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Linkster, you hit it again: AVN needs to run their shows to the benefit and to match the desires of webmasters. What we saw this past year in Miami with the "must have a badge to enter the hotel" certainly seemed to be more of an effort to squeeze money onto the bottom line than it was to fix any real issues that were outstanding. I understand that it was a result of a full hotel takeover and such, but the WAY it was approached was very difficult for many people to accept.
I think they realize that they got screwed on badges in Vegas last year, where most people couldn't get a badge, and many didn't even try. Most of the business got done in places that AVN couldn't charge for a badge, which is just not good for them.
The Venetian is a much better place for AVN to run a show. No a single real good place for a group of people to sit between the casino and the show floor - and it is a fuck of a long hallway. The mooching factor at the venetian will be much lower than it was at the Mandalay.
Running the show at better times of the year (miami about now, maybe Vegas is March?) would be much more condusive to the way we all do buisness. Interrupting holiday plans to scamper off to vegas for a show and to be forced to pay the absolute maximum rates for the whole year in vegas seems a little bit of a weird way to do business. I understand what it does for the AEE show... but we don't need to be there.
My bet? Next year it will be called the AEE Internext show and there will be no discussion of two seperate shows, just an area for internet people where the general public cannot access.
Alex
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