[Announce] Warpstock -- Online Registration

[Andy Willis]

Warpstock 2005 will take place in less than a month, beginning Thursday,
October 6th at the Wyndham Harrisburg Hershey hotel.  Four days of
non-stop OS/2 and eComStation classes, presentations, product demos and
discussion.  Please see the schedule of presentations listed at
http://www.warpstock.org/event_info/2005/schedule.html

It has come to our attention that some credit cards were being denied 
since they were with
banks outside North America. We apologize for this inconvenience and if 
you were trying to
register at our online store and received a "512" error message that you 
now try
purchasing your registration again. We have updated the settings at our 
credit card
processor and have been led to believe that the changed setup will 
process the
transactions. If you have a problem with transactions at the store, 
please email:
customerservice at warpstock.org with a description of the problem. We can 
in most cases,
process the transaction manually once we are aware that an error has 
occurred without  
compromising your credit card number.

We also suggest that if you DO receive an error message from the store 
when trying to
conclude a transaction, that you DO NOT RETRY the transaction. Each 
attempt will send a
request to your financial institution to allocate funding for the 
pending transaction, and
may reduce your available credit line for a period time that is 
determined by your
financial institution. Just send an email to cutomerservice 
@warpstock.org and we will
handle the transaction manually, and send you a email confirmation.

Thanks for supporting Warpstock and I look forward to seeing many of you 
again in Hershey.

- Stanley Sidlov - Registration Coordinator/Treasurer Warpstock, Inc.

Warpstock, Inc., is a North Carolina corporation. The Warpstock annual
conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from
around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More
information is available at the Warpstock web site:
http://www.warpstock.org