covid event fallout
I sympathize for a lot of events right now. If they close, a ton of income they need to pay off contracts poofs.
If they don't close, they lose a ton of income to people who can't/won't come anyway, and they look uncaring.
The events are also stuck between corps with contracts that won't let up on cancellation fees because they don't absolutely have to and customers who can just chargeback their registrations.
Apparently covid doesn't count as force majeure to a lot of people.
If they don't close, they lose a ton of income to people who can't/won't come anyway, and they look uncaring.
The events are also stuck between corps with contracts that won't let up on cancellation fees because they don't absolutely have to and customers who can just chargeback their registrations.
Apparently covid doesn't count as force majeure to a lot of people.
covid event fallout
@trysdyn I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, since there’s an event I’ve been iffy about going to that just got canceled today, and I’ve been wondering, since it’s a smaller convention, if they’d even be able to afford to cancel. :/
They’re promising refunds with the option to exchange it for a ticket for next year’s con instead, and I imagine now they’re just hoping that enough people go with that for them to stay afloat.
covid event fallout
But it's hard to get there. Not every event does. I'd say even only ones that have been around for YEARS do.
So yeah it's kind of scary. A lot of leisure/culture events are likely gonna disappear from this. Tech conferences will of course be fine :/