Clearly, any communication from the promoter to Shooters Supply that there is a lack of space for them is laughable.
Imagine the hilarity if Shooters Supply had pretended they didn't get the refund letter, and showed up with a carload of merchandise.
(Loading up trucks'n'trailers is a whole lot of effort to yank chain, but...)
The promoter could have told the sleaze vendors that
the rejection letter and refund check got lost in the mail,
and they are "legally required" to allow SS to set up...but if Overprice.Com
wants to pack up and leave, that's on them - no refunds.
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It's been a few years since we've gone. (We've only ever done Wilmington
and Marlboro).
I've got all the 2018/2019 dates already entered in my personal calendar,
and I'm not deleting them as they go by, because it's far easier to slide the
2018 dates into 2020 once the next generation of the calendar is published.
Except that I'm convinced the whole business will collapse by then.
Hell, the promoter would have to put deposits on facilities to reserve them,
and at this rate they won't be able to justify them.
What could save the shows? Some radical regression in the legal landscape,
opening up more kinds of sales. Or another Obama-class buyers panic.
And even if one or the other happens some day,
it ain't happening before the Shriners want their reservation deposit.
Hell, going by the trip reports in this thread,
a
vendor would be crazy to place
their deposit,
lest that seed corn get eaten up running intervening shows.
I wonder if any vendors are attending only because they paid in advance?