Great points. Don’t hold your breath for another installment. They’ll come up with a B.S. reason, but it’s sounding like it won’t be back. The festival isn’t entirely on speaking terms with MGM, and the implications for the festival’s vendors is in question.

Sorry to hear about your experience. It was clusterful in many ways people saw, but in many ways people haven’t yet. Local media is helping gloss over what really happened, but more details should come to light soon.

I’m a loyal MGM patron through Mlife but damned if I didn’t lose some respect for them with this. I’m willing to allow them some 1st year growing pains, but they better get this thing properly sussed out before next year for a LOT of people (myself included) to consider attending.

Interesting, thanks.

Well, they say up front that it’ll cost $3.50 to get a refund. However, that’s your money, so there’s a definitely WTF going on.

What? Hadn’t heard about that charge at all. What are the conditions of that, do you know?

Yeah, we’d recommend eating and drinking beforehand, but if one stays for any length of time, they’re bound to want or need something.

Thanks, Steven. Didn’t mean to imply those remaining balances were involuntarily surrendered. I meant that if someone has a balance of $3.50 or less, they’d let it go because the fee is more than what they’d get back.

Well, it’s sort of less a screwing than a hidden surcharge. Adds up, though.