I could scream.

[conuly]

So every year the NY Homeschoolers group (NYCHEA) has a group buy for six ski trips. And this year, with just Eva, I found the money to go. Except there's no train or bus that runs there, really, so I'd have to carpool.

You understand I wanted to set this up before I shelled out $250, but the person who handles organization said that oh no, everybody does that after they pay. So, reluctantly, I paid up.

If everybody organizes it, then everybody is leaving me out of their organizational loop, and nobody replied when I sent out a group email to people who have signed up for the trip OR when I posted to the general mailing list. So it's looking like we'll miss the first trip, which is Thursday, and it sucks and I am not happy.

At their website it does suggest I could catch a bus from Port Authority... but that's fully $85 a ticket. That's more than half the cost of the entire ski package right there, burned on getting there and back once. I can't do that.

Comments

[movingfinger]

What does the person who handles organization say about you been stuck for transportation after she assured you that it would be arrange-able?

(Sounds like they ought to arrange a bus, which is a lot more normal than everybody improvising carpools. My local Parks & Rec runs a ski bus every year.)

[conuly]

Haven't contacted her about this yet. I'm waiting to calm the hell down.

[healme365]

Rude! i would take you if i could.

[conuly]

For serious.

Well, today's mailing list digest was just delivered to my email, so maybe I'll have a last minute offer. I did get one reply... but they started off with "can you drive?" which makes me think they can't drive either!

[jesse_the_k]

Ugh. So frustrating!

[conuly]

I KNOW.

The first ski session is postponed now due to weather, so I'll try again this week for the next one.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Call the person who handles organization and demand your money back, and if she gives you any guff, you might mention the word fraud. You shelled out $250 on her assurances about car-pooling, which seem to have been made of airy nothing; it's her responsibility to make this right.

[conuly]

Well, that's one option. I'm still debating what I'll do. This week's session is postponed due to weather anyway, so I've got a few more days to arrange something.