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But, if they keep gouging more and more for the room rates. And no matter how much we beat this point to death people still look for cheaper rooms. And COMMON has been paying a penalty for a few conferences now because people are looking elsewhere anyway. Maybe it is time to stop playing this game and just paying for the conference rooms. But then again, it might be impractical, since COMMON seems to charge the same as everyone else for a conference now, (unlike years ago). That if we shifted expenses from the room charge to conference fees, people might have a hard time swallowing that. I think there was some gnashing of teeth when they shifted expenses from the membership fee to conference fees. Rob Berendt -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin Douglas Handy <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 04/29/2003 02:23 PM Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc: Fax to: Subject: Re: Congrads John Earl! Mark, > Although I haven't checked very recently, I think that you can get rooms >or suites for 100-150 / night w/o too much difficulty. So staying at >Common hotels and paying rack rates means that the member is volunteering >to subsidize Common's coffers "over and above the call of duty." That's >probably unacceptable for independents. Finding cheaper room rates is not necessarily the answer in the big picture. Without enough people staying at the hosting convention facilities, COMMON would not get "free" use of the meeting rooms. Convention meeting rooms can get VERY expensive when rented without accomodations too, and so then I suspect the cost of the conference itself would have to be raised substantially so that you could choose your own lodging. If attendance is high enough the conference gets the miniumum number of guest rooms filled to avoid surcharges, than when others stay elsewhere it does not impact the overall cost. But they would have to be the exception rather than rule to avoid being charged for the use of the meeting rooms too. As I understand how that industry works... Doug _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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