I am a great admirer of FMCA. I have referred numerous people to the group for membership and explained the benefits. However, I am amazed at the situation you have put yourselves in. You state that, "Most members do not know that most deposits for conventions are not refundable." Your deposits, indeed entire payment IS refundable (under specific easily met conditions) per your materials. So what others do is irrelevant. I expected to hear, after the cancellation of shows, that we would be receiving a refund for our payment in full for the Tucson show. Instead I receive a voucher for a future show - and one that has a time limit on it as well. There are no other shows in 2020. There's nothing to say a future show will necessarily be convenient for us within your arbitrary expiration timeframe. I don't understand how, when you have such an exposure that it puts your very survival at risk because of one or two shows, that you did not cover yourselves with event cancellation insurance. It's never happened before is true, but it can. It will never happen is obviously wrong - it did happen. It's too expensive to have coverage? Apparently it is too expensive NOT to have coverage and it will prove much more expensive not having it.
Again, I am actually a great supporter of FMCA. I am not a "Chicken Littles" out there that are pessimistic about most everything." I am hopeful, but that does not make me optimistic. My membership is up for renewal shortly and I expect I will renew. But I am not pleased with being offered nothing more than a future show voucher for my money. And I am concerned with FMCA's viability at this time and going into the future.
