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Update on GenCon Bankruptcy – Letter from Peter

by Bob

From The GenCon Community Forums:
Friends:
 Today Gen Con is filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection.
 Essentially what happened is that we lost a lot of money this year running a licensed non-Gen Con event.  We owe several companies money from this show and it’s going to take time to pay them off.  To protect ourselves from the [...]

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GenCon Web Site Back Up

by Bob

Here is the link to the press release.
 Chapter 11 doesn’t mean they are going under for certain, like I said before.  But it does make them rather vulnerable in some respects.
Someone on one of the links I sent you earlier made the point that Peter could reach into his back pocket and settle the Lucasfilm on [...]

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GenCon Goes Bankrupt

by Bob

NOT good news.
I discovered this, literally, 2 minutes after I finished my new Squidoo Lens on GenCon.
Friday, Peter announced that GenCon LLC is filing chapter 11 bankruptcy. 
It’s chapter 11, which means restructuring, as opposed to going out of business.  Still, it doesn’t bode well when it happens the same week that Lucasfilm sues GenCon for [...]

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