Ichibancon 2014 – page 4
…yeah. Business was NOT good at this convention. We had a LOT of gawkers who never bought anything. And I don’t mean one quick glance as they walked by, either. I’m talking about standing around for ten minutes looking at EVERY SINGLE SOLITARY THING, then walking off without even taking a card. That gets old FAST.
I place the blame squarely on how young most of the con-goers were. GO GET A JOB, LOUSY KIDS! *waves cane around*
(Historical Notes: Yeeeaaah, I made jokes about this in the past, but it became a LOT less funny once I actually started trying to monetize what I do. This community may love to pat itself on the back over how encouraging and supportive it is, but it REALLY sucks at putting its money where it’s mouth is. Then again, see the following page…)
I usually didn’t take it too personally when this would happen, but the frequency that it happened that year was just a bit too much even for me.
I think the fact that Ichi had so many younger, less tactful people doing the looking amplified the effect quite a bit. Half the time those young whippersnappers don’t even realize what they’re saying until it’s already out of their mouths.