Not to be mean but the money goes to different hands. Just to name a few. For ever 100 or so people

CCI: SD is changing how they are selling their badges for next year s show: instead of selling passes to the 2012 edition inside the convention center, sales are being moved to the Manchester Grand Hyatt, where pre-registration will be available cheap car rental in fort myers florida Thursday through Sunday from 8 am to 11 am.
He confirmed that as they did last year, only a percentage of badges will go on sale at the show some will be held back for later online sales. In addition, they may hold back some Preview Night badges cheap car rental in fort myers florida but it hasn t been decided cheap car rental in fort myers florida yet, he continued.
* Please note this is a full WEEK earlier than usual! This means two things the stress on shows earlier on the calendar like HeroesCon will be greater, and MAYBE, just MAYBE, we ll be able to enjoy a little bit of summer after the show instead of barreling straight to Labor Day after a nap.
But when will the online sales happen and how will it happen? I have been going for the past 20 years and made the mistake of not buying passes for this year s at last year s show. I have tried to buy passes for me and my son and failed. It was so hard to get tickets for this year s show.
I think the wording is very specific. I bet if you purchase a Thur, Fri, Sat you will not be allowed to purchase a Just Sunday . Since they have you register your email for purchase they know what you are buying.
what concerns me more is overloading the already cheap car rental in fort myers florida crowded hyatt with everybody trying to buy badges. I suggested to them to just combine it with badge pickup would have been super easy, not involved another whole operation, and eliminated a massive bottleneck, but oh well.
Riiiiiight! Give all the ppl staying at the Manchester Grand Hyatt an advantage over the rest of us who will have to find time to get there. What was so bad about selling next year s badges in the Convention Center? I m getting really close to the point where I m no longer interested in this event. I guess the 1500 ppl who returned their badges this year is just a preview of what s to come.
@trev Actually if they had allowed people to purchase 2012 at the time they pick up their 2011 badges, it would have created an incredibly huge bottleneck. Right now, you go in, you show your ID, they scan your barcode, your badge prints, you get it along with your lanyard and bag, and you re done. Technically a 1 minute process. But if you throw in each of those people filling out registration forms for each person they re purchasing for, swiping credit cards (and occasionally dealing with declined messages), etc, you turn a line of 50,000 people picking up badges quickly so that they can get to the line they really want to be in (exhibition hall or panels) into a badge pickup and purchase line that ends up taking 10-20 minutes per person. Even with dozens of purchase terminals, it would be a disaster.
Having it away from the convention center is absolutely the best option, but I would have preferred a more neutral cheap car rental in fort myers florida location. I guess there s just no other location nearby outside of Petco Park that could have accommodated such a crowd.
Oh, goodie! This means driving down from LA on Thursday morning there s little likelihood we ll get there in time to get checked into our hotel, get down to the convention center and pick up our badges, and then find the stupid hotel before sales are over for the day. So that means FRIDAY morning when I had things I wanted to do. What idiot thought a 3-hour window in the mornings was a good time for ticket sales?
I m none too please with this change. Why take it out of the sails area? As the con wears on, those coming in for single days and using registration gets less and less. The presale area could have expanded. Moving offsite and with such limited hours is very, very inconvienient. Plus, I m still in sticker shock over the price increases! Now, no discount for presale, no discount for all 4 days and we can only buy for a total of 12 hours over the duration of the con?!!
David Glanzer and company cheap car rental in fort myers florida are doing this because they can. They know people will continue to pay these ridiculous prices no matter how high they go even people who work at low-wage jobs that only pay $9 or $10 an hour will keep buying badges too. With the horrible economy we re in right now, what Comic-Con is doing is downright immoral.
The bubble will burst sooner or later. As DaisyD said, seeing as how 1500 people have already returned their badges this year, that is a sure sign of things to come. Prices will most likely eventually get to a point to where only the wealthy will be able to afford cheap car rental in fort myers florida to go, and everyone else will be squeezed out.
While I believe the only way you ll ever get Comic-Con to change their tune is to have attendees boycott the event, I know this won t happen. But I m fairly certain that once the bubble eventually does burst on badge prices, Comic-Con will have to re-think what they are doing if they want to continue to put on this show.
@JBVO if you havent noticed yet, comic con has expanded futher out than the Convention Center. How do you think that is paid for? The new deal that took place between the city of San Diego and Comic Con Organizers, How do you think the expansion will be paid for by 2015?
David Glanzer and company are doing this because they can. They know people will continue to pay these ridiculous prices no matter how high they go – even people who work at low-wage jobs that only pay $9 or $10 an hour will keep buying badges too. With the horrible economy cheap car rental in fort myers florida we're in right now, what Comic-Con is doing is downright immoral.
The main one being that every one who has seen CCI take over Downtown has decided to squeeze CCI for every dime. So the price of traffic cops went up. The price of security went up. The convention center went up (this after the city handled about $100K to CCI- which is still a lot less than the Chargers and Padres get).
And only 3 hours in the morning? Oh, way to make people choose between going to any combination of the first TWO panels this year and going at all next year. Cause if you re not lined up for badges by 8am, you re not getting a badge.
I agree with what both of you are saying, however, if the economy doesn t turn around cheap car rental in fort myers florida eventually, a lot less people are going to be traveling, which amounts to fewer people going to conventions, or even taking the usual summer cheap car rental in fort myers florida roadtrip. More and more people are staying home every summer due in part to the bad economy. The price of everything (vacations, conventions, retail prices, etc.) is going up, but no one s paychecks are going up as fast as everything else is. The money that people used to have to afford to attend conventions or take trips is not there anymore. They re more concerned about where their next paycheck is going to come from not about a vacation.
And you can t really argue with the fact that some of the middle-class people and even the $9 or $10 an hour crowd who used to be able to afford to attend cheap car rental in fort myers florida Comic-Con will still be squeezed out. Those people will no longer be able to afford to go. And if the badges that don t sell/are returned are not discounted considerably, there s still some people who won t be able to afford to go.
I realize that security costs are going up and the expansion of the convention center has to be paid for somehow, but in tough economic times, it really doesn t make a whole lot of sense to raise prices on badges. I used to go to this convention, but the higher prices have squeezed me out entirely and I ve had to tighten my belt.
And maybe I m just getting old myself cheap car rental in fort myers florida I remember the days when four-day badges used to be $35 or $40. That price has quadrupled in the last 15 years it seems. I wish my paycheck would have done the same thing.
Not to be mean but the money goes to different hands. Just to name a few. For ever 100 or so people you need a certain amount of police, medical, and firefighters. The city dont cover that so CCI has to.
Special guest; they know how large it has got over the years and want more catering . exp: They want the largest hotel room with all the free cheese, wine and women they can have (sry watching to much Games of Thrones in one sitting). CCI has to treat the guess that we all want to see.
Then taxes and legal fees. We have have not so cool people that like to sue for fun. Every year CCI gets sued by several people that tripped while they were looking at a map. Then thinks its not their fault. We have to pay them. Think about this. We get about 80hrs of awesomeness for what we pay. How much would 9hrs at Disney cost?
I hate that it s at the Hyatt but I agree with a lot of the stuff re the increase in costs for putting on the show but I don t think it s really the Special Guests since the Special cheap car rental in fort myers florida Guests are not the Hollywood stars but the same kind of Special Guests that the Con has had for all these years writers, artists, inkers, authors (mainly SF/F), and others connected to the comics industry.
And does anyone know if there will be limits on how many passes one person can purchase at the Con? I m the only one in my group that managed to a 4-day w/Preview Night so I have a feeling that my Thursday morning will be devoted to the 2012 pre-reg line. -_-
Yeah, there are issues. I ve had some annoyances myself, but it s a tsunami of humanity and that s just to be expected. When s the last time you went to Disney or a baseball game and didn t encounter a dickhead or two?
I agree with what others said this is so inconvenient. I really cheap car rental in fort myers florida hope they offer Preview Night pre-reg or post-panel hours. Trying to run down to that hotel and back before the panel line moves (and try to have someone hold your place in line while you do so) is so impractical!
@JBVO if the show sells out,the economy is a non-factor. During the resale of tickets they raised the price $105 to $137. Did it sell out? yes, it did. Did you think the price would remain cheap car rental in fort myers florida the same after the resale, or were you not paying attention?
cheap car rental in fort myers florida @Rob J Your idea would be much better if you said extra 30 minutes at the beginning for the exhi