Advice post

[familliaraver.livejournal.com]

Never thought I would post here! This is the most amazing epic debacle I've ever seen in my life, and I need some advice. Technically I got burned out of money I was supposed to be paid, but more importantly at this point an entire convention of people are being burned out of money. I would like to leave names out for now, I don't want to put people on blast but I can later depending on what happens.

Can someone open a paypal dispute on an intangible object they paid for past the dispute period, like 9 months ago? If it's a large group of people *100-200 people* that open up a dispute at the same time will it freeze their paypal or will it not matter because they bought tickets in some cases a very long time ago. The fear is them taking all the money and running and the goal is to stop it.

The deal is a convention that was supposed to be happening next weekend was cancelled. A week ago. How/why/who was at fault for the cancellation is up to interpretation. The fact is they didn't fill the room block the said they would. Eventually I will encourage everyone involved to post an A_B on these people for the sake of future dealers/artists/attendees.

Any advice I can take to these poor people who I'm pretty sure will have to fight tooth and nail to see any money back would be really appreciative.

Comments

[rtydmartel.livejournal.com]

Contact all the people who lost money and tell them that you're making a list to contact paypal about this and if they can help you by providing their info.

Make a nice list of names and contact info (their paypal email at least) and the money they each lost, yourself included.

Then, give paypal a phone call and inform them of what happened.

"There was this person who blah blah blah the convention/stuff we paid for was never provided blah blah blah there are [X number] persons besides myself who are missing roughly [X money] combined, I have a list if that would help, the person ran with the money, can we open a mass-dispute? What should we do blah blah blah."

Be ready to contact every person so that they also call/contact paypal if that's what is required to proceed.

[familliaraver.livejournal.com]

I think that is just what I will do. I have access to 100 percent of all pre-reg e-mail lists. I've been paid up +colateral to get paid back what they still owe so I'm not worried about me, I just want the attendees to get back what they deserve. They cancelled the convention like a week before it was supposed to happen.

[rtydmartel.livejournal.com]

Oh, good on you for doing this on behalf of all the other people instead of leaving them to fend for themselves, in that case!

Good luck with this.

[familliaraver.livejournal.com]

I was involved in registration so I feel a little responsible to pass along information that could help them get their money back. I can't just sit back and watch them get screwed over. Thanks for the advice!