Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:57:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: dragoncon
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Ted White wrote:

>> At 09:45 AM 7/20/05 -0400, Michael Walsh wrote:
>>>> dalek_cag at yahoo.com 7/19/2005 5:15:10 PM >>>
>>>> I'm not going to be able to go to Dragoncon so I'm
>>>> selling my membership.  I paid $50 and the convention
>>>> charges a $20 transfer fee,
>>>
>>> Tranfer fee?  How droll.
>>
>> Sounds like a good reason to always register in a gender-neutral form
> (Pat,
>> Chris, Gonjelor, etc.) and have a computer and laminator so you can make
> up
>> some decent-looking fake ID for anyone you sell it to.  I doubt the con
>> registration people are going to do a full background check with
>> fingerprinting to verify it.
>>
>>> What next, a Personal Badge License fee?
>>
>> Probably.  Or royalties on the design.
>
> What I don't understand is why people pay Big Bucks to go to for-profit
> cons like Dragoncon.

Same reason, to use the term loosely, that teens and pre-teens pay even
bigger bucks to go to media/comic cons, which are probably for profit --
at least, if Hollywood promoters are spending a quarter million bucks (as
the POST said of CiomiCon) to promote their products there, the sponsors
are a few bricks shy of a load if they aren't skimming the profits at the
very least.  The attendees Want To Belong, and have a lot more money than
common sense.

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