babelcon or bust
So this last weekend, I went to BabelCon, to sell my hats.
I sold 31 hats over 2 days. :( Not the sort of numbers I was hoping for. But I have MechaCon to make up for it.
Overall the convention was rather underwhelming. It was in Baton Rouge, an hour away from Lafayette, so I decided to just drive there both days. Which wouldn't have been so bad if I didn't get an email saying we should be there around 6am both days, failing to mention that the room wouldn't even be open to the public until 10, with the added trouble of no one even being there to let ME into the room on Sunday until about 8:30 or 9:00.
Plus there was some issues I had with the security. We were allowed to leave our stuff in the room overnight but there wasn't any security people hanging out inside the room, to watch over it as people packed up and left. I was the last one to leave, and could have jacked people's stuff and no one would have known. which is why I wanted to be there early on Sunday. Didn't want the room open and my stuff just sitting there, vulnerable. when they did let us into the room, no one even checked our badges wtf!
There was also the issue that you couldn't tell who was an attender or a Con Organizer. Everyone looked the same. =/ And I was told the badges were being made up before hand, and yet when I showed up some lady just wrote our names down on lamented construction paper. I didn't do much walking around, but it didn't seem like anyone was doing badge checks anywhere.
I did meet a bunch of cool people, and had some fun. Plus since I didn't have to pay for gas (David covered the cost of gas since we let him crash on the couch, woo!), it meant my only investment into the convention was the 75 dollars for the badges and table. So I broke even at least (I took in $726, and have to pay back David for the 75 he lent to cover the table, and the money I owe my mom for the hats so far).
On that note, how do you tell someone their feet stink? Because David, the guy who slept on our couch for the weekend, has rank feet. He never wears socks, and you can smell the old cheese scent all the way into the hallway! We fabreezed the shit out of the room after he left, and whenever he'd take a nap (or whever we had an excuse, like the cat taking a crap, etc). We didn't want to say anything and be rude, since the guy did give me the money to cover for the table, and he did lend us the money to cover the last month's rent when the roommies were crap (we have their wii now, for anyone interested. No money still, so I basically just bought a $500 wii). But he's spending the night a few times for the next convention, and I don't think we could survive it again.
I sold 31 hats over 2 days. :( Not the sort of numbers I was hoping for. But I have MechaCon to make up for it.
Overall the convention was rather underwhelming. It was in Baton Rouge, an hour away from Lafayette, so I decided to just drive there both days. Which wouldn't have been so bad if I didn't get an email saying we should be there around 6am both days, failing to mention that the room wouldn't even be open to the public until 10, with the added trouble of no one even being there to let ME into the room on Sunday until about 8:30 or 9:00.
Plus there was some issues I had with the security. We were allowed to leave our stuff in the room overnight but there wasn't any security people hanging out inside the room, to watch over it as people packed up and left. I was the last one to leave, and could have jacked people's stuff and no one would have known. which is why I wanted to be there early on Sunday. Didn't want the room open and my stuff just sitting there, vulnerable. when they did let us into the room, no one even checked our badges wtf!
There was also the issue that you couldn't tell who was an attender or a Con Organizer. Everyone looked the same. =/ And I was told the badges were being made up before hand, and yet when I showed up some lady just wrote our names down on lamented construction paper. I didn't do much walking around, but it didn't seem like anyone was doing badge checks anywhere.
I did meet a bunch of cool people, and had some fun. Plus since I didn't have to pay for gas (David covered the cost of gas since we let him crash on the couch, woo!), it meant my only investment into the convention was the 75 dollars for the badges and table. So I broke even at least (I took in $726, and have to pay back David for the 75 he lent to cover the table, and the money I owe my mom for the hats so far).
On that note, how do you tell someone their feet stink? Because David, the guy who slept on our couch for the weekend, has rank feet. He never wears socks, and you can smell the old cheese scent all the way into the hallway! We fabreezed the shit out of the room after he left, and whenever he'd take a nap (or whever we had an excuse, like the cat taking a crap, etc). We didn't want to say anything and be rude, since the guy did give me the money to cover for the table, and he did lend us the money to cover the last month's rent when the roommies were crap (we have their wii now, for anyone interested. No money still, so I basically just bought a $500 wii). But he's spending the night a few times for the next convention, and I don't think we could survive it again.