The increase definately stops me from attending again in 2007 (2006 was my first cfunited).
If I do hike over to the US from Scotland, it will now definately 100% be for cf.Objective(). Andy On 16/11/06, Charlie Griefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/16/06, Sandra Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Don't alumnis (people who have already attended one) get a price break? > > They do, but $100 off of $200 more is still $200 more :) > > I agree with Dave in that I felt a little "sticker shock" when I saw > the price announced. Last year was my first CFUnited (and I had a > blast), but I paid my own way, and would likely not have been able to > at $200 more (to be frank, it was a tight squeeze for me to be able to > do it at last year's price...which isn't a reflection on the > price...but the piss poor condition of my personal finances <g>). > > However, I don't know the first thing about the cost of running the > conference. At $649, maybe Michael broke even, or even lost money. > If that's the case, then I understand the increase. As much as it > sucks for the attendees to have to pay more, you can't realistically > ask someone to invest the kind of time into putting together a > conference that's on the scale of CFUnited and not have it be worth > their while to do so. > > So if that's the case, it's understandable. > > If it's "hey, we are -the- premiere CF conference of the year and > people will pay whatever we ask in order to attend"...then that's > kinda sad :\ > > > -- > Charlie Griefer > > ================================================ > "...All the world shall be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, > and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch > you, digger, listener, runner, prince with a swift warning. > Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed." > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:260743 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
