Dance kids scammed out of their Disney vacation

[WildcatDen]

Crispy - Stop defending yourself. Some minds cannot be changed. Alas, that is part of life. Mrs Adkins deserves and big Thank you which I am sure these kids and their families provided.

 

[WildcatDen]

That's not the way your post came across. Further if they were indeed wealthy how do you know they didn't pay cash?

So, your question is , "how do you know they didn't they pay cash?". I think the answer is in the article that a few parents paid with credit cards and as it turns out, Mrs. Adkins played a large part.

 

[luv]

http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/...ney-trip-saved-with-help-of-trace-adkins-wife

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What?

I sat and wondered about that for a while, lol. Then I gave up.

And I thought I'd stayed in all the WDW hotels except AoA. They've been holding out on me!

I'd like to stay in The Spare Hotel.

 

[kirstyelise]

http://www.sunherald.com/2013/08/12/4868680/community-steps-up-for-bay-high.html

This also happened recently in my town. The treasurer stole $12,000 dollars from the band and skipped town. Truly pathetic.

 

[Pixie VaVoom]

Sounds like something out of Rogers and Hammerstein "The Music Man". We even have a few folks on here doing the "pick a little - talk a little - cheep, cheep cheep - talk a lot - pick a little more" !! Anybody know where I am coming from???

 

[Evil Genius]

The really sad part for me is that I know the two that own(ed) Blue Sky Travel. In fact, Swoap is a former Imagineer!

I know Ann Carrol as well...my girlfriend is a dancer/choreographer in the area as well and they know each other well so we had been following this disaster for a while.

I'm just glad they didn't completely lose their trip. I just hope Swoap and his wife are made accountable.

 

[DisneyJoe]

The really sad part for me is that I know the two that own(ed) Blue Sky Travel. In fact, Swoap is a former Imagineer!

What did he do for Imagineering?

 

[Evil Genius]

What did he do for Imagineering?

Infrastructure mostly.

He worked in resorts on lighting and engineering.

 

[PolynesianPrincess]

This is a bit of an over reaction. I agree that the statement of where they are from is not really necessary or relevant, but to call it a terrible comment, or pathetic is frankly just as bad when you look at the intention of the statement.

Well, when I first read the comment, I took it as being very snarky. Perhaps had the poster worded it differently, people wouldn't have taken it in the way several of them (myself included) did.

 

[Patrick_Ears]

I wonder if this hurted other travel companies that does this.

 

[Fractal514]

Ok, what is with all of the zombie threads going on lately?

 

[Bolt]

I wonder if this hurted other travel companies that does this.

*hurt, *do

 

[Weather_Lady]

Ok, what is with all of the zombie threads going on lately?

What's a zombie thread?

 

[Bolt]

What's a zombie thread?

A thread that has been dormant for an extended time. Or one that eats brains.

 

[Fractal514]

A long-dead thread that suddenly comes back to life, and possibly eats your brains (when there is no clear indication as to why it has come back to life coughthisthreadcough.

 

[JillC LI]

Always thought Trace was great. Now I think his wife is too. Sad scheme though.

 

[dstrawn9889]

I sat and wondered about that for a while, lol. Then I gave up.

And I thought I'd stayed in all the WDW hotels except AoA. They've been holding out on me!

I'd like to stay in The Spare Hotel.

its the HTH... just dont use the main elevator bank.

 

[Patrick_Ears]

A thread that has been dormant for an extended time. Or one that eats brains.

haha you understand.

 

[lebeau]

Best part of the whole article:

“I very rarely hear of an incident like this,” Ricky Brigante of Inside the Magic, a website reporting exclusively on Disney company and theme parks news, told Yahoo! Shine. “In fact, I don't remember ever hearing about such a large dollar amount being scammed like that.”

Apparently he tracks fraud now?!? Nothing against him, but why is a supposedly legit news source asking a blogger these kinds of questions?

 

[wdisney9000]

Best part of the whole article:

“I very rarely hear of an incident like this,” Ricky Brigante of Inside the Magic, a website reporting exclusively on Disney company and theme parks news, told Yahoo! Shine. “In fact, I don't remember ever hearing about such a large dollar amount being scammed like that.”

Apparently he tracks fraud now?!? Nothing against him, but why is a supposedly legit news source asking a blogger these kinds of questions?

Inside the Magic collaborating with Yahoo! News. Great recipe for ________ <----(insert synonyms for stupidity here) mostly due to Yahoo! News, nothing against Inside The Magic