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Home from O-ChibiCon...
Aug. 9th, 2005 06:32 amWell, it's just a good thing I wasn't picked for a jury yesterday, because I just spent ten toss-and-turn hours more or less asleep, reaching the peak of the all too predictable post-con flu. (Cold. Whatever.)
Business, in short: $350 for tables, free crash space with Russ and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
starcat_jewel, a bit less than $100 for gas and food combined- call it $450 total expenses, and just under $600 total sales. Slightly more than half the total sales were T-shirts, particularly the Glomp, Eyes babydoll, Tofu and Fangirls shirts.
Rather than beginning a detailed chronological report which I might never finish, here are some "highlights".
( How I Spent My Weekend, Prior to Monday Morning in Court and Monday Afternoon Mostly in Bed... )
All in all, I'm not permanently cheesed off at O-Chibi, but I am much less than impressed. The facility (the Hampton/Clarion conjoined hotels on Beltway 8 near Bush Intercontinental) was horrible, organization was nonexistent, but at least you and yours worked overtime to let people know I was upstairs, and you even herded a few folks up. I didn't hurt too badly by going, and I'll consider it next year... if Artist's Alley rules loosen enough to admit publishers, or if DR prices come down. $200/table or thereabouts is too much for the same rough attendance and sales as AggieCon, which has under $100/table DR prices.
Business, in short: $350 for tables, free crash space with Russ and
starcat_jewel, a bit less than $100 for gas and food combined- call it $450 total expenses, and just under $600 total sales. Slightly more than half the total sales were T-shirts, particularly the Glomp, Eyes babydoll, Tofu and Fangirls shirts. Rather than beginning a detailed chronological report which I might never finish, here are some "highlights".
( How I Spent My Weekend, Prior to Monday Morning in Court and Monday Afternoon Mostly in Bed... )
All in all, I'm not permanently cheesed off at O-Chibi, but I am much less than impressed. The facility (the Hampton/Clarion conjoined hotels on Beltway 8 near Bush Intercontinental) was horrible, organization was nonexistent, but at least you and yours worked overtime to let people know I was upstairs, and you even herded a few folks up. I didn't hurt too badly by going, and I'll consider it next year... if Artist's Alley rules loosen enough to admit publishers, or if DR prices come down. $200/table or thereabouts is too much for the same rough attendance and sales as AggieCon, which has under $100/table DR prices.
