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<blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 3491838" data-attributes="member: 22622"><p>Ok, I've reached my boiling point with the ineptness of Gencon. Every year its always something. It's like watching I love Lucy, you know something's going to screw up you're just waiting for it. The Gencon registration follies began for me with being one of the 200 and rolling from there. </p><p></p><p>I've done the email and pitching of ideas over the years, but they just fall on death ears. Two threads have been shut down after people started venting their frustrations. So, I turn to the reliable free speech Enworld to post my rant. The last bit came when Gencon gave some non-committal foo foo date for event registration. </p><p></p><p>So, I'm sitting here, and in my five years pondering over the number of follies that I've experienced with Gencon in our brief six year relationship. Sure, the event being late is a minor thing, but its a small thing in a list of follies Gencon seems to make every year. In no particular order are the things I can expect from genco nevery year.</p><p></p><p>1. Event day server crashes. Five years and their tech is really crappy.</p><p></p><p>2. NO definite date to anything until the date is really close. Being a day off isn't bad I guess when I consider that three years ago they delayed it by weeks. Five years ago, the event catalog came out shortly after new year, not a week before registration. </p><p></p><p>My favorite folly though and what set me off at the beginning of the year was the 200 snafu that was handled poorly from a customer service and public relations point of view. I have no intention of this thread being another pointless thread of useful and insightful advice that Gencon will ignore yet again. I want to know what others think Gencon's foleys are?? .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DonTadow, post: 3491838, member: 22622"] Ok, I've reached my boiling point with the ineptness of Gencon. Every year its always something. It's like watching I love Lucy, you know something's going to screw up you're just waiting for it. The Gencon registration follies began for me with being one of the 200 and rolling from there. I've done the email and pitching of ideas over the years, but they just fall on death ears. Two threads have been shut down after people started venting their frustrations. So, I turn to the reliable free speech Enworld to post my rant. The last bit came when Gencon gave some non-committal foo foo date for event registration. So, I'm sitting here, and in my five years pondering over the number of follies that I've experienced with Gencon in our brief six year relationship. Sure, the event being late is a minor thing, but its a small thing in a list of follies Gencon seems to make every year. In no particular order are the things I can expect from genco nevery year. 1. Event day server crashes. Five years and their tech is really crappy. 2. NO definite date to anything until the date is really close. Being a day off isn't bad I guess when I consider that three years ago they delayed it by weeks. Five years ago, the event catalog came out shortly after new year, not a week before registration. My favorite folly though and what set me off at the beginning of the year was the 200 snafu that was handled poorly from a customer service and public relations point of view. I have no intention of this thread being another pointless thread of useful and insightful advice that Gencon will ignore yet again. I want to know what others think Gencon's foleys are?? . [/QUOTE]
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