RE: [Philmont]: Pretty basic question

Our troop works to get payment well ahead of time from participants so that any financial exposure will be placed on the participants not the troop. We're very clear that the exposure rests on the participants and if/should anyone have to backout, they have an obligation to help find a suitable replacement or forfeit the payments made. With a last minute outage where no replacement is possible, the people withdrawing understand the implication. Seems to work.

Randy Pfeifer
(847) 632-5563

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From: owner-philmont@troop47.com [mailto:owner-philmont@troop47.com] On Behalf Of Karl Hebert
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 6:33 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
Subject: RE: [Philmont]: Pretty basic question

Our crew had two participants drop the day before we were to depart for Philmont this year for very valid personal reasons, a father and son. We lost every dollar of those fees to Philmont. If we had to do it all over again we would only reserve and pay for seven slots upon making reservations, and show up with the additional heads and pay their additional fees upon arrival. I know this is playing the system and some may feel it not right, but for a troop to forfeit that much money for something that is beyond our control is simply too much to absorb.

Karl Hebert
Troop 39
Cumming, GA

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Received on Mon Aug 9 21:03:42 2004