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pdc quandry

I entered the "blog to the pdc" competition last night but now I'm wondering about the gamble this involves. If I don't buy a ticket now, I risk the conference selling out. But then I'm potentially out an additional 2k for travel and hotel expenses in addition to the $1500 for the conference if I lose the competition.

I guess if I don't win and I don't want to bite off the travel and lodging expenses, I can sell the ticket on eBay. So that begs the question - is the conference attendance ticket refundable or transferrable?

Published Jun 30 2005, 08:42 AM by shebert

Filed under: Development

Comments

daughtkom said:

FWIW, TechEd registrations were transferrable.

# June 30, 2005 7:30 AM

Bil Simser said:

I had the same issue but in one of the posts on the forums the Channel 9 guys said they would reimburse you if you won so go ahead and buy it now.

# June 30, 2005 7:52 AM

shebert said:

That's good to know. Thank you!

# June 30, 2005 8:35 AM

pvanooijen said:

I feel your doubt. I'm just going to take the gamble: either I win or I'm not going.. Statistically speaking it will be the latter but I just cannot afford it having to pay all for myself.

For the moment I'm an endless optimist: I'll be there :)

# June 30, 2005 1:52 PM

shebert said:

Good luck on winning - I think having someone like yourself coming from Europe would make for some great blogging material.

I know what you mean - the expense is pretty high when we're paying for it ourselves. Good luck and I hope to meet you there.

# June 30, 2005 2:50 PM