RE: [Philmont]: Pretty basic question

I've let our crew members know up front that their money is non-refundable,
and to make their checks payable to Philmont. Their money never even gets
into our troop account.
--Bob Schaettle
Rochester, Minnesota

>From: Pfeifer Randy-QA4427 <Randy.Pfeifer@motorola.com>
>Reply-To: philmont@troop47.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list philmont <philmont@troop47.com>
>Subject: RE: [Philmont]: Pretty basic question
>Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 19:41:50 -0500
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>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.
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>Randy Pfeifer
>(847) 632-5563
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>-----Original Message-----
>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
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>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.
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>Karl Hebert
>Troop 39
>Cumming, GA
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Received on Tue Aug 10 09:10:15 2004