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On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 04:53:14PM -0500, James Rishaw wrote: > Jared Mauch wrote: > > The one thing you're probally forgetting is hotel costs. > > > > Rent enough space in a hotel to fit 500 people in. > > Not that expensive.. especially when you tell them most of these 500 people > will be renting rooms there. > > > You can't bring outside food into there, you need to use > > the hotel food. (Or you can, but not in large quantities), unless > > you're going to bus everyone somewhere else. > > You can. Just gotta negotiate :) > > > I'd be interested in seeing the numbers also, but not in a > > "where the hell are you spending my money" sort of fashion. these > > things have costs, how many hotel people were there to be our slaves? > > quite a few. > > OK, 15 slaves @ $10/hr * 16 hours (2x8) = $2400, or $4.80 per attendee. > > 50 slaves @ $10/hr * 16 hours = $16.00 per attendee. That's one personal > assistant for every 10 people. :) I agree with Jamie. Having negotiated fairly significant conventions before (low-thousands of people) with hotels, and having done several seminars and such at the same kind of venues, this isn't that difficult to do. $250/person (not including accomodations) is outrageous unless there's money being siphoned off or silly things are being done. -- -- Karl Denninger ([email protected])| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost
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