Quite agree w/ GoldCircle above, but didn't want to do the full quote thing.

BTW - I probably wouldn't have mentioned the 2 examples in detail a few posts above (alluded to them in an earlier post w/o details, as part of the bad part of the good & the bad), but the previous posts by others re: 'outing' the folk who short-change or stiffed the group and/or organizer got me thinking about the various circumstances in general & what do you do for future ones. I know what I'll do in future in situations like that, but for everyone else...

Do you:

a) out them (hadn't occurred to me before & probably not something I'd do publicly), or
b) do you say pay up before they can attend another (and does FT policy even allow that, or would it given the circumstances), or
c) do you set up a prepay rule?

For me I've enjoyed all the Dos I've attended and/or organized, good & even those w/ hiccups, and when somewhat unfortunate things like stiffing or inadvertent stiffing come up I just use them as an opportunity to learn to make the future ones better.

And sometimes you just have to learn how to shrug it off anyway.

Had a group of 36 in LON one time, and (learning from the previous year when everyone passed the bill from one to the other & we came up 100GBP short, which I covered) made arrangements w/ the restaurant & the FTers to do the bills for groups of 4, figuring a foursome could easily sort out a bill - and even got the restaurant to agree to do individual cc's!

Skye1, alanw, & fredmartens & I were the 4-some at the end of the table, & we ended up ordering an extra bottle of wine to drink whilst the various other 4-somes sorted out their bills, as it was taking a while (we sorted out ours in about 30 seconds - it was called divide by 4 LOL). I wandered down the long table to see how things were going & found one 4-some arguing over who had the veggies/should pay for them!!!!

At that point you just have to say, ya' know I set it up as best I could, good luck, and go back & finish your drink

Cheers.