Bottom Of The Barrel

Comic-Con Day 1: Surviving The Flood

Having a booth with the largest allowable footprint at the Con does have it's disadvantages - Stocking. The back half of the booth is a stock room, which holds the products we have on hand for the day. We spent approximately 7 hours unloading pallets of boxes and restacking in the booth's stock room. The room was so full by the end of the day, you could hardly move around back there, but it was definitely needed.

Wednesday at the Con is called preview day - a 2 hour preview of the event - and only 4 day [entire show] pass holders are given preview night passes. Preview night starts at 7 pm and the exhibit hall closes down at 9 pm. As soon as the doors opened, there was a rush of people into the building and this is what our booth looked like at 7:05:


The line wrapped through our queue and around the booth. After 2 hours, it had not shrunk in length one bit. It was unbelievable to see the amount of products and money being exchanged with each customer. Show limits. Stacks of hundreds. So much product that 2 or 3 [or more] people had to help carry it away. Comic-Con allowed us to continue to sell until 9:30 pm and over the 2 and half hours, we processed 1/8th of our entire show sales revenue. I guess the slow economy has not yet effected the toy/collectible markets yet.

And that was just the first day...

Labels: Comic-Con

posted by TheWino @ 11:49 PM