The lack of water tables in the dealers room, as well as garbage pails was a bit of an annoyance to the dealers, I know there was not much space in the dealers room, but for a few artists, leaving your table to get water from the hallway is not always the best thing. The art Show setup to me was not the greatest, iThey had no signs up showing where it was, and it was only a corner of the regestration room having to go behind the regestration table to get into it. The Games room and the con suite room. I felt as a guest, I had the right to use the rooms as they were deemed marked, get a snack at the con suite, play a few games in the game room. But being removed form said rooms due to LARP's really did not impress me much. The Print shop was a great idea posticon and very useful, but i found the prices a little high, but thats convienience for you. Some of the volinteers were not the most friendlest bunch, when asking questions about events or needing to locate an item for a dealer, such as tape or scissors. Also being stopped numerous of times to show voulinteers my con badge on the last day (which was in plain sight) kinda got irritating, expecially when runnig to get stuff for a customer. I know you were trying to make sure no one was there that should no be, but getting called over and having your badge hand inspected was not really plesing.. expecially more then once..
It seemed to me, the con was a bit laxed in prep, the dealers map was not out till about a couple days before the con, and when asked about it, i was told the layout was not started, and may not be done till the day of the con, Also when pre-regestering, i was confirmed the con entrance was paid for, then 2 weeks later my art table was confirmed, then a week later my art pannel was confirmed.. why the delay in the conformations on the last 2, I thought the confirmations would come all at once, not 2 -3 weeks after the Con regestrations. Also the confusion on the Dealers package, It was said that you were updating the progress on the site, but as a dealer, i would of liked e-mails on the progress. I don't always have time to pop on the site to check eveything out, especially when it came to how we are to claim taxes, and the forms we needed to apply for.
Other complaints were the dance, it was not impressive for the first 2 hours havng a key board player playing gameshow music and other tunes while the Staff DJ tried getting his MP3 player up and running.
A major issue it the Con is not an ANTHRO convention, and moved towards the anime con groups. There for Sales rally were low, many artists only sold 1-5 pieces, not covering the costs of the con. many of the artist are not returning and will be Attending Anthrofest in Montreal instead. A con geared to the Furry community.
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