I think a co-pay would be be reasonable. If I human manually did a refund I'm sure the process could ne 'fixed'. It would be interesting to know how many people, based on paste events this would impact. I agree in that I as well suspect its a very low number.
-jim On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Jared Mauch <ja...@puck.nether.net> wrote: > Two comments here: > > In the past a human would review and refund speakers if they paid. > > A nominal co-pay may be appropriate, even if it's just $10. Students qualify > for lower rates last I recall as well. We are talking about a small number of > people here, at most 1-2 per conference I suspect based on historical chats. > > Jared Mauch > > On Sep 2, 2011, at 11:27 AM, jim deleskie <deles...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If a >> members company is willing to pay anyway, then people always have the >> option of not accepting the free entrance. As for people 'hardship' >> cases, how ever you want to define it, there is no revenue loss here >> as they would be unlikely so spend $ to attend anyway if they had to >> pay. >