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"We sent a contract, and asked for a deposit. Months went by. A few times they asked when they could stop by to drop off the deposit, but never actually did so."

The venue's actions seem pretty reasonable to me. They gave the organizers some slack, assuming these are basically decent people. It's not like they're dealing with some unknown or shady operation.

Still, discovering a Twitter-related operation turned out to be much noise/little signal shouldn't be that surprising :)

Yes, and a name like 'Twestival' should automatically translate to double deposit, cash only please.

He does mention at the start that promoters are mostly like this, so it wasn't the red flag that it sounds like.

The client was doing for charity. Which, as I'm sure many people know from experience, gives them carte blanche to be arseholes.

Yeah. Sometimes you try to avoid having to do business the way everyone else does, and sometimes it costs you, which sucks.