Charlie E. wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:52:15 -0500, Amy Guskin
>  wrote:
> 
>>>> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:15:43 -0500, Jan wrote
>> (in article ):
>>
>>> In article ,
Charlie E. says...
>>>> On 18 Dec 2009 15:17:52 -0800, Jan
 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, I know that SDCC is huge.  I like it a lot and
there's no doubt that 
>>>>> it's
>>>>> an excellent entertainment, well run.  But, c'mon now...
>>>>>
>>>>> They've already sold out of all 4-day passes (in
November!) and they put 
>>>>> one-day
>>>>> passes on sale this week and Saturday is already sold
out. And how many 
>>>>> guests
>>>>> have they announced so far?  Nineteen.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know what they're thinking except perhaps to
add pressure for fans 
>>>>> to
>>>>> attend their other shows but I don't think much of
this latest way of doing
>>>>> things at all.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jan
>>>> They just opened the one day passes on Tuesday, so they started
>>>> selling out really fast.  I still have a bad feeling about
this.  Are
>>>> they really put up ALL the tickets, and they have already
sold out? Or
>>>> are they only selling part of the tickets now, and will
have the rest
>>>> available later?  Can you imagine Warner's finding out
that they can't
>>>> send their folks to SDCC because they are all sold out?
>>>>
>>>> Charlie
>>>>
>>> I think that that's probably a different form of registration,
though I don't
>>> know for sure.  WB and the like would be exhibitors, wouldn't they?
>>>
>>> As for selling everything, I don't see any indication that they're not 
>> selling
>>> out completely.  Last year they did hold some auctions for
memberships of
>>> various types just before the show that I figured were
refunded memberships.
>>>
>>> Guess I'm just not a dedicated enough con-goer.  I want to at
least see a
>>> sampling of guests before I book airfare across the country. 
Especially for
>>> something over half a year away.  What's next?  They'll start
selling 2011
>>> memberships as soon as 2010 sells out? <<
>> What I don't understand is why you're blaming Comic-Con that the
tickets are 
>> selling out.  I thought maybe I was missing some key detail, like they were 
>> holding back big blocks of tickets arbitrarily.  Is that it?
>>
>> Amy
> 
> Hi Amy,
> That is the real question.  Now, it could be that 100,000 people were
> just wating for them to put them on line, and bought them up
> immediately.  However, knowing people, it amazes me that THAT many of
> them had their acts together to purchase something like this early...
> ;-)
> 
> Charlie
> 

If it's selling out that fast with a minimum of announced guests (and 
these probably aren't the big guns--I haven't looked), I'm thinking that 
the con has reached the point where it's no longer a place to go see but 
a place to be seen.

Some of what I've read recently indicates SDCC has already passed that 
point.

Blair
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