18 Sep
2025
18 Sep
'25
9:06 a.m.
On 9/18/2025 3:29 AM, Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote:
VCFMW in Chicago was this past weekend!
Flew up with 2 bags, came back with 4 ! Funny thing is, my wife said she
was surprised I didn't come back with anything extra - well, I shipped
those extra 2 bags and they haven't shown up yet. Gives me one day to come
up with a cover story! :)
It's a "disease" that happens every time I
go :-)
There is so much going on at the Chicago VCF - I don't think any
individual can cover the whole thing.
I mentioned that in another thread. Last
year was the first time it was
large enough that I felt I could not visit or remember all of the
exhibits and vendors. In previous years, I'd be able to direct folks
from my table to other booths if I didn't have what they needed/wanted.
If it's any indicator: come Sunday afternoon,
merchants were fairly eager
to sell at any offer (some announcing that anything unsold would go
straight to scrap - maybe that's a ploy, but there were some under $10
bargains to be had, a kind of "everything must go" vibe).
As an exhibitor/vendor, can confirm the eagerness, but I do hope the
"goes to scrap" was a ploy, though I could see the e-cycle vendors on
the outside wall saying and meaning that (at least that it would go to
ecycling if not sold). I did put a few things that did not sell Saturday
on the free pile Sunday morning, which is pretty standard.
It appears my "Commodore 1541 Tower of Drive Power" made it to various
social media outlets. I was eager to make deals on those Sunday, as I
did not want to haul them home.
Jim
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