Advice Needed: How to Confirm a Distant Host for a Show

[jasonmva]

I am suppose to have a show next Saturday with a host who lives roughly 1 hour away from me. With traffic, I wouldn't be surprised if it is 2 hours. Anyway, I emailed her last week to confirm the party, no response. I called and left a message last night, no response yet. I plan on calling again next week (Monday & Wednesday). If no response from her, I was going to call again on Friday and if I got her machine, I was going to leave a message pretty much stating if I do not hear from her then I will assume the party is cancelled.

Do you think this is a good game plan? I'm not really looking forward to the drive anyway but this is the only show I had booked for January.

 

[Chef Kearns]

Jason, I would probably leave the "I assume it's canceled message" on Monday. That way you won't spend your whole week worrying. It will also give her a little more time to get back with you. You could say, "if I don't hear from you on Wednesday then I will assume you need to reschedule the party. So please call me as soon as possible."

That stinks! Good luck!

 

[apriljc]

I agree with Chef Kearns. Hopefully she will call you back on Monday and tell you the party is still on. Let us know how things turn out.

 

[pamperedgirl3]

I agree too. I had a host do that in June. I did the first host coaching call with her & then never heard from her again. Didn't get her guest list 2 weeks before the show, so I started calling her to remind her to send it. As of a couple of days before the show, I still hadn't heard anything. So I left her a message saying that since I have not heard back from her I will not be coming & that if she'd like to reschedule to give me a call. Never heard from her again.

 

[dannyzmom]

I can't understand why people can't just have the courtesy to pick up the phone and say "I am sorry - I cahanged my mind and don't want to host the show anymore" rather than strinf us along...Man it burns me up!!!

 

[Koolotus]

I agree with the rest..... A no today is better than a no tommorrow!

 

[nikkijo]

I agree why can't the host just let us know if they don't want to have a party anymore? They could email us if they don't want to say it in person. I'm sure it's frustrating for them to have us to keep calling them and it's even more frustrating for us when we don't hear from the.

 

[pcchris]

I had a similiar experience in October - tried to get in touch with my host for 3 weeks...was ready to give up and leave her "the message", but she actually answered when I called, apologized profusely for not calling me back - she had several outside orders and her show ended up being over $1000! So, don't give up on her too easily would be my suggestion.

 

[scottcooks]

Try follow-up postcards or a note, too.