I’d heard an amazingly stupid rumor over the weekend that I wanted to squash as well as ask if anyone has heard anything like it and from which areas. Though I expect anyone who might have heard it will either have “forgotten” where they’d heard it or were the ones to have made it up themselves. The rumor in question was that RenProd events would insist that guilds/vendors/acts do their shows and only their shows. Anyone who pauses for more than three seconds would notice that it’s both an impractical as well as inconsistent with everything that we do out there.
So for the record, if you’ve heard that one, it’s not true. If you hear someone spouting about it, please ask them where they heard it from (though I’ll expect they’ll suffer the same bouts of sudden amnesia as I’d heard over the weekend).
Not sure if the authors of this piece of telephone are just stupid, or desperate. Or both.
Anyway, so there you have it. If you hear it, it’s simply not true. I think it’s almost time to begin creating these emails in the format of internet hoax announcements.
Bill
RenProd/Valhalla/Golden Gate/Shasta/etc.
So for the record, if you’ve heard that one, it’s not true. If you hear someone spouting about it, please ask them where they heard it from (though I’ll expect they’ll suffer the same bouts of sudden amnesia as I’d heard over the weekend).
Not sure if the authors of this piece of telephone are just stupid, or desperate. Or both.
Anyway, so there you have it. If you hear it, it’s simply not true. I think it’s almost time to begin creating these emails in the format of internet hoax announcements.
Bill
RenProd/Valhalla/Golden Gate/Shasta/etc.
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Re: Rumor silliness
Mon, December 31, 2007 - 10:37 AMthis looks to me like an old item that used to actually be done by another Renaissance promotor who insisted no one do a show within 50 miles of "their" shows. This was actually part of the contract, I may still have a copy of. It was brought to pass when another promotor bought a piece of property nearby to open a show of their own, with a permanent village. Needless to say some people went ahead anyway and just changed the name of their business, - and had two locations at the same time- whist minons of the first promotor walked around the 2nd event to see who the actually had a booth there.. This actually did happen, I was there in person, with my booth under another name. I am pleased to say that nothing happened to us, and this statement was never made again.
so there you have it.
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Re: Rumor silliness
Tue, January 1, 2008 - 7:51 AM10, or so years ago MNRF tried to put a non-compete clause in performers' contracts for fairs within 500( ?ithink that was the amount??) miles when the Fargo, SD show opened, but most of the performers simply crossed that line out in the contract before signing it. -It was pretty hard to enforce when almost the entire MNRF royal court was doing the Fargo show as a group.
More recently the Louisiana fair seems to have tried to keep their vendors from doing any other nearby Renfaire that had school days. Apparently when the Acadiana Medieval Faire opened LARF felt it was taking away some of the schools that had been attending their school days. But if I remember they are only about 100 miles apart as the crow flies, although LARF is in the fall and Acadiana is a spring show. It was discussed on this forum tinyurl.com/ypbz42 although the link to a picture of the contract was removed.
