[Deptheads] John Paiva's after action report

[Eric M. Aldrich I]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:50:24PM -0800, Patrick Havert wrote:
> >>
> >>I'd also like to take the demo tables in front of the Dealer room, to put
> >>the Payout crew there, so they have a bit more room to spread out.
> >
> >Doubt we can do this either -- what was wrong with where they were other 
> >than lack of signage?

> **** Eric, as they are there 15-16 hours a day, I'd like them to get a 
> little room to spread out.  The Dealers didn't really use those 2 tables, I 
> setup a few guys in the Ballroom so they got better exposure to people, so 
> the Open gaming wargamers used them for the most part.
> 
Ideally we should figure out what Ken(?) Fran and Beth want. That pillar is annoying.
> 
> >Erm, the only person really doing a lot of bidding was John Muiji, who is 
> >NOT a dealer. He is a game collector, and a rather well-heeled one at 
> >that. He drives or flys out from Vegas specifically for these auctions. 
> >And it's not like John goes overboard -- things were going cheap for the 
> >most part. There were four known game collectors in there that I saw 
> >bidding (myself included). John just has a bit more room in his 
> >house+basement to put the stuff. He purchased roughly 40 percent of what 
> >was sold at the auction by dollar amount (yes, I actually did count 
> >this -- I purchased roughly 8 percent and sold only 3...).
> **** I wasn't at the auction, I just know what people bitched about on the 
> Yahoo groups.  Perhaps if you mention to people that we have a collector in 
> the front row when he bids on everything?  I am uncertain of the exact 
> response from us, but people left the auction because someone in the front 
> row was bidding on everything, and the Yahoo Groups afterwards were several 
> flames.

Which yahoo group? I didn't see anything on the Strategicon one (I did clean out the SPAM whilst there). Yes, I'll post a response. Just let me know where.

Eric
>