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Not that I'm condoning the behaviour of the Twestival organisers, but I find it hard to sympathise with the venue, given that they continued reserving the date
by chrismear 17y ago
Not that I'm condoning the behaviour of the Twestival organisers, but I find it hard to sympathise with the venue, given that they continued reserving the date for 'months' with no contract and no deposit paid. They took a risk on a clearly flakey client, and it didn't pay off.
- thaumaturgy 17y agoYeah. Sometimes you try to avoid having to do business the way everyone else does, and sometimes it costs you, which sucks.
- dtf 17y agoThe client was doing for charity. Which, as I'm sure many people know from experience, gives them carte blanche to be arseholes.
- idlewords 17y agoYes, and a name like 'Twestival' should automatically translate to double deposit, cash only please.
- notaddicted 17y agoHe does mention at the start that promoters are mostly like this, so it wasn't the red flag that it sounds like.
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- nir 17y ago"We sent a contract, and asked for a deposit. Months went by. A few times they asked when they could stop by to drop off the deposit, but never actually did so." The venue's actions seem pretty reasonable to me. They gave the organizers some slack, assuming these are basically decent people. It's not like they're dealing with some unknown or shady operation. Still, discovering a Twitter-related operation turned out to be much noise/little signal shouldn't be that surprising :)