Zeta Crossfire wrote:From what's been said the fear of pre-pay is that if the promoter cancels there's a chance that players won't get there money back, but what if players pre pay not to the promoter, but to a trusted 3rd party AP member someone like matt or someone else? Still might have it's share of problems like the 3rd party guy running off with the money, but its an idea.
I've dabbled with the idea of building an advanced RSVP registration system and letting game promoters use it, but there's a lot of considerations to be made before I can open up something like that. I don't think the money has to be held by somebody else, it just needs to be secure and professional transaction.
The process has to be easy to understand and simple to do. No 3rd party sites to register for, no confusing shopping cart hoops to jump through. Some folks have done things like go through store's shopping carts, this annoys the hell out of me. It's a confusing process if you aren't already in their system.
Or even make an intermediate system for non-payment registration that still requires information given. Then you'd have a name, address, phone number for each person who registered. When you have to give your information to sign up, you think twice about signing up if you aren't sure that you can make it.
In my mind if i prepay for a game I'm looking for more effort on promoters than what traditionally has been shown
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