Internext-Expo - What a fucking rip off!
 

I just went to make hotel arrangements.
Looks like Rose travel was only given so many rooms for a reduced rate. Which are now all sold out.

Yet the hotel has "Plenty of rooms". For a $300/night price tag.

Then I look and it seems that the Exhibit badges went up from $125 to $170.

I'm bringing someone with me and now I'm lookin at spending

$1200 for Hotel
$340 for badges
$400 for airfare

Two fucking grand just to attend this thing. Not even sure it's worth it any more. Could they goudge us any more?

I thought perhaps that switching hotels was a bargining chip for f REDUCED rates.

Boy was I was wrong.

(Of there were other posts about this, sorry. I have not been to the board very often in the past month or so.)

Nice to hear that I will be making two grand by not going this year.

Dude, go to ATA and get a flight to Orlando and I will pick you up and you can spend 3 or 4 days in Key West with us and save over 1/2 of that and have more fun.

So far it looks like Toni and I and Cleo and Sheila and Luna.... what more fun could you have then that?

The Good Doctor hows things?

OUCH!!!
Thats a lot just to get there dam.

Sheila aka FoxyAngel say that she doesn't want to do Key West and is going to Vegas with a bunch of other trannies.

Thats cool, still plenty of time, I asked RubberRuss and Doll to join us as well, so who knows how many will actully go.

But I do know Toni and I will be there regardless.|bananna|

$70 a night at the Luxor which is right next door :)

WoW....Marc and I still have to make our plans......probably aim for staying at Monte Carlo or somewhere close.....

$170...that blows....I'm selling Internext Summer 2004 passes for $10 at the door. ;-)

XPorn

You can get a room with a kitchen and broadband for under $100 a night.
http://www.extendedstayhotels.com/Lo...V&lmetroid=223

Staying at another hotel is always such a hassle.

If you foget something you gotta run back to your hotel.
After you get crap at the convention, you gotta run back to your hotel to drop it off.

Then you can't get up into any Mandalay Bay rooms without someone from the hotel escorting you.


After a night of Party'in you gotta walk or cab back to your hotel.

And so on, and so on, and blah, blah, blah...

I have been pissed off all day because of this. |angry|

That I understand. I got a room at the Diplomat even thou I live here.

Yeah I made reservations a couple months ago and they said they were close to selling out. Hell I thought $165 a night was a little steep. I guess we are lucky we got the hotel when we did, I have ALWAYS thought the price for the damn passes was ridiculous. I mean anything over $100 for the pass just to get in and walk around the show is just flat out insane.

Not to mention considering the show is Tues - Thursday the price seems high for a hotel in vegas. You can usually get a room from $60 - $80 a night M-W, theirs is fixed the whole week.

I think next year I will be making my own hotel reservations thats for sure. Normally we stay at our condo in vegas but we sold it after January this year, so we are staying at hotels now.

Sorry to hear about it man. You dont sleep much anyway...you could just throw your clothes in someone else's room...hahahaha.

Andy

I'm in the same boat bringing the wife but flights from Canada are more money. $170 for a badge, so $340 for 2 people. Total ripoff!

Looks like we will mostly likely stay next door at Luxor or Excalibur. :(

Not to mention the money our wives cost us when they go shopping together. hahaha

The badges are how much??? Good lord!

|buddy|

I thought the flight from Canada plus hotel was bad enough. Then factor in the exchange rate:

USD for hotel converted to Canadian on credit card (CCs give the best rates, don't they?) paid by my Canadian bank account where I've already had to convert my USD checks. Doh!

I forgot to mention that $170 price tag is the REDUCED rate if you order before Oct. 31st.

After that it jumps up to $195 each.

Bend over everyone.

I plan on an AVN boycott for this very reason. For these prices they should reverse the places and dates of the shows.

That would have to be alot of tshirts |jester|

We were thinking about going this year but the price of the badge is a bit of a turn off. Especially after all of the other expenses.

Hey buddy. Things are going great. Busy as hell, but great...

How's things with you?

Living in Vegas has it's benefits |bananna|

Re: Internext-Expo - What a fucking rip off!
 

I went & got mine last night - I really like how they increase the price AND make you give them all kinds of info on your business - I took the highest one on each reply, so as fat as AVN knows:

What best describes your role within your company? - I make the final decisions

What best describes you? - I work exclusively in the adult industry

How many currently active unique URLs does your company own? - 100 or more

On a daily basis, how many unique visitors visit your sites (this is a combined total of all sites)? - More than 1,000,000

How many employees are in your entire organization? - More than 500

Which category best describes your company's annual revenues? - More than $100,000,000

Approximately how much will your organization spend in the next 12 months on all IT/Internet related products and services? - More than $5,000,000

That should fuck up their curve a bit :D

I don't know gg.... With info like that tickets may be $5,000 each next time. |jester|

Yes it does..plus it gives me no excuse for NOT going this year.. |rasta|

I have always had the opinion of, you need to spend money to make money. But, going to these shows seems to be more of spending money and not making money. Years ago, they were worthwhile...today, not so much :)

Like back in Miami when you & the other Big Wig's sat around, drank Cognac & smoked cigars like civilized gentlemen? :D