[Deptheads] Miniature Feedback Received

[Eric M. Aldrich I]

Keep these stories coming -- the more anecdotes we pile up the better  
case we'll have (if it comes to that).

Eric

On 06 Jun, 2008, at 18:39, Robyn Nixon wrote:

> Further feedback.  I ran into a friend of mine who I know has been  
> going to
> Strategicon for several years now.  He and his wife always enjoyed the
> convention as their thrice a year vacation away from home.  They  
> looked
> forward to playing in the RTTs on a consistant basis, and then  
> gaming till
> the wee hours of the day in the Board gamers area.
>
> I was at the GW battlebunker and he was there, and seemed to be  
> avoiding my
> site nor saying hello.  Given how much I was envangilizing on the  
> local
> miniature boards and the groups that we participate in, I guess I  
> shouldn't
> have been surprised, since he wasn't at the convention.
>
> So I approached him "hey, how y'a doing, I didn't see you at  
> Strategicon
> this past con...blah, blah, genial conversation opener".
>
> He started to say "Well my wife had to work ...." paused, and then was
> honest with me:  "Actually what is was that last convention we went  
> the
> rooms and the hotel were total pooh (he used a harsher word).  We have
> always enjoyed going to Strategicon, and looked forward to spending  
> the
> weekend at the convention, but we hated the rooms and the venue.   
> Until
> Strategicon moves, we won't be back".
>
> Now he and his wife are heavier individuals, and given the lack of  
> elevators
> in the hotel it is a major hurdle for them to go anywhere in the  
> hotel that
> isn't on one floor without the use of elevators.  Even the "gradual"  
> steps
> between the first and second floor of the Radisson is a hardship.
>
> He is sincere in this opinion, and I know that he is a vocal person,  
> so
> bends the ear of many people.
>
> If this had been the only person in the miniature gaming community,  
> then I
> would agree with Eric N's dismissal of a single misinformed  
> crackpot.  But I
> am running into a brick wall among the community on this!
>
> I admit it, I'm a fanboy (or fangirl), and even if you held the  
> convention
> at the local YMCA, I would probably still attend, but not everyone  
> is like
> that.
>
>
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