A New Fursuiter want to Celebrate his Birthday @ Anthrocon for FREE!!!!!
 "Your Either a Furry or your against us!!!" Location: Wynantskill, NY (Upstate)
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please i do need your help since i just lost everything...my ride to and from, the registration, and a room. My birthday is on June 26 i could use your help. i don't have alot of money because my job sucks and i don't get paid enough..i'm from Wynantskill, New York which is 20 mins away from Albany. i did plan this several months ago but i just lost everything yesterday and i can't stop crying about it if you bring me i'd be eternally greatful we can be good friends and since it will be my birthday the entire week we can party alot. Contact: Bryan Fong on Facebook or FA as i'm Koraggrules |
Ugh.
Dude, just being honest... if you don't have the money, you shouldn't be going on vacation. Nobody's really ENTITLED to come to the con, it's something you plan for, and you save up for, and you go to if you can afford it. If your money situation is so bad that you basically can't offer to chip in at all for ANYTHING (registration, hotel, travel, food) then you definitely, definitely shouldn't go. Scrub the plans, go another year. That's it.
While it definitely sucks to hear bad news, the bottom line is that AC's not particularly cheap. The cost of transportation from NY, rooming and registration is significant, and that's not even counting the fact that you're going to need to eat while you're at the con. For you to expect a complete stranger to take on the burden of paying for you to go on vacation is a LITTLE bit unreasaonable.
I'd say don't put yourself out further, don't go to the con this year and come next year when you have more money and more time to plan. Anthrocon will be around for a long time, this isn't the last one, and in the meanwhile you can maybe go to local events to get your share of furry socialization. Then, after planning and saving money, you can come to the con next year on your own dime.
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You claim to have a job, then you should understand the value of hard work and that other people have to work for their money too, it's just downright selfish of you to think that someone else is going to pay for your expenses just because you can't do it on your own. Sorry to hear your plans fell through but you can't expect someone to pay all that money and then get your friendship as compensation.
You should just stay home this year, save up for another event or if your job pays as poorly as you claim, start saving now and then you might be able to attend next year.
I've attended Anthrocon since 1999. I missed three years: two due to illness and one due to lack of funds after illness. (I'm not looking for sympathy, here.) Each one of the years I missed, I would have preferred to have been at Anthrocon. I couldn't go. You know what happened?
I missed Anthrocon. That's all. The world didn't end. It wouldn't end this year either if I couldn't attend... and I have a very big reason to be there this year.
I'm bringing an old friend to the con, an artist. I've paid for her membership and transportation costs. I'll be paying for the hotel room. She will be repaying me in both cash and artwork. I've known her for over thirty years. If I'm making a close frend of over thirty years' duration pay me, why should I pay for a stranger to attend for free?
<blockquote>i lost everything <blockquote>
well heres the thing a good friend of mine which was the driver and he's 18 was paying everything for me but i do have full time job, and i do got some money but it was only being used for the convention since i'd like to go and make Furry Friends since i don't have any plus i need to go since my group is going to be in a skit.
I think the general gist of the responses you've got is 'bad things happen sometimes, and you have to live with them.' Since masquerade skits aren't actually lined up and scheduled until you're at the event, the lack of someone's presence before the con has even started really won't affect things much.
On a scale of 1 to 10, not being able to go to anthrocon is definitely near a 1 as far as 'how urgent a crisis is it.' If you don't have the money, you can't expect a complete stranger to pay for you. End of story. Lots of people have wanted to go to the con in the past but been unable to for financial reasons, and all they had to do was wait until next year and come when they were better prepared. That's it. It sucks you don't have the money, and I'm sorry to hear you won't be joining us, but asking randomly for handouts is not going to make you any friends, which is your stated goal. People resent that sort of attitude - just being honest with you.
If you have truly lost everything . I think the urgency right now is not to go to a con. But rather to try and get everything back and put yourself in a better financial status.
Like others have said . You HAVE to have priorities.
Xenia Onatopp , she's all woman 
<blockquote>and i quote "i do have some money" <blockquote> i got $200 in cash and $200 on a debit card i should be fine
$200 in cash and $200 on a debit card?
Oh honey, please, please, please tell me that's $400 for the trip, not $400 total.
I know how miserable it is to have to stay home from a con, especially when you've been looking forward to it for months. But be sensible--if that's all the money you have in the world, you need to focus on the immediate goal of getting back on your feet again and making sure you have money for room and board (read: food, home, electricity, and all those other importent items) for the immediate future.
If someone else is taking care of you, and it's not your parents in one of those "sure, dear, you can come home for a while" deals, your next goal needs to be financial independence. If you are living with your parents in one of those somewhat indefinite kinds of ways, financial independence should still be high on the list, but you can always try asking them if they'd consider making a trip to a con into a single big birthday present for you.
It's your decision, of course. But i would strongly advise against travelling to the con, even if someone does offer to cover your travel and hotel costs. You need your money for taking care of your basic welfare right now, not going away on a big vacation. There are lots of less expensive ways your friends and family can celebrate your birthday--ways that don't require you to beg strangers for financial support.
Greetings, Bryan!
Hmmm - use of the word "lost" means that you actually had these things in your possession or within your grasp at one time - and perhaps they can be at least partially recovered. Let's see if we can concentrate on that, to start.
Now:
If you misplaced the records and receipts for these things, or they were somehow destroyed, then you can probably work around the loss.