From: dstbunny@clubzen.fidonet.org (Brin McLaughlin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: AnimeCon 92 missing check info
Date: 29 Sep 92 01:36:49 GMT
Organization: Club Zen BBS - Clan Zen Relay Network, Mountain View, CA

If you wrote a check to AnimeCon 92 and have not received it yet, or 
issued a stop payment on it, here is some important information for you.
 
Owing to a posts made here (Thanks - you know who you are), I think it's 
time to state once and for all how the AnimeCon 92 checks were handled.

When the staff of AnimeCon 92 decided to reorganize and become Anime Expo 
92, there were a number of checks made out to AnimeCon 92 but that had 
not been deposited. I was not in charge of the mail-handling of AnimeCon 
92, and I honestly do not know who was.

When the name-change/new parent organization took place, the AnimeCon 
Corporation offered to pay for the cost and oversee the return of check 
that were written payable to AnimeCon 92. The SPJA agreed to this, and so 
in Mid-April, Terry Yeung came to my house and delivered two boxes of 
correspondence to me.  He assured me that all of the uncashed checks were 
in these boxes.  I searched them, found the checks payable to AnimeCon 
92, and returned them to their senders. While the AnimeCon Corporation 
could afford to do so, we also included a stamped, self-addressed 
envelope with the address of the SPJA on it. All of the checks that I 
took delivery of were returned to their senders. If I never received the 
checks in the first place, I couldn't return them.

Additionally, many of you were told to issue stop-payment orders on your 
checks made out to AnimeCon 92. This action was NEVER sanctioned by the 
AnimeCon Corporation, and we did not find out that such orders were 
issued until weeks and weeks after the fact. If you issued a stop-payment 
order on your AnimeCon 92 check, then it was under the direction of 
person or persons who were NOT authorized to give such orders. This 
consitutes interference of commerce, which is illegal. Please send me 
E-mail with the name of the aforementioned person or persons so we will 
at least know who did such a dumb thing, and so that we can decide 
whether further action should be taken.

The person(s) who told you to stop pay were not authorized 
representatives of the AnimeCon Corporation, and are responsible for 
re-imbursement to you of related costs.
 
There were only two deposits this year into the AnimeCon Corporation's 
accounts, both of which were made by John McLaughlin. One was in mid-May, 
composed of checks and cash we received for cel sales at Wondercon, and 
the other was a few days back when AnimeCon Corporation sold the contents 
of the storage locker.

In short: I do not know where the missing checks are.  I returned every 
check that I was given. If you stopped payment, the AnimeCon Corporation 
didn't tell you to do that, so the AnimeCon Corporation is not 
responsible for those costs.

I hope this clears things up. Thanks you for your time, and please send 
me e-mail if you have further questions or would like to receive 
photocopies of our bank statements.

Brin-Marie McLaughlin

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