[Deptheads] Dealers Room at OrcCon
Eric M. Aldrich I
ealdrich at penguinlust.org
Thu Feb 21 09:08:41 PST 2008
We still do this. The War House is one place we do it and I don't know who else, but we've never turned these away from dealers that were at the show after the fact. Still, I'm not sure if we've gotten any outside the War House.
Eric
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:36:11PM -0800, Janice Sellers wrote:
> Thank you for thinking of that, Heather. Your posting that reminded
> me that someone came and talked to me during the con about the problem
> of people not being able to use their Dealer Dollars for various
> reasons and asking if there are any solutions. I know that when
> Rocky's group owned the cons, he arranged for a few of the retailers
> to be willing to accept DD for a short while after the con (I think a
> couple of weeks), and I guess Rocky paid the other retailers back for
> whatever they took in. I don't know if that policy was abandoned
> deliberately by this new ownership group or if it slipped through the
> cracks accidentally, but perhaps it's something that could be
> revisited to see if it's feasible to bring it back.
>
> Janice
>
> On 2/20/08, Heather Hughes <heather at gibsongirl.net> wrote:
> > BTW: I personally went around to each table in Boardgaming (Ballroom ABCD),
> > and the surounding rooms to remind everyone they had 20 mins before the
> > dealer room closed on Sunday night. I saw several people jump up and run
> > off to buy stuff before it closed. I think we should make annoucements each
> > con, to encourage shopping. Otherwise they forget and then try to go when
> > they have finished their game, only to find it closed.
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