Internext - You're paying $300 now :)
 

Just like me
I just realized that their early registration discount ended yesterday.
That means another 50 bucks thrown into AVNs pockets if I/you didn't register yesterday or the weeks before :).
Thanks for nobody posting a reminder ... not only that hotel and admission prices rose there goes even more money into their pockets.

Anyone want to get me an exhibitor badge? I will pay for it of course :)

$300? man thats steep.

With all the Michael Jackson news yesterday, looks like nobody cared about anything else, sadly enough... :(

That's more than my new McDonald's job pays per week :uhoh

Haven't been to a show in 2yrs

gees that's expensive.

Damn, totally forgot about it :disgust

what a ripoff...(their arguments that it will "weed" out non-industry people don't work iether)

They will be making a killing milking all the programs paying for boths + visitors...sad actualy

urgh 300 bucks.....100 bucks would have been better
I cant go anyway's.... :(

i guess funky bastard cant make it he would have to sell lots more domains

People are going to have to save their Mcjob money for weeks to be able to afford the ticket.

WooHoo!

Alex

$300 is a little steep but fuck it, gonna be one hell of a time

very true :)
5X days left

btw
view/reply ratio for this thread sucks ass lol

Ive paid over $500 in Convention fees this month, $1500 in airfare and made back close to $25-45k in signed contracts for services.

You arent going to make any money if you dont hit the road to meet people. Trying to claim otherwise is bullshit.

just walk in and dare them to stop you.

~Ray

The deadline for early registration has been bumped to midnight of June 17th.

Cheers. :thumbsup

nice :)
this thread was worth it then

and you KNOW even after that, people are going to bitch about how they missed the early registration :helpme Nice move Aly, shows someone is listening :thumbsup

Aly, can you please break down the justification of charging so much for attendees of the show, and then ALSO charging big fees for booths, and vice versa

im not going this year (for several reasons). but i dont like how they're trying to rip us off & ass rape us with riduculous charges. its not about having the money to go or not, its about how high the prices got.

hotel rooms are more this year, badges are more this year, you have to have an internext badge just to get into the HOTEL LOBBY (which is forcing everyone to pay the $300/badge).

fuck that bullshit. i can do biz via messengers & if i wanna go swimming, the beach is only 30 mins away.

well I can generally understand that (even though I don't like it) but what I don't understand is why the hotel room prices increased as well

I checked on their (westin) website what a normal room would cost a night a week prior to the show and that was a difference of like 30 or 40 bucks (not 100% sure).
I would have thought that if you book the whole hotel AND ask twice the money for attendence to have a "closed", badge-only convention that at least the hotel prices would be cheaper... I mean.. isn't the purpose of registering huge amounts of rooms at a hotel to get a discount price????

keep telling yourself that :1orglaugh

Oh my fuckin god... we have a winner here folks!!!

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

agreed, stupid shit...i know 3-4 people in the atlanta area alone that are just skipping the show all together...not cause they don't have the money, they don't like to feel ripped off

and to those that claim you won't make money if you don't hit the road...hahahahah...what a bullshit statement..there are hundreds of ballers in this biz that have NEVER been to one convention or left their house for business for that matter

exactly

I've been in the biz since late 96, made a couple million bucks over the years and have only been to one show, the last one that was in Vegas this year. And I saw no reason to ever attend another one.

I know for a fact I wouldn't have made the money I've made if I hadn't gone to shows. Your mileage may vary - it's not a "one size fits all" situation :)

i think for SOME people, shows are necessary. Like girls that have their own single girl sites that want to be known & get more affiliates, or designers trying to get themselves known to other webmasters, and of course, hosting & content providers that have competition & have to keep promoting themselves.

But for the average at-home webmaster, no, you dont need to go to a show to make money. Its nice to go & meet the faces behind the board names but thats about it.

Glad to know Im not the only one thinking this is a ripoff...

maybe aly missed this question

Ouch shows getting bigger and so are the tickets

@ pheer: true
I don't need shows either
it's a good way however to meet old friends, party and have a nice lil holiday trip AND tax deduct everything :)

YARGH! I be registered since the day it was open. Seems sillier than a squad of dancin' clammy clams, to up the price. What be the reason?

Entirely depends on what your target market is and how you work it. I also have made quite a bit of paper and much more from roadwork as of late...

Shows are only what you make them to be. Most of the Internext's that I have been to turned into a drunken kegger of morons. I had my set appointments with people outside the event, got the deals done and then crusied the floor for possible biz.... I'd never waste my time with drunks.

I would like a break down of why it's so much I just don't like the feeling of being fucked either if there is a good reason they should just be able to tell us as the customer is always right?...or am I wrong?

[email protected]

:)

i would like it answered publicly, in fact, it seems a lot of people have the same question, with no official answer from AVN

Send her an email to direct her to this thread. As fast as things move here, she might not have SEEN your question.

early reg extended
http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=480771

yeah she has, it is her job to stay on here and monitor what is going on....if she hasn't seen it, she will...

part of her job is to be on the boards and monitor all that is about AVN and address it