From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: dragoncon
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:14:47 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 10:36 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: dragoncon

> At 09:45 AM 7/20/05 -0400, Michael Walsh wrote:
> >> dalek_cag at yahoo.com 7/19/2005 5:15:10 PM >>>
> >>I'm not going to be able to go to Dragoncon so I'm
> >>selling my membership.  I paid $50 and the convention
> >>charges a $20 transfer fee,
> >
> >Tranfer fee?  How droll.
>
> Sounds like a good reason to always register in a gender-neutral form
(Pat,
> Chris, Gonjelor, etc.) and have a computer and laminator so you can make
up
> some decent-looking fake ID for anyone you sell it to.  I doubt the con
> registration people are going to do a full background check with
> fingerprinting to verify it.
>
> >What next, a Personal Badge License fee?
>
> Probably.  Or royalties on the design.

What I don't understand is why people pay Big Bucks to go to for-profit
cons like Dragoncon.

--Ted White