Slayercon 2005 was to be held in
Adelaide on July 2-3, and guests were to include Amy Acker (Fred),
Julia Benz (Darla), Clare Kramer (Glory) and Iyari Limon (Kennedy).
The website at
http://www.scoobygangpromotions.com
just says that the convention has been postponed, and that it will be
rescheduled, hopefully in October. It also says that no refunds will be
available until the new date is confirmed.
South
Australia's commissioner for Consumer Affairs, Mark Bodycoat, says he
has received a number of complaints, and: "We're need to secure refunds
for consumers of some alternative arrangement if we can and secondly
we're not satisfied that there hasn't been some inappropriate
behaviour."
The OCBA is investigating amid fears that Mr
Schumacher has left Australia with the fans' money, but has been unable
to located him. Nor has the convention centre - apparently Schumacher
had paid a deposit but had cancelled the event at short notice.
This
convention is NOT connected to another Buffy convention which is
running in Melbourne on the same weekend and which is still going
ahead. Guests are James Marsters (Spike), Anthony Stewart Head (Rupert
Giles) and David Fury (Buffy writer/executive producer). See
http://www.tabularasa.com.au for details.