Okay all,
As you are aware I have been responsible for the collecting of moneys for this venture and it is with great pride in this community that I can attest that we actually collected too much money.
I blame this squarely on STeely who made the plane ticket a lot cheaper than I budgeted for and the rest of you for being absurdly generous.
We do have other costs that are going to be incurred, particularly with the party being hosted by Aeneas as well as incidental costs of attending games such as fuel, parking, food, etc, which some CPers have offered to help with and we could help cover odd out-of-pocket costs.
However, this is Calgary during a recession and I want to offer anyone who wants a full or partial refund the opportunity to discreetly and confidentially request that of me via PM or email that they already have or can PM me to get.
Look, we all know the score here, you all as a community were immensely generous and I also understand that some are going through hard times, we really dont want to take money that cant be afforded so there is absolutely no judgement or anything if you need some or all of it back.
The plane ticket has been purchased and most of the other funds are earmarked for other anticipated costs, but there is some money that can be returned.
Now if everyone wants their money back I obviously cant do that, and Aeneas and I have decided that we cant spend all of the excess on a trip to Vegas unless STeely has more points to burn...No? Thats a shame.
In seriousness though, we have discussed this and Aeneas, myself, FurnaceFace and everyone else involved in this have no intention of personal gain or being frivolous with the funds and determined that if there is excess after Petr's trip we would donate it to charity (probably Flames Foundation, but nothing is set in stone), we just want to keep the out-of-pocket costs of volunteers to a minimum as best we can.
So, theres that. If you want some or all of your contribution back you can contact me, it will be 100% confidential. Furthermore, I have been contacted by about 3 more people who are willing to contribute, you still can, I'm not turning money away because I understand that we all want to help calgaryboy as best we can and I just want everyone to be able to have all of the relevant information so they can consider their contributions accordingly.
If this is unacceptable to you or this is not how you wanted your contribution to be spent or you have a better idea, please let me know.