drgarygc

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Dear Avsim Friends, I am so sad that you have so quickly cancelled the Fancon (or was it Fancom?). I not only registered with you, paid by paypal, but also purchased two airline tickets to Washington Dulles :-( trusting you. I have been able to cancel our hotel reservations. So I will lose at least $300, but the disappointment is greater. I greatly enjoyed the Fancon at Denver a few years ago, and would certainly have attended the one in Orlando, FL, if held. ~ You did not get sufficient early registrations, for what I think as the main reasons, because (1) you only casually pushed the act of registering, and (2) your prices were too high. Your announcements, if I recall, asked people to register by September, so you actually may have a thousand fans in the wings saying, Oh well, when it gets close to September, then I'll register. The way to have big events successfully attended is to determine that you will have it no matter how many attend. Then in a few years it will continue to build up. You also in the beginning should have charged less for your pre-social and final dinner, and venders should have been charged less--high charges telegraph a signal that only the wealthy elite are welcome. You should at least have had an Emergency Registration Call, with reduced rates for all who register within the next three weeks before cancelling. Were your administrative costs too high? Were you sending too many people at company expense and paying their airfares and hotel costs, plus an honorarium? That can be controlled. Also there is no need for you now to announce that you will never have another Fancon. You could have one at a moderate cost hotel near your home headquarters, charge the vendors only a small fee, and it could be a great success. Guys at Avsim, we love you, but you filed a Flight Plan for the Fancom, and as soon as you took off, you saw some clouds and weather in the sky, got scared, and quickly made an uncalled for emergency landing back at base. The experienced pilots are giggling, and saying, They must be beginners, real wonderful people, but they really didn't study enough on how to fly a Fancon. ~ We love the work that you do, and the Avsim website is wonderful. (Except you have made the Forums much too complicated.) If advertised right, you can run a Fancom, run it locally if you need to, keep it at low cost especially to vendors, and the pre-party need not even have a charge beyond saying Cash Bar. The final dinner could be $30 each. You made some basic mistakes in running it and advertising and these can all be changed. We want a Fancon (or Fancom?). ~ Cordially, Gary C., Col ret., USAR