backup Bash), I hope that Booster Events is taken down hard for this. I hope all the Browncoats get their money back and I hope that Booster Events goes out of business. Everyone who works for them should be ashamed to be in the event business and should immediately resign and seek another career choice. What they did is completely inexcusable and corrupt. And that's without even knowing if any of them have pocketed cash that they don't plan on returning.
I hope they are sued until the lint from their pockets is taken from them and/or prosecuted in the appropriate courts for theft and fraud. I hope someone with connections in the event and convention business (they should have member organizations and newsletters, correct?) spreads the story on this debacle so that no one who works for them gets hired in the business elsewhere. And I hope a court in the Burbank/Santa Clara/Los Angeles is soon made aware of this. I'd keep every receipt and immediately request relevant statements from each bank, credit card company, hotel, or airline and keep them ready. This was plain and simple FRAUD and they should be prosecuted civilly and criminally.
I may be a tangent opinion to the majority of the Browncoats, but that's how I feel and I had to state it somewhere. I hope the people taken in this fiasco get their money back and the people of Booster Events never work in this field again.
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As one who DID plunk down a lot of hard-earned cash for Flanvention 2, I would certainly agree that a full explanation is in order. Undoubtedly it won't be forthcoming, however, since there would be legal ramifications.
I think there will certainly be lawsuits as a result of this fiasco. Failure to deliver on a fully prepaid event seems to me to be at the very least gross mismanagement. Then again, IANAL.
As far as BE's future, I think it's pretty obvious there isn't one, except as respondent in various court proceedings. Who in their right mind would trust these people with a red cent after this?
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Who's running this outfit, gorramn Pat Lee?!?
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bump
chindi
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Bumping for folks who need to see this.
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Bumping and agreeing with other posters, Booster Events needs to be taken down like the slimy dogs they are (course saying that is an insult to the canine community and I apologize for that).
I can't believe the utter gall to announce other events and think a simple apology will make it better.
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I think Nathan was never contacted (ala his myspace). People like Jewel were and made plans (ala her blog http://users.ev1.net/~alternity/abadeo/jewel_staite/Jewel.html)
BE should be held libal... I am happy that the fans got a fancy back up event even though it was canceled. That was AMAZING.
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My favorite part:
"The website has been put back up per customer request."
Customers?! What customers?! Those people you stole money from?!
Oh, right...them...
Flan B kicked ass though! Hooray for the California 'Coats!!!
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