Thread: Convention Cancelled

Sorry guys,

I received the email below from Charlie Larman a couple of days ago. Prior to this I was not aware of any deadline and thought Charlie had it all handled including having banners made up and was preparing news releases, etc....We did have firm committments from Classic Shaving, Vintage Blades, TQH, Mamma Bear, Barberia Italia, Truefitt & Hill Corporate and I thought Charlie was following up on the table fees:

From:"Charlie Larman" To:"'Lynn Abrams'"
Subject: hotel rooms Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 11:22:32 -0400 I spoke to the hotel today…at this time there are no reservations for rooms…if people have registered they have not done so under the convention code…I need to know who they are so I can apply them to the 5 room guarantee…if they do not reserve rooms before aug 20 they will not get the 199 rate…I have no intention of getting stuck for five rooms…if no reservations are made before the 19 of aug I will withdraw my guarantee which will basically pull the plug on the convention…advise me on what you want to do…also I have not received any thing from vendors coming to this convention…if you have received money for tables you need to send the hotel 500 to pay for the meeting rooms…



As a result of this email, I called the hotel and made my reservation. I also called the Sales Director, Bernadette to see what was going on. She advised that Charlie had only asked the hotel to hold 5 rooms at the $199 price and that he had not requested any rooms for Friday night for the event. She indicated that the hotel did not have any more Friday night reservations available at this time. In addition, she advised that the conference room reserves was only 1300 sq. ft. and would only accomodate 35 people at a time and that she had voiced concern previously with Charlie. Bernadette indicated that she might be able to give us 10 rooms at the $199 fee for Saturday, but non for Friday and at best 5 more rooms on Saturday for $257. It became obvious at that point that they would not be able to accomodate us. I asked her to cancel the event and she did at no charge.

I will be cancelling my reservation. I think the only other one made was by Sue.

So........How about we get a committee together between us and the other forums and see if we can plan another event for next spring or summer? I am really sorry guys and take full responsibility for this. Fred, I hope you still want to help.......



Lynn