did I miss a memo?

[lagilman]

So, it being December, I am making my plans for 2010 conventions (Pcon in Dublin, daytripping Lunacon, Balticon, pending DragonCon, all others uncertain at this point*) and I come to a sticking point.

WFC apparently is refusing to do any on-line registration. You have to download a pdf form, fill it out, write them a check/credit card #, and send it via USPS.

Guys, I know WFC marches to the beat of its own bagpipe, but WTF? It's 2010. Most of us do things on-line whenever possible -- yes, really. We enter in the credit card and we hit "send" and we don't print out fiddly bits of paper and mail them and then wait to hear if it's been received or not.

Or am I missing some great backlash against on-line commerce?


There are also no hotel rates listed. Hopefully that will be remedied in the next few months, so I can deal with Budget Issues...




*I'm not doing Readercon because I'll be teaching @ Odyssey the week prior and fully expect to be exhausted. WorldCon is yet to be decided -- have to see a) how the finances work, and b) if I can really afford to take the time off, when I'll then have to turn around and head to France for two weeks the next month. The cats would kill me. Although I am willing to hear arguments....

Comments

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Well, being in one of the flyover states (OK), I too was vexed by the lack of on-line registration, lack of Paypal, and the fact that the price-change mailing deadline fell on a Sunday....a day on which noone could get a post mark. When I e-mailed the con to ask about the deadline/postmark situation, I never got a response.

I mailed in my form six weeks ago, and haven't yet gotten any form of response.