BotCon Registration NOW ONLINE

Why am I being charged the non-member rate...?

Narc wrote:Non-attending packages not available.

They will be available to order in a week.

I am so pissed! The email letting everyone know that Botcon registration was open was sent to me at 1:54pm, but apparently there was an open link to the registration way before that. Possibly as early as 12:30pm and certain people were tipped off to this fact! So I registerd around 2pm and was still number 1033 and I was only able to get the Wednesday class, but I can't take the Wednesday class ( I arrive around 5pm on Wednesday!)! So now I'm totally screwed! I either need to change my flight and come a day earlier to Florida, and stay up all night because I don't have a place to stay until Wednesday evening or cancel taking the Wednesday class.

What happened to members getting first dibs like they said before! Our membership and passwords should have given us access to a members only registration ahead of everyone! This sucks!

Anyone who has a Thursday class want to trade with me? Please message me here and let me know! Thanks!

Squueeeeeee!! I just got into my car, leaving work, when I get a txt that reg is up. Did a lil turn around and went right into work. I got in the Thursday custom class. My first custom evah!! So excited. I feel so relieved now.

Innvoice 1027!!

Fab, couldn't get to internet until home, no classes left 45 minutes later.

Anger at Botcon already.

Oops, lol. I just sent a text to CP about registration, but now I see he already has.

All I have to say regarding the registration is, IT'S ABOUT FRICKIN' TIME.

Also, for those concerned about duplicate confirmation numbers, Pete@Botcon just posted this at TFW:

Pete@Botcon wrote:The numbers you have received do not have any effect on your order being processed. They are only for use for the system. However, they are sequential. So, anyone with the number 1038 or below are in the first 100.

Fender Bender wrote:Also, for those concerned about duplicate confirmation numbers, Pete@Botcon just posted this at TFW:

Pete@Botcon wrote:The numbers you have received do not have any effect on your order being processed. They are only for use for the system. However, they are sequential. So, anyone with the number 1038 or below are in the first 100.

That's super cool that it was posted on one website.

You know...

instead of in an email to all the club members.

What.

Ever.

Pete@BotCon wrote:

Counterpunch wrote:

Fender Bender wrote:Also, for those concerned about duplicate confirmation numbers, Pete@Botcon just posted this at TFW:

Pete@Botcon wrote:The numbers you have received do not have any effect on your order being processed. They are only for use for the system. However, they are sequential. So, anyone with the number 1038 or below are in the first 100.

That's super cool that it was posted on one website.

You know...

instead of in an email to all the club members.

What.

Ever.

And Allspark and the Club Boards and I was just about to post it here but Fender beat me to it

Thanks for the update, Pete.

Just had a further thought on this... If a system is generating identical invoice numbers for its own internal use, won't this cause problems later if anyone has queries and needs to get in touch and quote these numbers back to BotCon?

When anyone registers for Auto Assembly, I can trace an attendee by their online transaction reference and the ticket number that is allocated to them as soon as they book and their confirmation email telling them of their ticket numbers will be their secondary record of the transation as well as their payment receipt. That gives international attendees added peace of mind that their bookings are safe and not having to worry incase passes don't arrive in time... and we even have contingency plans in place for those eventualities or for late bookings.

Either way though, our system is basic, limited in terms of the technology behind it, but it's worked very well for the last 5 years we have been offering online bookings and so far we have never double-booked any tickets or had confusion over ticket numbers.

I would hope that BotCon has another quick way of identifying bookings from other methods from the online system in the event of queries or the system could cause them a few headaches

Simon