Looking forward to seeing everyone in Chicago.

Finally sold out!

Scallping time! I know that those 20 entries that I bought will come in handy, start ebaying them, craigslist, bartering, muahh haha! Offers accepted! PM me!



just kidding!



I learned my lesson from the first CHI DO when I found out too late and missed out, so this time around bought it early!

Looking forward to meet new people and make new friends and learn new things.

Woo Hoo

Mr. Balima and I forgot we even entered the pool. Feels good on a hot day:cool:

Got one of the last 5! Excited to attend for a third year in a row!

Dang. I just tried to register on Friday and noticed that it had sold out...

Let me know if anyone has a ticket they wish to sell!

Me too! I tried booking a ticket and it said sold out. But, apparently more tickets magically became available again. And, also it seems that people who bought tickets and cannot use them are not able to resell them from what I understand. Does anyone have one I can buy?...and one that tipitai can buy:)

There are no transfers and no refunds, not even for reasons that, frankly, any conference with any humanity would permit.

Note that Eventbrite permits refunds and transfers if the conference organizers do, so this falls squarely on the organizers.

Policy's pretty much been the same since year 1 if I recall. Given this is a volunteer-organized event, they can pretty much set the rules whichever way they want. And they've always been up front about it - not like they surprised anyone at the last minute. :confused:

Cheers.

yes it does.

I'm not defending the organizers but pointing out that Flyertalk has a certain small % of folks (pieces of crap in my opinion) who would buy a ticket to this event, sign up for events, with the sole purpose of reselling the ticket for a profit/miles/points.

Perhaps if language re: switching of tickets was installed, such as
1) one transfer per FTer, not annual, but only a one time ever (so someone couldn't transfer on a yearly basis, they get one out and that's it)
2) transfer must be for face value, no increase
3) person taking on ticket must attend the same classes that the original person signed up for

etc etc.

I think the problem is that refunds/changes etc will require too much hands-on management from the organizers (2 guys, so the plural barely sneaks in!) who are already very busy. They can't avoid dealing with the hotel, catering, speakers, 500 attendees, etc., so avoiding extra work is understandable. Of course, we all think our case is unique and constitutes a very small request, but you can imagine if changes were permitted there will be dozens upon dozens of requests.

if rules were established upfront about exchanges, there wouldn't be a need for the organizers to be invovled with an exchange@:-)

Points Break Alert - Crowne Plaza, Northbrook, IL
 

The new, just announced, Priority Club Points Break includes the Crowne Plaza in Northbrook, IL, which is about a 10 minute drive from the Holiday Inn Elk Grove Village conference site. I just booked this Crowne Plaza for 5000 points per night for the two nights. Seeing as you can buy points (if you don't already have them) for .7¢ (seven tenths of a cent) that works out to $35 per night for a $100 per night room.

very cool, a pointbreaks rate that actually work for someone !!^;)

It might be nice if someone were unable to come, they could give back their ticket (no refund of fee) and the organizers could sell again = more money for charity.

Exactly how I'd do it, and I think Eventbrite already has support for that much.

If it were a direct "no other changes" transfer that's done through Eventbrite's mechanism, and then one said "no transfers within X days of event" (where X is probably 30, 45, or 60), that would be easier for all attendees.

This would also be good with the caveats above.

I'm not going, but it does pain me to know that there is one person out there who can't go because I bought my ticket early.

I'm likely not the only person; if there's 5-10% of us, then that's a significant amount of expense for catering that'll go unused, and money raised where there's no value to the time the speakers are putting in for those bodies who aren't there.