"You have to pay for our screw up!" Con Wank
Anime Central is one of the bigger anime conventions in America (about 15,000 people) celebrating its 10th anniversary. One of the differences they started this year is that they had an option this year that they'll send the badges to you so you don't have to wait in line for 2 hours. The convention starts on May 11th and it's now it's May 1st and no one has received their badges yet even though they said the first batch went out on April 16th. After plenty of "OMG! Where's my badge?! I have to travel!" posts, administrator GrammatonCleric posted a thread (notice no one can reply to it) which I'll summarize:

"You'll get your badge, you guys still have a little over a week to go. It will show up! We totally planned this out! But if you don't get it before the con, all you have to do is have proof you paid, stand in line, and pay an extra $25 for a replacement badge. Tough titties!"

The staff and the forum mods are soon SHOCKED to find out PEOPLE ARE NOT HAPPY.

Edit: ONE PERSON GOT THEIR BADGE SO FAR! Out of probably thousands.

Edit the Second: palefire pointed out that B. Turner found out about the F_W post.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/animecons/message/25729

Edit the Ininityth: Stop confusing me, I read replies backwards via email.

onyxnoir: Seems ACen has been re-thinking their badge policy.

whimsy_chan:

New development. Acen staff has seen the light; all is well.