I'm slowly honing the beast. There is nothing is my copy of the hotel contract about the hotel comping rooms based on sales of roomnights. In the Budget we had anticipated 2 roomnight comped. But I don't know what the formula is. Is the hotel going to comp any rooms? Can someone get me the total cost each (tax, etc) for the plane tickets that have been reserved or purchased? I'm guessing those original estimates of $850 each could be a bit off. I thought part of this was posted a week or so ago but for the life of me I can't find it in the archives. Also, we originally figured the auction sales figure as a number net of payments to sellers. However, time itself is likely to limit the number of transactions, the size of the crowd and the demand. So I have put into the Estimate and line item for Payments to Auction Sellers and restimated the Gross auction sales at about $6,500, slightly higher than the all day auctions last year. I think this is a more reasonable expectation, even if I'm second guessing my own original thinking. Anyway, this is subjective, comments anyone? thanks all, sh ===== Still some time to get the $59 registration rate -- it must increase as of October 28th to $79. Still some nights available at the 65% discount hotel rate. The Annual AGA Convention, 2004, November 12-14. aquatic-gardeners.org & gwapa.org _______________________________________________ AGA-mcm mailing list AGA-mcm@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm