From: Vanity Fair / Google
Date: August 27, 2008 9:06:32 PM PDT
To: Michael Arrington
Subject: IMPT: Google/Vanity Party Status
Reply-To: demconventionparty@google.comThank you for your interest in the Vanity Fair / Google Party.
We have reached full capacity for this event and are unable to accommodate additional guests.
If you have NOT received a Confirmation email–separate from the automated RSVP response– and a Party admission card with your name on it, you will not be admitted to the party. No exceptions.
If you HAVE received a confirmation email but have NOT picked up your admission card, you must reference your confirmation instructions and pick up your card by 4:00pm on Thursday.
Admission cards will not be distributed at the door.
If you use the shuttle service you must have your party admission card to board. No exceptions.
Thank you in advance for your understanding,
Vanity Fair & Google Events team
Google and Vanity Fair took the time to email me this evening to let me know I wouldn’t be able to attend their big party tomorrow night in Denver for the Democratic National Convention. The only problem is I never asked to attend. Actually I never even heard of it until tonight. But I asked around and lots of other people are getting this email as well. Is this their way of letting everyone know that they’re holding a really cool party and hanging out with the Vanity Fair Hollywood crowd? Or just some mixup in the email list? Who knows. But suddenly I feel kind of left out.
In the future though, Google, please wait until I actually ask to get into something really cool before you kick me off the list. 
I wasn’t planning on going anyway…
What about the Burning Man Party? Where is the RSVP for dat?
Oh . You know ,we are having a party at this …….
Oh. Forgot to mention .No more invites.
Thank you !
How many is “lots of other people”? I’m just curious because if we’re talking 10-20, rather than hundreds, it could give a clearer indication of whether it was a simple mix up or something more orchestrated.
a couple. Three’s a pattern.
Oh so finally people are getting to know about this party which they are not going to attend to all and which they are not being allowed to.
Weirdo Google!
I wish I am one of them…
If Michael is not invited, I’m not going as well. Sorry Google.
I thought scenarios like this went differently:
Goog: Hey Vanity, don’t forget to bring the beer for the party tonight!
Vanity: Sure, Google
Michael: What party tonight?
Goog: Did I say tonight? I meant next week. And it’s not a party anyway, just 3-4 friends getting together, no big deal.
Michael: Well, can I come?
Goog[AWKWARDLY]: Well, you see…I don’t actually know if there is going to be a party anyway, so….
But what happened now is just lame.
awesome.
Mind boggling. What geek with 0 social skills wrote that email? Are you sure this isn’t a hoax?
…written by the same “Loren Feldman” that Mark Cuban just answered to.
That’s effing funny. Whether they did it intentionally or by accident, they’re a bunch of LAME-Os. They probably did it on purpose to say hey look at us we’re the cool kids hangin’ with the Hollywood crowd. Like anyone cares.
Geez, I wish I could get uninvited to a party like that.
But if I went to a party, I wouldn’t be able to refresh TechCrunch every 30 seconds looking for important news like this.
Should have said
“Ya know, it’s fine really. I was thinking about going and then figured, damn. I have nothing to wear. And my hair needs to be done…oh well.”
well, maybe demconventionparty@google.com ist just a spam account? Maybe of Yahoo!?
Yahoo wanting to get people frustrated for not attending a party?
yes. i definitely think the most likely explanation for this is that Yahoo hacked Google’s Domain registrar and set up a fake email account, then spammed everyone.
hehe.. Nice one Mike! Let Google come back to you, i’m pretty sure they will do some lame excuses on this.. perhaps some ‘Really really sorry’.. cheers
Sweeeeeeeeet!!!
Any news from Google’s PR yet? A basket of muffins? A subscription to Vanity Fair maybe?
There are three types of people in the world. Those who got invited. Those who got your reject spam. And those of us that are so unimportant we didn’t even get the reject spam.
This is funny – sending you a “don’t come” message to a party you didn’t get invited to or know about in the first place. But Google/Vanity Fair sure know you well – by sending you that one email, they’ve got name recognition all over the place (here in TechCrunch, over on Twitter, etc). How much would they have had to _pay_ for such advertising?
bad PR any PR good PR
I’ll sneak out some prosciutto-wrapped asparagus for anyone who needs it.
mike, great post , comment just to show you the new formats working .. i would have never saw this “page view” without the -clip format -from what 2 days ago
i must admit i read graydons article every month – one of my faves
rg
so that “rejection” email actually required this response?
you guys so need a life…