Queen_Sindel Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 (edited) Well, I have not read every single post but will do soon - it will take some time but I do want to say something, as we keep being accused of not letting people say what they want to on here. Well, what is this thread about then ? Freedom of speech seems to be here but what good it is doing I do not know as all it is doing is damaging any possibility of running this event. As to Dirk’s post I do think he is a friend but is desperate to distance himself from this event because of fear of damaging his new events. If so, that is up to him. As to working together, we both had jobs to do to make another show work. For various reasons, it started to go bad. If he was so concerned about the event months ago why leave it to 3 days ago to pull out? He kept in because he thought it would work if we got a big guest, but as it started to look bad and it was getting hard to get guests for the show he pulled out before the event was dead to save his reputation Sorry Dirk, I cannot see it any way other than this mate. And as soon as you did that Marc Lee put up on his site about how bad we are at running events to put the knife in the wound. Marc Lee was unhappy that we were working together as I think he felt threatened by my involvement with Dirk. Well this freedom of speech has not helped the event nor us or the fans but it is here like it or not. Now down to the event. We have had an answer from the agents and it is a NO so we have not had any luck with getting a big guest for this show. And as it is now looking like people are trying to save their skin I think it is time to give in to the fact that it is not going to happen. RING CON has been cancelled. I managed to talk to the hotel today and there is no problem with anyone that has booked into the hotel cancelling their rooms. They will not be charged – the hotel has said that includes those who booked discounted, non-refundable rooms. Next tickets will be refunded to all of you who did book. We are sorry for trying to bring you all an amazing event that was just not meant to be. I hope you can understand what we were trying to do and know we only tried for the right reasons, and as we are the only left out of the original partnership it is up to us to say sorry, and that we did really try to pull this off. You only have our word on this but think about it: we wanted to run this event as much as you wanted it to happen. We hope that some day there will be a LOTR convention again in the country. It will not be us as we have tried at great lengths to make this happen and I do not want to go through all this again. It has aged me. We are the organisers of the event and we failed to bring it to you. There are many reasons for it but I do think that no one person or action was to blame, it was just circumstances I do not want there to be any animosity towards anyone for the failure of this event. It’s not another show Germany’s fault, nor the fans as they have really tried to save this event, especially in the last few days. One last thing, just to try to stop people taking sides. You do not have to. Things sometimes do not work but I must say below is the original plan for another show written up by Dirk back in April. We were partners on this and now you can see what parts we were supposed to play Business Meeting another show / Showmasters another show UK, April 13-15, 2007 Responsibilities: Jason / Showmasters Bank Account Registration Security Dealers Volunteers Guests Dirk / another show GmbH Dealers Main Staff Entertainment Merchandise Decoration Guests Webpage I will order the tickets to be refunded on Monday. Give a couple of days, and if you have any probloms with anything do contact us on the email address info@showmastersonline.com One last thing We hope that one day LOTRs fandom manages to run an event in the UK and we wish them all the luck helping keep LOTRs alive for years to come. We will now turn our attentions to getting LOTR guests for our other events in the future and hope to talk some of the elusive a list guests into attending an event where the fans can meet them Thank you for reading this Yours very sincerely Jason If you want to post about the cancellation, please do so here: http://showmastersonline.com/forums/index....4748&st=400 Edited September 22, 2007 by Queen_Sindel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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