Re: Early bird special for COMMON - COMMON Housing

["Steve McKay" <Steve.McKay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark wrote:

"I can understand that Common feels that they are not getting the full
bang for the buck for the last day so it was eliminated.  But when that
results in conference fees rising instead of falling, then I can understand
people being upset!"

Rob wrote:

"I would be surprised to discover that cutting the last day is why
conference fees have risen.  More likely is that without cutting the last
day they would have had to raise their fees even higher."

Gentlemen -

The conference was reduced from 5 days to 4 several conferences ago (4
conferences ago, I think, but I could be wrong).  The current price
increase and the reduction from 5 days to 4 are totally unrelated.

I'm not very high on the COMMON totem pole, but I would venture a guess
that the current price increase is more a function of increases in
conference center rental rates than anything else.

Thanks for your interest,

Steve