I couldn't afford ECCC this year, even tho its my home city. Sorry to have missed you. Would love to see more process videos of setting up. Also would love to know more about your sticker boxes, and stuff. I love your banner, and that its numbered.
Aw Seattle is a fun place. Sadly, I wont' be doing any more events as a vendor there because their convention center is just weird. But hopefully will get into artist alley one day! But thank you so much for the kind words! I'll try to show the setup process more for Otakon coming up. :D
@@EmiiCreations I don't blame you, on the Seattle convention center being weird thing, LOL. I'm sorry it wasn't a great convention for you, it has gotten kind of weird the last several years, and its very expensive.
We got an artist alley table last minute since we were waitlisted (In hindsight, should've stayed our asses home!). We did breakeven and made profit but it is not worth the hardwork to travel and work for 5 days. The show was advertised with 80k+ attendees and a soldout Saturday. The crowd feels like AX at the artist alley and people did swarm our booth but they didn't buy anything! We won't be coming back either.
Oh wow! Thank you for sharing your experience! I only been hearing good things from artist but I was wondering if that was the norm or just the ones that chose to speak up. I’m kind of glad to hear I wasn’t going crazy and that you felt that same vibe where there were many people but no one purchasing. Always really disheartening. I feel your pain and really hoping things get better overall.
Couldn’t agree more, I am a 3D artist and not local so I’ve always been put in the vendors hall here, but when I reached out later than usual to see if they had space for us, I really wish they had been honest and told me they didn’t have room in the hall rather than throw us in what felt like an “overflow” space in the old Arch building. We’ve had such a great experience and sales in the past that the feeling of being an afterthought was really disappointing… my table-helper made it her personal mission to get us chairs and a trashcan when they refused to given them to us until the show opened for some reason, then the facilities rep disappeared from his station before doing so and never returned. I went to the spot on the map where the vendor liaison office was to try to discuss things and provide some feedback, but it was a hot dog stand instead >_< definitely an off year…
We were in an even weirder situation as an artist and one of the 18 vendors they threw in the Arch. We had sales Saturday, and Sunday pulled us out of the red, but Thursday and Friday was an absolute ghost town. They thought having us with the guests would make up for having nothing else in the building, but since those people were guaranteed to be dropping a huge chunk of change of guest experiences and autographs, not so much. So many poor first-time attendees picking up their day-passes at Will-Call, wandering the nearly empty and un-signaged building for an hour then coming back to ask random vendors “…. Is this it?” The guy doing the security check of my luggage at the airport on the way home was bummed he didn’t see me to make a purchase at the con, because like many people that showed up with no intention of buying autographs, he and his daughter had no idea there was a second building… The maps claimed there were like 200 vendors in our hall, so even attendees that did make the hike over felt bait and switched when they got there and the 18 of us were all she wrote. I’m very sorry to hear you lost money on the endeavor. :(
Thanks for sharing all of this!
What an amazing video, enjoyed all the way through ☺☺☺
Glad you enjoyed it
I couldn't afford ECCC this year, even tho its my home city. Sorry to have missed you. Would love to see more process videos of setting up. Also would love to know more about your sticker boxes, and stuff. I love your banner, and that its numbered.
Aw Seattle is a fun place. Sadly, I wont' be doing any more events as a vendor there because their convention center is just weird. But hopefully will get into artist alley one day! But thank you so much for the kind words! I'll try to show the setup process more for Otakon coming up. :D
@@EmiiCreations I don't blame you, on the Seattle convention center being weird thing, LOL. I'm sorry it wasn't a great convention for you, it has gotten kind of weird the last several years, and its very expensive.
T___T I'm sad to hear you won't be coming back but I TOTALLY understand.
Aw we’ll still see each other at other events hopefully!
We got an artist alley table last minute since we were waitlisted (In hindsight, should've stayed our asses home!). We did breakeven and made profit but it is not worth the hardwork to travel and work for 5 days. The show was advertised with 80k+ attendees and a soldout Saturday. The crowd feels like AX at the artist alley and people did swarm our booth but they didn't buy anything! We won't be coming back either.
Oh wow! Thank you for sharing your experience! I only been hearing good things from artist but I was wondering if that was the norm or just the ones that chose to speak up. I’m kind of glad to hear I wasn’t going crazy and that you felt that same vibe where there were many people but no one purchasing. Always really disheartening. I feel your pain and really hoping things get better overall.
Couldn’t agree more, I am a 3D artist and not local so I’ve always been put in the vendors hall here, but when I reached out later than usual to see if they had space for us, I really wish they had been honest and told me they didn’t have room in the hall rather than throw us in what felt like an “overflow” space in the old Arch building. We’ve had such a great experience and sales in the past that the feeling of being an afterthought was really disappointing… my table-helper made it her personal mission to get us chairs and a trashcan when they refused to given them to us until the show opened for some reason, then the facilities rep disappeared from his station before doing so and never returned. I went to the spot on the map where the vendor liaison office was to try to discuss things and provide some feedback, but it was a hot dog stand instead >_< definitely an off year…
Also, celebrity photos and sigs were like $260 each for guests like Chris Evans so I think a lot of money went there too :/
So true! Now even more money is tight and everyone is making those this or that decisions.
We were in an even weirder situation as an artist and one of the 18 vendors they threw in the Arch. We had sales Saturday, and Sunday pulled us out of the red, but Thursday and Friday was an absolute ghost town. They thought having us with the guests would make up for having nothing else in the building, but since those people were guaranteed to be dropping a huge chunk of change of guest experiences and autographs, not so much.
So many poor first-time attendees picking up their day-passes at Will-Call, wandering the nearly empty and un-signaged building for an hour then coming back to ask random vendors “…. Is this it?” The guy doing the security check of my luggage at the airport on the way home was bummed he didn’t see me to make a purchase at the con, because like many people that showed up with no intention of buying autographs, he and his daughter had no idea there was a second building…
The maps claimed there were like 200 vendors in our hall, so even attendees that did make the hike over felt bait and switched when they got there and the 18 of us were all she wrote. I’m very sorry to hear you lost money on the endeavor. :(