This hits the nail on the head, something was really bugging me about giving the money to the participants and it is consider the "damage" to the AGA too. So I am still on the hmmm, do we need to do anything or the most do cheryls 6 mo of TAGS, or another option is to send out an email to convention goes and see if any are interested in DVD"S, at a special discount.... sorry...more options. K On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Larry Lampert wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ AGA-sc mailing list AGA-sc@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-sc