I am going to remain silent on this one. I spent a lot of my personal time and effort on this and I am not sure I can be as objective as I should be. As Scott will attest from the calls I made to him during the post convention remediations with the hotel, this became personal for me. I was extremely upset at the hotel and I needed to get remedy for my own peace of mind. I am not certain I have ever used the tone of voice in a proffessional situation that I used with Maria at the hotel. I was actually on the verge of loosing my cool, a big no no in any negotiations (See old reruns of I love Lucy);-). I even contemplated with Scott letting him takeover the process. As you guys know the master account was on my personal credit card and I was willing to litigate this if I had to if they did not cooperate. Anyways to make a long story short, or shorter, I want to just let you know why I am not jumping in with an opinion. As long as you guys can come to a concensus on what is the "right thing to do" I am in favor of it. Whatever you decide just keep in mind that it was not only the convention go'ers who were damaged by the hotel, but also the AGA which suffered damage to our reputation. However you discern between the two is up to greater minds than mine....like you guys :-). Regards, Larry --- "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com> wrote: > Here we have a very distinct amount, a precise value > because Larry negotiated with the hotel to arrive at > a distinct figure -- that's the essence liquidated > damages, a specific amount of money (the liquidity) > agreed to as full rememdy for damage that cannot be > easily valuated or remedied by specific performance. > > It's reasonably clear who was harmed. So, it's a > matter of moving the value of the remedy to those > harmed, which I guess is where we're at. > > > sh> _______________________________________________ > AGA-sc mailing list > AGA-sc@thekrib.com > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-sc > _______________________________________________ AGA-sc mailing list AGA-sc@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-sc