17 Oct
2000
17 Oct
'00
10:36 a.m.
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Aaron Nabil wrote:
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Mike Ford wrote:
I wasn't there, but I take it that some vendors dumped stuff they couldn't
sell? What is the problem with that?
Well, personally, I think it demonstrates poor character (the mentality is
"if no one will give me money for this then I'm not going to give it away
either"...basically like the type of people who would rather scrap
something than sell it for less than they think it's worth) but that's
just my opinion.
However, since in this case I get to call the shots, I won't allow this to
happen at the VCF. It happened this year and last because I didn't have a
policy about it and I didn't know it was happening until this year.
Vendors
dumping Schtuff after VCF.
Details still have to be developed.
Just don't make it so vendors dumpster stuff anyway, only some other
dumpster than a nice convient one. From now on, I'd like the vendors to leave with
what they bring, or if
they choose to leave it behind, it will have to be made free,
first-come,
first-served. However, finding a way to enforce this that won't tick off
a vendor will require some thought.
I brought a bunch of Apple //e systems to sell and only managed to hawk
one. I didn't want to go home with the rest of them, and I certainly
didn't want to trash them, so I yelled "FREE APPLE //E SYSTEMS!!!" and a
few people came running. Problem solved :)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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