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Doctor Dre · 08-16-2004, 06:32 AM

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Originally posted by D-Money
Well, I've been screwed by venues that tell you what you want to hear before the party starts, then they a private VIP roped off for their people, when their people weren't allowed in the club let alone taking up VIP space and offending my VIP's when they'd flash their pass and get turned down. It happened in South Beach at the Shadow Lounge. Great Players Ball (1999), huge crowd for the venue, 90% mostly webmasters, some local chicks imported which I asked for, and that extra 50 guests that were friends of the owner in a private section.

Other venues have security looking for their tips from regular clients, they'll take the money and deal with any complaints from the promoters, they don't care, they want money. Miami is a tough place to get a venue 100% yours on a Saturday night. They'd charge thousands and thousands for that because they'd have to give up that guaranteed money. So the way parties get screwed is when you let them have ANY outsiders. I'm sure for a bar like that it would cost a guaranteed $50k to $100k to get it 100% exclusive for your own guests.

Anyway, I've got to cut Eroticafest some slack in that respects, you never really know the inner dealings that take place in advance. I've had my shit together with the management and security teams, even hired my own security staff to over see theirs and had problems still (C2K Vegas). Vegas and Miami are 2 of the hardest cities to get an exclusive deal on a venue during the weekend.

I've heard from a few people they had a blast, so I'm sure maybe we're just hearing the bad before the good, it's early still. Did 5% of the webmasters get turned down? Or 80%? It's too early to get a measure yet. Most reasons sound like it's due to dressing in shorts and stuff.

When one of the sponsors get turned off ... that's a real fucking problem