Baycon is a SF convention where a pair of authors had to cancel. They were GoH's, but they're not the whole convention.
Torchsong is a John Barrowman con. It runs on a Creation-style model. I saw TV ads on SpikeTV promoting this as "Barrowman's only North American appearance" last week. People paid $150 for a cabaret ticket on top of their event pass (if they didn't buy the $500 premium ticket that included the cabaret). And then there were the "auction seats" that sold for somewhere in the neighborhood of $1k.
Now people are being told that they can't get refunds. I forsee a lot of credit card disputes.
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Date: 2009-06-05 05:53 am (UTC)Baycon is a SF convention where a pair of authors had to cancel. They were GoH's, but they're not the whole convention.
Torchsong is a John Barrowman con. It runs on a Creation-style model. I saw TV ads on SpikeTV promoting this as "Barrowman's only North American appearance" last week. People paid $150 for a cabaret ticket on top of their event pass (if they didn't buy the $500 premium ticket that included the cabaret). And then there were the "auction seats" that sold for somewhere in the neighborhood of $1k.
Now people are being told that they can't get refunds. I forsee a lot of credit card disputes.