by mkirsch
RIT was my first, and will be my last, and only experience as a vendor at a train show.
I did not know until after I paid my $50 for my one tiny table that I would be held hostage for the entire weekend. I respected their rules but their rules have lost them a potential repeat attendee. Smacks of a bunch of indoctrinated book smart college kids with delusions of power. Not sure why I was surprised.
The crowd was thin at all times. I've stood outside for half an hour in line to get in well after the show started in years past... I can't imagine they had much of a line at any time this year unless they're really inefficient at the door. Most of the kids were completely uninterested in the trains; they just wanted to hit the vendors selling toys.
The only saving grace to being held hostage was most of my sales happened in the 2PM-4PM Sunday timeframe, long after I would have left in disgust the way things went the rest of the weekend. Had I been allowed to pack up and leave after Saturday, I would not have come back Sunday.
...and Buffalo managed to figure out how to lose the game in the last seconds...
I did not know until after I paid my $50 for my one tiny table that I would be held hostage for the entire weekend. I respected their rules but their rules have lost them a potential repeat attendee. Smacks of a bunch of indoctrinated book smart college kids with delusions of power. Not sure why I was surprised.
The crowd was thin at all times. I've stood outside for half an hour in line to get in well after the show started in years past... I can't imagine they had much of a line at any time this year unless they're really inefficient at the door. Most of the kids were completely uninterested in the trains; they just wanted to hit the vendors selling toys.
The only saving grace to being held hostage was most of my sales happened in the 2PM-4PM Sunday timeframe, long after I would have left in disgust the way things went the rest of the weekend. Had I been allowed to pack up and leave after Saturday, I would not have come back Sunday.
...and Buffalo managed to figure out how to lose the game in the last seconds...