On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:46:05 -0800 (PST), voxwoman
 wrote:
>On Dec 19, 12:00 pm, Amy Guskin  wrote:
>> >> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:51:04 -0500, Blair Leatherwood wrote
>>
>> (in article ):
>>
>>
>>
>> > 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. <<
>>
>> Also, it's a big enough that my hunch is that it really doesn't matter who,
>> or how many, are booked as guests right now.  People _know_ that they're
>> going to have big name guests, and lots of 'em.  I doubt most people go to a
>> con like that for one specific person.
>>
>> Amy
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>
>And you don't know who's buying the tickets, or how many at once - I
>am very interested to see if large quantities of tickets go up for
>auction on eBay or something later on. DragonCon hotel rooms are
>getting like that, I think. If you want to get a room in the main
>hotel, you have to book it a year in advance (that's what some people
>on a D*C list do, anyway).
>
>I suppose it's a good thing for this niche of fandom to basically go
>mainstream, but all it does for me is keep me from attending. When
>events get this big, I don't have much fun.
>
>-Wendy
Well, supposedly, the tickets are non-transferrable.  You have to buy
them in the name to be used on the day of the event.  But, that
doesn't mean someone hasn't come up with a scheme to get around
this...
Charlie
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