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Don wrote:
I'm really hard pressed to see where someone spending $150/n saves the
conference $8k...

Again.. for the sake of example: Hotel requires 100 rooms occupied. When they only get 99 rooms occupied, they charge an attrition fee to the conference. In my example, it was an $8k charge. By getting one more person (and bringing the count up to 100) they avoid that $8k fee.

That's just the way the hotels work. I don't know why -- it seems illogical to me. But if they fail to make their minimum number of rooms, they get charged ridiculous fees.

Dan Kimmel posted a more accurate fee, based on COMMON's actual experience. He said COMMON would've been charged $160k this time around, if it weren't for some skilled negotiations by COMMON's staff.



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