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From: Mary.Otten@p0.f1055.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Mary Otten)
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Subject: hotel rates
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Date: 20 Jun 91 20:06:55 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

I hesitate to even mention this here, as I have no proof. So, Iwill say
that I have heard and am in no way endorsing this as true, because Ido
not personally know it to be so, that the reason the NFB is able to get
such unbelievably favorable rates is that when they sign up to go
somewhere they not only guarantee that there will be sch and such a
number of people coming to the hotel, they back that up with some sort
of cash advance payment. I say again, Ido not know this to be true from
personal knowledge. I heard it last year in the context of wondering
why, now that ACB has gone to the multi-year negotiations instead of the
zoo that we used to have, we're not getting anything even remotely close
to the rates NFB gets. The answer Igot is the cash payment story. True?
Who knows. Onething's for sre. A call to the NFB national office isn't
going to elicit an affirmative response, regardless of whether the
statement is true.

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