Support the Dealer's Room

[archway.livejournal.com]

Freelancing is a tough road. Lots and lots of artists, merchants, designers, etc. actively try to make a living doing it. Travelling and working cons is WORK. The dealers rooms are places you can find things you just can't find anywhere else from some of the coolest people you would ever want to meet. Is it cheap? No. If you simply wanted to save a few bucks, go to Target.

In that same line, don't hamstring the dealers that PAID A LOT OF MONEY to have tables by side-stepping them and going to people that haven't paid the equivalent of Guild fees. It is just terrible Con Karma. If the dealers can't make ends meet, they don't come back. If they don't come back, how can you get that one-of-a-kind item? What would the con be like with a crappy dealer's room?

Is this a popular comment? No. Doing the right thing rarely matches doing the popular thing.

Thanks for listening...

Comments

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

I love the dealers' room. I've gone to D*C three times and got some wonderful things each time. I'm not into some of the more dominant items sold, like comic books, DVDs, weapons, games, etc., but I love the dealers who specialize in jewelery and clothes. Some of my best jewelry comes from con dealer rooms. Everybody asks me where I get it and when I say D*C, they're like, "They sell jewelry there?" LOL. I also got an amazing vintage poster from that poster dealer who I believe is an every-year type dealer, plus some great original art prints. So I really appreciate the dealer hall.

[archway.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the art is fantastic, no question. What's your vintage poster?

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

A giant poster for this 1952 film Babes in Bagdad, starring Paulette Goddard & Gypsy Rose Lee. They appear rather scantily clad. I took a picture of it a while back:



It's right next to me now, framed and hanging next to my office desk :)

[archway.livejournal.com]

Oh that is GREAT! Thanks for putting it up. I have never heard of the flick, but the art is nice!

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

I'd never heard of it either, as it was a B movie, but man, I had to have it!

[archway.livejournal.com]

...the movie too or just the poster?