Just got this email 
Very sad that the con won't be happening but i understand why it isn't
This week already started with bad news for Stargate fans all over the
world – The SciFi Channel has announced that Stargate: SG-1 will end
after it’s current, 10th season.
We deeply regret to give you even more bad news today:
Unfortunately, we have to cancel the Pegasus 2006 convention.
The whole FKM team has worked over 14 months preparing for this
convention, devoted hundreds of hours, managed even the smallest details
in order to make that convention an unforgettable experience for every
single attendee, an exciting, wonderful weekend filled with lots of
personal moments and memories.
Unfortunately, all this wasn’t enough to motivate a sufficient amount of
people to register for our show. There is probably a lot of reasons for
that, many of them beyond our control, but that’s not what we want to
discuss right now.
As a fact, we’ve had an internal deadline, allowing us to cancel the
venue and hotel rooms without paying penalties. We’ve reached this
deadline now, and the registration numbers up to today is just not
sufficient enough to run the show as planned, let alone to finance it.
On the contrary, the financial risk at this moment would be way too high
to cover, especially from a professional and economical point of view.
Therefore, the only workable solution for us is to cancel the convention
and refund all paid tickets and rooms of our attendees as quickly and
uncomplicated as possible. There are various reasons why we also can’t
go for alternatives (i.e. a smaller convention with just two actors or
something like that). You can find all details about the refund process
at the end of this email.
We know that many of you will probably be disappointed now – belive us,
we’re disappointed, as well. Even more than that. But the discussions
within our team as well as with our partners convince us that we’re
doing the only right and professional thing.
We’re already working on a little consolation for all registered
attendees, for all those fans who have supported us from the very
beginning and have given us their trust. A big “thank you” for your
support – the encouragement given by you as well as all the individual
emails have shown us, that our philosophy is leading to the right
direction – despite the fact that we can’t proceed with the convention
right now.
We know that there will be those who just want to run us down and bad
mouth us. “I told you this wouldn’t work!”. We won’t let those people
irritate us, because it’s not us, not the programming, not our partners,
our guests or other reasons why the convention has to be cancelled –
it’s just the lack of ticket sales. We feel it’s just fair, if we make a
clean cut now, handle everything in a professional way, minimize other
possible damage by announcing the cancellation this early (there have
been conventions in the past cancelled just a few days before they were
supposed to happen), and after that, have an optimistic look into the
future. Yes, we’ll suffer some damage, but we’ll have a clean conscience
at least.
FKM-Events won’t be gone – we just love all the events too much, and
there’s no real reason for us to Stopp doing them now. We’ll be glad if
we can welcome you as attendee at one of our future events – maybe at
one of our evening events, maybe also at another convention, with a
different concept.
For further questions, suggestions and other things, you can still reach
us directly in our forum or by email.
Until then, best wishes and regards,
The FKM-Events team
----------
Refund of tickets and hotel rooms already paid for:
First of all, EVERY ONE will get his money back. We have enough reserves
to cover initial costs that already had to be paid for the show, so
those costs won’t conflict with the refund. We find it very important to
achieve and maintain an open and personal contact to you – we’ve
experienced other conventions’ cancellations ourselves, cancellations
where the attendees either didn’t get their money back at all, or had to
get the help of lawyers and courts and wait months or years to get at
least some of their money back. This WON’T happen with us
Very sad that the con won't be happening but i understand why it isn'tThis week already started with bad news for Stargate fans all over the
world – The SciFi Channel has announced that Stargate: SG-1 will end
after it’s current, 10th season.
We deeply regret to give you even more bad news today:
Unfortunately, we have to cancel the Pegasus 2006 convention.
The whole FKM team has worked over 14 months preparing for this
convention, devoted hundreds of hours, managed even the smallest details
in order to make that convention an unforgettable experience for every
single attendee, an exciting, wonderful weekend filled with lots of
personal moments and memories.
Unfortunately, all this wasn’t enough to motivate a sufficient amount of
people to register for our show. There is probably a lot of reasons for
that, many of them beyond our control, but that’s not what we want to
discuss right now.
As a fact, we’ve had an internal deadline, allowing us to cancel the
venue and hotel rooms without paying penalties. We’ve reached this
deadline now, and the registration numbers up to today is just not
sufficient enough to run the show as planned, let alone to finance it.
On the contrary, the financial risk at this moment would be way too high
to cover, especially from a professional and economical point of view.
Therefore, the only workable solution for us is to cancel the convention
and refund all paid tickets and rooms of our attendees as quickly and
uncomplicated as possible. There are various reasons why we also can’t
go for alternatives (i.e. a smaller convention with just two actors or
something like that). You can find all details about the refund process
at the end of this email.
We know that many of you will probably be disappointed now – belive us,
we’re disappointed, as well. Even more than that. But the discussions
within our team as well as with our partners convince us that we’re
doing the only right and professional thing.
We’re already working on a little consolation for all registered
attendees, for all those fans who have supported us from the very
beginning and have given us their trust. A big “thank you” for your
support – the encouragement given by you as well as all the individual
emails have shown us, that our philosophy is leading to the right
direction – despite the fact that we can’t proceed with the convention
right now.
We know that there will be those who just want to run us down and bad
mouth us. “I told you this wouldn’t work!”. We won’t let those people
irritate us, because it’s not us, not the programming, not our partners,
our guests or other reasons why the convention has to be cancelled –
it’s just the lack of ticket sales. We feel it’s just fair, if we make a
clean cut now, handle everything in a professional way, minimize other
possible damage by announcing the cancellation this early (there have
been conventions in the past cancelled just a few days before they were
supposed to happen), and after that, have an optimistic look into the
future. Yes, we’ll suffer some damage, but we’ll have a clean conscience
at least.
FKM-Events won’t be gone – we just love all the events too much, and
there’s no real reason for us to Stopp doing them now. We’ll be glad if
we can welcome you as attendee at one of our future events – maybe at
one of our evening events, maybe also at another convention, with a
different concept.
For further questions, suggestions and other things, you can still reach
us directly in our forum or by email.
Until then, best wishes and regards,
The FKM-Events team
----------
Refund of tickets and hotel rooms already paid for:
First of all, EVERY ONE will get his money back. We have enough reserves
to cover initial costs that already had to be paid for the show, so
those costs won’t conflict with the refund. We find it very important to
achieve and maintain an open and personal contact to you – we’ve
experienced other conventions’ cancellations ourselves, cancellations
where the attendees either didn’t get their money back at all, or had to
get the help of lawyers and courts and wait months or years to get at
least some of their money back. This WON’T happen with us
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