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That reminds me of a funny story I heard when I was working on the Nitro Rooski / Capital City Fur Con thread a couple of years ago. Nitro infamously thought it was a great idea to pay for all of the expenses for the event's guests of honor, which might have been manageable if he had stuck to one or maybe two GOH. But no, there were EIGHT fucking guests, and the actual number might have been even higher because there are (unconfirmed) stories that he promised like 2 dozen furries all-expense paid trips only for them to show up to the event, get told "Whoops, we booked too many GOHs, you're not one anymore, but I'll still pay for your rooms, lol." Bear in mind, this was a first-year convention that had maybe 400-ish attendees, was horrifically understaffed, and almost shut down the first night because they didn't pay the hotel a deposit in the contract they agreed to.
Do you think that Nitro would seize on his obligation to pay for the dozens of free trips he offered to people in exchange for shilling his convention and proving those damn naysayers wrong? LOL, fuck no, he took the convention's cards off everyone's rooms and they all had to pay for it themselves, then he tried to DFE. We've got no exact numbers (because Nitro), but one conservative estimate believes this could have cost his (equally stupid) guests anywhere from $30K-$90K of their own money.
Anyways, my point is this: If you promise furries free shit like an all-expense paid trip, they will whine and bitch about not getting picked every single time. You'd think they'd learn not to take easy offers after what happened with CCFC, but it's furries we're talking about here.
