Rationality does not belong exclusively to men only! We must all reason!

@tj han

I humbly accept the role of grunt trooper of CRAB.

@The Animanachronism

Huh? He did not?

Wish I could follow up with some joke, but then, my knowledge of Rousseau is limited to his Discourse on Inequality.

@reasonablyforeseeable

Suffice to say, there is really nothing to argue about for this matter. It is not as if the organisers will not listen to the feedback from those who have been made disappointed. Yeah.

@Starvade

We have to be satisfied in order to be free!

The best place to start is the advertisement for the ticket. It says that diamond VIP holders are entitled to: autograph and handshake session with the artist. I think this is what is getting everyone up in arms – it’s something that they’ve paid and were entitled to.

Of course you can get all technical and say that Autograph & Handshake session are disjunctive (AN autograph and A handshake session). But that would a) be at odds with the common phrasing of the terms (that promoters usually use) and b) the fault of the organizers not putting the specific disjunctive indicators in the first place.

The rest is cake – you’ve got an organizer either a) making false representations or b) failing to meet the terms of the contract (that is, the ticket that you’ve bought). Go bring out your Phoenix Wright cosplay because there’s fertile ground for a lawsuit.

Having said that though, of course there are very obvious reasons why people aren’t hiring lawyers. For one lawyers are expensive. Sometimes, the court will award “costs” to the winning party, meaning that the loser pays for the whole suit, but sometimes they don’t. So that’s several thousand dollars you’re gambling right there.

Further, even if you do win with costs, all you could get is your measly 100+ dollars back. That my friends is freaking peanuts to the organizers, and at any rate surely not worth the whole process of litigation. You’re not going to get the artist coming all the way back to Singapore to sign your stuff. Plus, if you’re doing this just for principle – realize that you can’t sue for everyone else. You can only sue for just your 100 dollars, which as mentioned earlier, isn’t even going to faze the organizers.

So the TDLR version: Unless you’re going to man up, hire a lawyer and sue on principle (because you’re not going to get much money out of this), then respectfully all you can do is qq more.

Simply put, there are battles you fight and those that you don’t. On one hand you’ve got this company offering sub par anime and suing people for intellectual property right abuses that they don’t even own. On the other hand, you have people not getting a signature in the way they expected to. I don’t think this question needs a lawyer to answer.

If the AFA is screwed up, there’s still the BFA!

Thank you for this post. IT IS SO RATIONAL MY HEAD EXPLODED. Man, I just submitted a totally whacked essay and I need manly logic and rationality.