Darkblu3

I would love one that's in the middle of the country(ish) and near to Leeds...but that might be influenced by me living in Leeds

I would love any scrubs guests and was gutted at not being able to see Robert maschio when I couldn't get to cm:g

Hey Spymaster, Just wanted to say that I had the same issue when I signed up so just set an auto-forwarder on an old hotmail account and that worked.

I've been watching this from the start and of last nights episode...all I can say is wow. It felt like the pace and content that others shows should have been moving at but didn't. It's also nice for successful British SF to be on our screens :) Overall I've really enjoyed it, and also liked how they showed at the beginning of ep5 how far and fast things had moved. I think had they had an 8 episode commisioning they could have fleshed out the transition a bit more but they were successful with what they did do. Bring on Series 2

Awesome guest. Wish I was able to make it now

Cool, Thanks for your help. I just wanted to doublecheck about it :)

Just wondering as I've seen a few threads saying that John Barrowman will only be there on the Sunday. Can we take that to mean that he won't be at the drinks reception for Gold Attendees on the Friday? Many Thanks, Darkblu3

Not sure I understand the running question? As for the hotel confirmation (i.e. Andrew telling you the hotel details etc) that is still being worked on but will be out soon. I meant the bit where it asked if we were available to walk/cycle for photoshoots in terms of running as it was on the same email as the hotel details. Thanks for your answer, I guess both will come through at once :) Cheers,

I replied back to Andrew regarding hotel well before the deadline but haven't heard anything about room/if I'll be running yet. Has anyone else had the details through yet or do I just need to wait until nearer the event? Cheers

Can we apply for more than one position if we think we're suited to a couple of areas? Many Thanks,

thanks for letting me know :)

Hey, Just wondering if anyone could help me. I realised after looking at this thread that i'd responded to the lfcc email thinking it was on a monday too. I have sent a new email through correcting my responses with UPDATED in the subject field, should this be ok or do I need to do anything else? Many Thanks

In terms of the cashflow, personally I think it could be the opposite of that, rather than it being a hit to the cashflow it would mean that it was more equally spread throughout the year and may give showmasters a stronger ability to forecast how much funds they'd be able to spend on guests etc. In terms of the extra payment to process, I don't know how this works for showmasters but from what I've seen at customer side is it not mostly automated for the convention tickets? Ticket Allocation - I'd see no reason why the deposits or those who pay in full should have any preference over each other. Both would have clearly stated an intention to buy a full ticket by either paying in full or paying the non-refundable deposit. I'd say for these just to be allocated in the order they came in. Reminders - This is something which could require some work from the shop or on the shop as I'm not sure how powerful it is, but if possible I would suggest that (as an example) a report was generated of those who've paid for the ticket deposit and then they're emailed 3 weeks before the deadline with a link to pay the reminder. At 2 days before the deadline these people are sent a final reminder with a caveat on the bottom saying "thanks if you've already paid, please ignore this if you have" or similar. Then if they miss the payment deadline the tickets are re-added to the pool of those on sale for the remaining x amount of time until the event and those that haven't paid lose their deposit. I think if the shop is primarily done manually at the moment then processes would need to be generated and put into place to log certain details of the orders as they come in, but to me the only additional workload would be the reminder email and potentially an increase in payments to process. I just wanted to say as well that I don't think it would be right to penalise people for booking this way to the extent which you're sayiong as £5/£10 seems a lot for processing. I think if they did need to go down this route then the max charge that people wouldn't potentially balk at would be in the region of £3-£4. Just wanted to answer some of your points.

Are these going to be on sale for more events aswell or just for this and chevron for now? Cheers

I know some of the hotels currently offer a scheme like this for when people are booking their rooms. I wondered if Showmasters would offer something similar with conventions being announced nearly a year before they happen. The way I'd see it would be asking for a non-returnable deposit at half of the ticket cost or even a quarter and then people having to pay the full balance 4 months in advance to give chance for the tickets to be resold if people aren't able to pay the full balance. This would also hopefully give a better forecast of attendees for showmasters. Just wondered what people and showmasters though of such a scheme? EDIT: The way I could see this working would be through the online store, and I think it would only work for the full conventions, not the events like collectormania/Autographica. Depending on if the store supports having codes or items can be listed for sale without being shown. So come the 4 month time, an email could be sent with a link to the store item for the remaining amount, but this store item wouldn't be visable without that link. Hope that makes sense. Darkblu3

I would love any event which meant being human guests would be at a convention personally. I think that it could be good with Life on Mars as I love both shows, however aren't sure in the scheme of things how they'd compliment each other at a convention.

I would love a villains theme. Only 3 months to go now :)

I think it's good. Be interesting to see if they do put it on the DVD's would they put the blog posts on aswell in like an interactive style. Given that the blog posts are very much linked to it. I think the reason they didn't put the pilot on the DVD's was because when the series started it was meant to be a fresh start of it again with no reference to the stuff in the pilot. There's a quote somewhere from I think it was the BBC3 controller saying that the pilot was shelved never to be broadcast again. Personally after seeing the pilot and rewatching series 1 I think there's still some things referred to in the series which would only be clear if you've seen the pilot, ir are potentially more creepy if you haven't. An example is when Annie tells Owen what happens when you die and Mitchell tells her not to tell George, in the pilot something similar happens with George asking Annie what happens after death and she makes it up. Then it goes to a scene of Annie and Mitchell talking about after death being "the long corridor with the men with ropes and sticks" or something to that effect.

1. Yes (depending on when it was obviously) 2. I would buy a gold ticket.

Just wanted to say that I totally agree with this comment. I think a lot of people would have been put off (myself included) by the fact it was running against another event which no amount of advertising could really compete with given who was running that event. Hopefully if there was one set up for later in the year then a lot more people would be able and would want to attend. As I said before I think that there is a large want for a being human convention, but timing last year was bad. This isn't meant to be a dig at anyone or anything, just giving my opinion.

As you've said you have contact with the people from Being Human and it seems to keep on going from strength to strength is there a possibility of the housebroken event being attempting to be run again? I know I personally would love the opportunity to meet them at a convention.