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	<title>Comments on: Grammy Winning Artist Ne-Yo to Perform Live at Meydenbauer Center New Years Eve</title>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Christ, is everyone in Bellevue made of ice? To the people who keep insisting we deserved to get hustled, I&#039;m not from Seattle. I drove up from two counties over with a friend because we thought it would be fun to do something special for our last New Years before we graduated. I have no clue about promotions or reputations or how events are typically run in the Seattle area. I just saw an event we could scrape together for and a chance to get out of town and, at least, &lt;b&gt;see&lt;/b&gt; Ne-Yo.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Yeah, this was an EXPENSIVE learning experience (especially for college students), but it sucked enough getting taken advantage of. We don&#039;t need some know-it-all jerk posting that our lack of omniscience is our own fault.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;FYI, I &lt;b&gt;had&lt;/b&gt; looked up info about the event before buying tickets, and I had seen people posting that they called KUBE, who confirmed Ne-Yo was coming, as well as seeing it on Mike Esterman&#039;s (Ne-Yo&#039;s booking agent) site. Even if his no-show was legit, there was no excuse for how weak the entirety of the event was. It was enough of a slap in the face to get taken advantage of, so go put your judgmental arrogance to use somewhere else. I&#039;m sure there&#039;s a family nearby that&#039;s been foreclosed out of their home and just WAITING to hear from someone how its all their own fault for not understanding financing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Christ, is everyone in Bellevue made of ice? To the people who keep insisting we deserved to get hustled, I&#8217;m not from Seattle. I drove up from two counties over with a friend because we thought it would be fun to do something special for our last New Years before we graduated. I have no clue about promotions or reputations or how events are typically run in the Seattle area. I just saw an event we could scrape together for and a chance to get out of town and, at least, <b>see</b> Ne-Yo.</p>
<p>Yeah, this was an EXPENSIVE learning experience (especially for college students), but it sucked enough getting taken advantage of. We don&#8217;t need some know-it-all jerk posting that our lack of omniscience is our own fault.</p>
<p>FYI, I <b>had</b> looked up info about the event before buying tickets, and I had seen people posting that they called KUBE, who confirmed Ne-Yo was coming, as well as seeing it on Mike Esterman&#8217;s (Ne-Yo&#8217;s booking agent) site. Even if his no-show was legit, there was no excuse for how weak the entirety of the event was. It was enough of a slap in the face to get taken advantage of, so go put your judgmental arrogance to use somewhere else. I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a family nearby that&#8217;s been foreclosed out of their home and just WAITING to hear from someone how its all their own fault for not understanding financing.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>People should to learn to understand when they are dealing with hustlers - which is exactly what WET Entertainment is... a bunch of no name hustlers.  Being a veteran in this business its pretty obvious that anyone who think Ne-yo (500,000k or more for NYE) showing up at the Meydenbauer Center deserves to get hustled and have their NYE ruined.  And a website that helps this promoter &#039;hustle&#039; his clients is either a) on the take, or b) full of shit.  Christ, do some research for godsake. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Sorry to those who got screwed, but there&#039;s a reason why promotions is a business based on reputations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People should to learn to understand when they are dealing with hustlers &#8211; which is exactly what WET Entertainment is&#8230; a bunch of no name hustlers.  Being a veteran in this business its pretty obvious that anyone who think Ne-yo (500,000k or more for NYE) showing up at the Meydenbauer Center deserves to get hustled and have their NYE ruined.  And a website that helps this promoter &#8216;hustle&#8217; his clients is either a) on the take, or b) full of shit.  Christ, do some research for godsake. </p>
<p>Sorry to those who got screwed, but there&#8217;s a reason why promotions is a business based on reputations.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nowhere on any advertisements did it say &quot;Ne-Yo will be performing live&quot; or anything to that effect.  It was simply &quot;Ne-Yo will be doing the countdown.&quot;  Too bad it was supposed to be a nothing more than a simple video countdown over a live satellite feed the whole time.  He was scheduled to be part of the NYC NYE Times Square party THE ENTIRE TIME!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nowhere on any advertisements did it say &#8220;Ne-Yo will be performing live&#8221; or anything to that effect.  It was simply &#8220;Ne-Yo will be doing the countdown.&#8221;  Too bad it was supposed to be a nothing more than a simple video countdown over a live satellite feed the whole time.  He was scheduled to be part of the NYC NYE Times Square party THE ENTIRE TIME!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wet Entertainment LLC was the company that set up the event.  I had corresponded with promoters that worked for the event, and they had stated that the tickets were really starting to pick up on the last couple of days.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Information from promoters stated that the event would hold up to 3,000 people, so clearly it had the &quot;opportunity&quot; to be one of the largest events in Bellevue.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I would&#039;ve linked to Wet Entertainment, but unfortunately they are nowhere to be found on the internet. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The event was very poorly put together regardless of Ne-Yo showing up or not.  Clearly in retrospect we wouldn&#039;t have put the event up if we knew the outcome.  We were mislead like the rest of you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wet Entertainment LLC was the company that set up the event.  I had corresponded with promoters that worked for the event, and they had stated that the tickets were really starting to pick up on the last couple of days.</p>
<p>Information from promoters stated that the event would hold up to 3,000 people, so clearly it had the &#8220;opportunity&#8221; to be one of the largest events in Bellevue.</p>
<p>I would&#8217;ve linked to Wet Entertainment, but unfortunately they are nowhere to be found on the internet. </p>
<p>The event was very poorly put together regardless of Ne-Yo showing up or not.  Clearly in retrospect we wouldn&#8217;t have put the event up if we knew the outcome.  We were mislead like the rest of you.</p>
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		<title>By: Sarah Lee</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sarah Lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s not the fault of Downtown Bellevue Network. How was anyone supposed to know Ne-Yo wouldn&#039;t show up? I got tickets to the event, and the few people I talked to from Wet Entertainment had nothing to say about Ne-Yo being a no show. This is why hip hop or R&amp;B artists get a bad rap. Real musicians don&#039;t make their fans disappointed. Any if they do, they make it up!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#39;s not the fault of Downtown Bellevue Network. How was anyone supposed to know Ne-Yo wouldn&#39;t show up? I got tickets to the event, and the few people I talked to from Wet Entertainment had nothing to say about Ne-Yo being a no show. This is why hip hop or R&amp;B artists get a bad rap. Real musicians don&#39;t make their fans disappointed. Any if they do, they make it up!</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This looks so bad for Downtown Bellevue Network.  I have relied on this site to help report the actual happenings in Bellevue and not to make them up.  For you to state that &quot;tickets are going fast!&quot; and it &quot;will turn out to be one of the largest parties on the Eastside!&quot; are not opinion statements.  Then to have the next post state that it was a total bomb and only a couple hundred people showed makes it sound like you don&#039;t really check your info before you post.  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;If you report from an original source you should link to them so at least we don&#039;t think you were the ones who did the research and then blame you when it turns out to be wrong info.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This looks so bad for Downtown Bellevue Network.  I have relied on this site to help report the actual happenings in Bellevue and not to make them up.  For you to state that &#8220;tickets are going fast!&#8221; and it &#8220;will turn out to be one of the largest parties on the Eastside!&#8221; are not opinion statements.  Then to have the next post state that it was a total bomb and only a couple hundred people showed makes it sound like you don&#8217;t really check your info before you post.  </p>
<p>If you report from an original source you should link to them so at least we don&#8217;t think you were the ones who did the research and then blame you when it turns out to be wrong info.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We made it to the &quot;party&quot; last night. To start with, at 11pm there were probably 200-300 people in the room, staring at each other and wondering if they were at the right place. The stage was setup for like a school performance - SO UNPROFESSIONAL. Then the announcement came - Ne-Yo no show. The whole thing was SUCH A JOKE and SO DISAPPOINTING. A refund with apologies for a wasted evening is the least WET Entertainment can do! (Anyone pointers to their website or contact details - it&#039;s not trivial finding them online...hmm)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We made it to the &#8220;party&#8221; last night. To start with, at 11pm there were probably 200-300 people in the room, staring at each other and wondering if they were at the right place. The stage was setup for like a school performance &#8211; SO UNPROFESSIONAL. Then the announcement came &#8211; Ne-Yo no show. The whole thing was SUCH A JOKE and SO DISAPPOINTING. A refund with apologies for a wasted evening is the least WET Entertainment can do! (Anyone pointers to their website or contact details &#8211; it&#8217;s not trivial finding them online&#8230;hmm)</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow what a bust. This party completely sucked with Ne-Yo not even showing up. Wish you all success getting a refund.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow what a bust. This party completely sucked with Ne-Yo not even showing up. Wish you all success getting a refund.</p>
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		<title>By: Andrew</title>
		<link>http://www.downtownbellevue.com/2008/12/30/grammy-winning-artist-ne-yo-to-perform-live-at-meydenbauer-center-new-years-eve/comment-page-1/#comment-1427</link>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow...this is a big name for downtown Bellevue!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow&#8230;this is a big name for downtown Bellevue!</p>
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		<title>By: Justin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Justin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure all the old rich people are going to be waiting in line to buy tickets...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure all the old rich people are going to be waiting in line to buy tickets&#8230;</p>
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