That sucks..

isprime had their shit stolen too. Both BEFORE the show at newark airport, then after the show like you all.

Maybe move the show next year, between that and the c2k fuckups I hear about (I just left after seeing the line.. I didn't even see the VIP fuckup since I had normal passes)

-Phil

I'm not so sure it's security... might be webmasters with a problem thinking they're gonna "be cool" or get money they think you owe them or something... who knows... children.
At the Monteal Cybernet Expo show the brand new wireless router was ripped off, VegasLee had to rush and buy one before the show started on the last day so everyone would have connection.

Stealing shit from Conventions is just low, when all of that stuff is being given away for free, not to mention all the food and booze as well.. it's just lame.

Ummm OK...And you save used condoms for what?

I hope this is the last show at the Venetian !!

I hope we go to the Mandalay Bay Convention Center next year !

We gave away a DVD and an X-Box and I was worried that the people would get stopped on the way out, but they just walked out no questions.

Over the past few years I have heard a ton of stories about stuff being stolen, it's a shame.

me

boneprone did it.

Kristin,

Sorry to hear you got ripped. It's happened to me as well in the past, the whole thing is a grease job right from the get-go. It's designed to take as much of your money and merchandise as you will allow, case in point: You can only take something to your booth that is "easily transportable" by yourself.. so the rules usually say but i've seen guys try to roll in 1 box of stuff and get turned away because the union weasels have to get their piece of the nut as you pay by the pound to have anything moved from point a to b. Those scales built into the forklifts are slot machines on wheels except you never get three cherries.

I have also hung around after everyone was supposed to leave and seen what goes on.. every single schmuck with a rented uniform whether it be the person sweeping the floor, picking up boxes or "security" swarms all over any and every thing that is left out. It's just too easy. Cardboard boxes abound that have to be taken to the trash by the weasels, drop in a pile of t shirts *BAM* easy. Hey how about some sex toys, *WHAM* gone, pfft. Maybe your cellphone, pda, banner, radio, any t shirt or giveaway item, computer, monitor or periph is snack food for convention leech monsters.

General public (not webmasters) will also take their share but that's usually going to be any small item that can be picked up off your table (whether it's supposed to be or not). How many of you have been looking right at someone and had to tell them to put that shit down cause it wasn't for them to take?

We *need* to be able to lock that stuff up 100 percent, keep it out of sight so it's out of mind or it's gone but that's not really workable because you're there to display your goods, booths don't really have anything in the way of security so it's ripe pickings while the security bird snoozes at the door.

So after you've been picked over, cashed out and ripped off you still have the fun to look forward to off surprise damage from return freight when your booth box comes back in match stick form.

As I write this it occurs to me that it would make very good sense for the webmaster population to hire some of their own security to watch the other security who is supposed to be watching out for the webmasters.. and are, but only so far as to see them leave so they can snarf up some more shit to take home to uncle cletus.

When I do my Negril thing.. I always bring my own security to watch out for our people.. it doesn't cost that much, is not hard to do .. probably has paid for itself 100 times over.

Have a good weekend and fuck the system!

negril jamaica?

yup

That totally sucks i guess the convention isn't that valued by the good people at the venetian and their staff...Sorry to hear about the valuables people lost...i really wanted one of those lightspeed jersies too...Let's move it North to toronto...rules are lax, the money goes farther...and we have tons of hot girls in town:winkwink:

I saw that shit coming, we took the Plasma TV and locked it in our booth conference room and stacked some cardboxes in front of it in case they broke in. Then we locked the PCs and LCD monitors in the booth cabinets. We didn't lose a thing.

Hey Dokk,
You make some good points, makes me look even more forward to Negril...and I wasn't sure that was even possible! I guess the thing that chaps my ass the most, is we play by their stupid rules. We pay thousands for internet access and pay for electricity, and then we have stupid shit being taken....

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

that sucks your shit got stolen but didnt you think you might want to lock it up or keep an eye on it at all times? i know i would. i wont even let my jacket out of my sight if i go to the bar, let alone leave computers/routers laying around.

...ahhh, I get it, i've just checked out your negrilnet.com site - looks pretty sweet.

See if I can get out there for next October, normally I stay a little outside Negril, up near the cliffs, in a place called the Caves, that place is beautiful.
later,
N_

We do it once a year always in February when the weather is the very best. No hurricanes, avg low 74, avg high 82 usually just before spring break.

No doubt it's a fuckin' party but it's also a write off and we've been doing it four years, it's good times.

About all the rooms are gone but we always manage to find space for everybody, in a little less than a month I'll be sitting on the beach sipping a cool one once again, yes! Been going so long it's like that restaurant you eat in every sunday where they already know what you want to eat and everybody knows your name. ;-)

All the way up to about 10 days out you can still get pretty good deals on flights, you are certainly welcome to come this Feb or next year for the 5th annual bash.

irie!