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Post Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:42 pm 
 

Just read the start of a thread over on Dragonsfoot saying that Crazy Igor's is no longer doing gencon. Spurious? Or is there any substance to it?

  


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Post Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:50 pm 
 

It's legit. I certainly can't speak for Egor but I understand from fellow collectors close to him that he "dislikes" Gencon and got screwed yet again this year so decided to stop attending. As I understand it he will continue to attend Origins which he "likes very much".


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Post Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:10 pm 
 

Yes, it was his last GenCon.


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Post Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:30 pm 
 

I think you read a post by me. It's legit if the coupon his people were handing out is legit.

The Gen Con forum moderators shut down 2 threads about it, which I find annoying:

http://community.gencon.com/forums/t/21797.aspx

http://community.gencon.com/forums/t/21790.aspx

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Post Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:46 pm 
 

Contrarian wrote:I think you read a post by me. It's legit if the coupon his people were handing out is legit.

The Gen Con forum moderators shut down 2 threads about it, which I find annoying:

http://community.gencon.com/forums/t/21797.aspx

http://community.gencon.com/forums/t/21790.aspx

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That's a shame. I pick up stuff from his ebay auctions from time to time. He has some good prices on Traveller items. He was also selling that limited gamescience Tegal Manor (which I've never gotten around to picking up) but I didn't see it up when I checked a week ago.

  

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Post Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:50 pm 
 

Contrarian wrote:I think you read a post by me. It's legit if the coupon his people were handing out is legit.

That's all I know.


I have seen CE at every Gen Con since 1982. I make it a point to shop his booth because of that very reason.

He is one of the few old guard and now he is gone, too.

This is a loss to Gen Con.


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Post Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:33 pm 
 

JasonZavoda wrote:He was also selling that limited gamescience Tegal Manor (which I've never gotten around to picking up) but I didn't see it up when I checked a week ago.


If you are interested, send him an email and ask about it.  Anything that he sells on Ebay, he has at least 5 copies of.  Having had a peek in his storage unit, he has lots more copies of the Traveller items.

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Post Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:07 pm 
 

I picked up a mono cover Gamescience Tegel from him for $25 just last month.


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Post Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:49 pm 
 

Yeah, for many reasons too numerous to go into here, Egor has left the building. We'll all miss him.

Realistically, his strong suit at Origins plays right into that con: board games.

Frankly, I don't know how several of the smaller "booths" do enough to call it anything but a write-off for advertising and "presence". The re-sellers look to have it toughest because there are so many competing, and that stuff is heavy, so no flying it to cons; it has to be driven.


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Post Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:45 pm 
 

I was just wondering what is the pricing for a booth or partial book at GenCon.  It seems in the past that a number of small press companies used to be able to afford a booth to promote and sell their limited range of items.

Some companies that come to mind are City Supplements who sold Kalifax, Fantasy Factor (Canada) who sold Catapult Run, etc.  I am guessing that today these companies would have no place at GenCon.

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Post Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:26 pm 
 

Here are the rates for this year's show:  

Exhibit Space Rates
Rebook Rate: $13 per square foot
Standard Rate: $16 per square foot
Premium: +20% for linear corner and endcap booths
Entrepreneurial Rate: $11 per square foot (10 x 10 standard booth only, limited availability, qualification at the sole discretion of Gen Con Show Management.)

Share Fee: $250 per company, pending approval by Gen Con Show Management. A separate Exhibitor Application Form must be submitted for each applicant.

Note: Rebook rate only available to Gen Con exhibitors who have participated as an official exhibitor since 2006 and reserve space prior to February 20, 2009.

All space reservations made after February 20, 2009, will be billed at the Standard Rate.


From http://www.gencon.com/files/indy/2009/I ... onForm.pdf

Those rates have gone up since 2007:  I checked into booths for PPP for the 40th anniversary show and my recollection is that the rates are now about $200/year higher for the Entrepreneurial rate (I remember the booth being ,  and that the 10x10 corner booths are up even more (since I don't think they were a full 20% higher).

I just double-checked, and the 2007 booth rates were $1220 Standard for 10x10 and $1400 for 10x10 corner.  Those same booths at this year's show were $1600, or $1920 for a corner booth.  Those are pretty hefty increases over just two years!


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Post Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 12:33 am 
 

Lol, that is actually MORE than the cost to exhibit at Manhattans Pier antique shows where one might encounter clients who can and do spend more money on single items than I expect an exhibitor can sell at gen con in total sales.  If I recall correctly it is also more than the exhibitor fees for the Atlantique City extravaganza in Atlantic City New Jersey.  Some of the big antique shows used to have, and probably still have several times the attendance of gencon over five days and fees are less than half that at almost all of them.  go figure.


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Post Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 12:28 pm 
 

Hi,

small publishers do tend to share booths still. I know ppl from the Uk who have been there for several years, sharing with US companies.

They don't do D&D mind, so might not have appeared on the radar here.

The booth price is not exhorbitant for the footfall. Unfortunately, it is an expensive industry to exhibit in.

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