Botcon Online Registration Now Testing!

Novascream wrote:I just took the BOTCON online registration (beta) test & they have raised the prices! If you will take a look at the brochure it says that the customization class is $85 dollars, but on the online form they have raised it to $100! They have also added a $10 service fee for online registration! I have set aside money for Botcon for what I was told the price of my items would be, which according to the brochure was to be only $490.00. Now with all their add-ons it is $515.00! I can't actually register til I get more money now as I am sort on my credit card! This really pisses me off. They pick some far out-of-the-way place for the hotel, in one of the most expensive chains ever, deny us the ability to register and now they want to raise the prices at the last minute. Since they printed the price in the brochure, they legally cannot raise it at the last minute like this. So make sure you have printed out the brochure like I did, as it will actually stand up in court!

Seibertron wrote:

Novascream wrote:I just took the BOTCON online registration (beta) test & they have raised the prices! If you will take a look at the brochure it says that the customization class is $85 dollars, but on the online form they have raised it to $100! They have also added a $10 service fee for online registration! I have set aside money for Botcon for what I was told the price of my items would be, which according to the brochure was to be only $490.00. Now with all their add-ons it is $515.00! I can't actually register til I get more money now as I am sort on my credit card! This really pisses me off. They pick some far out-of-the-way place for the hotel, in one of the most expensive chains ever, deny us the ability to register and now they want to raise the prices at the last minute. Since they printed the price in the brochure, they legally cannot raise it at the last minute like this. So make sure you have printed out the brochure like I did, as it will actually stand up in court!

Seriously? Over $15 to $25? The BotCon folks have a right to raise a price if needed. I'm pretty sure that would stand up in court.

Seibertron wrote:The "countdown" timer should reset itself every time you hit submit, refresh the page, or do something on the site. The session should only time out after X amount of inactivity.

HighPrime wrote:

Seibertron wrote:The "countdown" timer should reset itself every time you hit submit, refresh the page, or do something on the site. The session should only time out after X amount of inactivity.

I think it's necessary, otherwise, you'd have jokers refreshing pages constantly holding up inventory. Even though I like this idea, it's not practical. What's to stop the same person from opening up 20 browsers and finalizing those orders in the same amount of time? I'm probably thinking to hard about this, though. It may simply be a mechanism to prevent system resource exhaustion, or it's just part of the test

Your timer has expired. Please start your registration again.

Seibertron wrote:

HighPrime wrote:

Seibertron wrote:The "countdown" timer should reset itself every time you hit submit, refresh the page, or do something on the site. The session should only time out after X amount of inactivity.

I think it's necessary, otherwise, you'd have jokers refreshing pages constantly holding up inventory. Even though I like this idea, it's not practical. What's to stop the same person from opening up 20 browsers and finalizing those orders in the same amount of time? I'm probably thinking to hard about this, though. It may simply be a mechanism to prevent system resource exhaustion, or it's just part of the test

Wow ... lost my whole order after sending them an email and posting this message. Timer ended right after I finished typing "4111111111111111" for my credit card, page automatically refreshed and gave me this error message:

Your timer has expired. Please start your registration again.

Black Bumblebee wrote:Sent an email about this to Botcon and got a reply:

My email:

Just thought I'd let you know that on the forums at Seibertron, a lot of people are saying that they are backing out of coming to your convention due to the lack of information / lack of registration. It's a front paged story right now. You might want to do some damage control... just saying...

Reply:

We have had full information.

Registration very soon I am in final testing while I am at the Joe Convention.

Brian

Please make note of my new email brian@funpubinc.com

So, according to the email, we already know all there is to know about Botcon this year--guests, exclusives, and all. (???)

Take from this what you will.

tigertracks 24 wrote:No problems minus the credit card thing.

That and what I signed up for cost me a grand...

Liftgate wrote:Btw, did registration on a 10 year old laptop with a 700mhz pentium III, so there's no real excuses for not being able to complete the form in the alloted time.

Seibertron wrote:

Liftgate wrote:Btw, did registration on a 10 year old laptop with a 700mhz pentium III, so there's no real excuses for not being able to complete the form in the alloted time.

There's plenty of reasons to not complete a form in 7 minutes. Got a baby? How about a parent trying to complete a form while dealing with an uncooperative child? What if you aren't sure of the choices and are reading the brochure while completing the form?

Of course you could make the argument that someone should try filling out a form until they're absolutely ready. I just feel that it isn't very customer friendly. I'd be more concerned about making it customer friendly for everyone else than trying to worry about how to accommodate 100 people for a customs class.

LiKwid wrote:

Seibertron wrote:

Liftgate wrote:Btw, did registration on a 10 year old laptop with a 700mhz pentium III, so there's no real excuses for not being able to complete the form in the alloted time.

There's plenty of reasons to not complete a form in 7 minutes. Got a baby? How about a parent trying to complete a form while dealing with an uncooperative child? What if you aren't sure of the choices and are reading the brochure while completing the form?

Of course you could make the argument that someone should try filling out a form until they're absolutely ready. I just feel that it isn't very customer friendly. I'd be more concerned about making it customer friendly for everyone else than trying to worry about how to accommodate 100 people for a customs class.

I thought the customizer class was only for 25 people on both days coming to a grand total of 50? Did I miss something?

honestly i felt it was very user freindly..I knew what I wanted before hand though..I can see how some unforseen difficulties could complicate things ( infants, kids, rabid squirrels) Only problem I had was the last screen before the cc registration..It didn't give a option to not take a tour or the customizer class..I registered like 15 times today and it always went smooth but that part left scratching my noggin...

Seibertron wrote:There's plenty of reasons to not complete a form in 7 minutes. Got a baby? How about a parent trying to complete a form while dealing with an uncooperative child? What if you aren't sure of the choices and are reading the brochure while completing the form?

Liftgate wrote:Has anyone else tried the registration again and got sent through what appears to be the REAL thing? I don't know what I did, havn't been able to do it again, but for a second there I thought registration was actually open. Add on sets are $210 I think, or it was $215. And the processioning fee is $6, not $10.

HighPrime wrote:

Liftgate wrote:Has anyone else tried the registration again and got sent through what appears to be the REAL thing? I don't know what I did, havn't been able to do it again, but for a second there I thought registration was actually open. Add on sets are $210 I think, or it was $215. And the processioning fee is $6, not $10.

That was there yesterday, also. There's an option for 'botcon' and member test in the first drop down. Pick the 'botcon' option and you'll get the same results you wrote about. Of course, both options are still placeholders until the official announcement, as we all know

Liftgate wrote:

HighPrime wrote:

Liftgate wrote:Has anyone else tried the registration again and got sent through what appears to be the REAL thing? I don't know what I did, havn't been able to do it again, but for a second there I thought registration was actually open. Add on sets are $210 I think, or it was $215. And the processioning fee is $6, not $10.

That was there yesterday, also. There's an option for 'botcon' and member test in the first drop down. Pick the 'botcon' option and you'll get the same results you wrote about. Of course, both options are still placeholders until the official announcement, as we all know

Really? :-\ Huh. I don't think it had the botcon drop down menu first time I went through it though. Yeah, pretty sure that wasn't there on my first visit.