<story><title>Wherein Twestival screw us over with their egregious unprofessionalism.</title><url>http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2009/08/28.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrismear</author><text>Not that I&apos;m condoning the behaviour of the Twestival organisers, but I find it hard to sympathise with the venue, given that they continued reserving the date for &apos;months&apos; with no contract and no deposit paid. They took a risk on a clearly flakey client, and it didn&apos;t pay off.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nir</author><text>&quot;We sent a contract, and asked for a deposit. Months went by. A few times they asked when they could stop by to drop off the deposit, but never actually did so.&quot;&lt;p&gt;The venue&apos;s actions seem pretty reasonable to me. They gave the organizers some slack, assuming these are basically decent people. It&apos;s not like they&apos;re dealing with some unknown or shady operation.&lt;p&gt;Still, discovering a Twitter-related operation turned out to be much noise/little signal shouldn&apos;t be &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; surprising :)</text></comment>
<story><title>Wherein Twestival screw us over with their egregious unprofessionalism.</title><url>http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2009/08/28.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrismear</author><text>Not that I&apos;m condoning the behaviour of the Twestival organisers, but I find it hard to sympathise with the venue, given that they continued reserving the date for &apos;months&apos; with no contract and no deposit paid. They took a risk on a clearly flakey client, and it didn&apos;t pay off.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notaddicted</author><text>He does mention at the start that promoters are mostly like this, so it wasn&apos;t the red flag that it sounds like.</text></comment>