2 Aug
2005
2 Aug
'05
6:17 p.m.
First off, don't be such a cheapskate. IT IS ONLY TEN BUCKS fer cryin out
loud.
That's a fair and honest explanation and I
appreciate that. However, there
still is an issue of charging the people creating the draw for the event and
giving them absolutely nothing - i.e. by exhibiting, we have money to lose
and nothing to gain. That seems screwy to me. To be quite honest, I think
the entire financial load should have been put on the vendors' shoulders.
THEY are the ones gaining something from this, not the exhibitors.
Exhibitors get something from a booth, even if nothing is for
sale. Exposure. Exposure brings leads, and leads bring in more toys for
the exhibitor. Some collectors go to shows and exhibit for only this
reason. Ten bucks, or twenty, or a hundred, depending on the show, is
cheap if just one good lead comes up. At most hamfests these days, I make
more money on average from leads I pick up by having a table than the crap
I sell at it.
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org