Trade Shows
The Philadelphia Auto Show begins today. Tickets to enter are $10 online and $12 at the door. Philadelphia area McDonald’s have been issuing $2 off coupons.
A few years ago Gert, Beetle, and I attended a food show outside Philadelphia. We paid to enter this show. It is the only trade show I have attended. I suspect it will be the only one I ever do.
The premise of these shows is flawed for me. Why should I pay admission in order to purchase things? That seems wrong to me.
I am not a car guy so my interest in attending an auto show is nil. One would get to see new models of cars and some concept cars. How many regular folks purchase a car at a car show? Why pay $10 to see these cars? I just do not understand.
Atlantic City hosts a boat show. Again, entry fees to see boats for sale?
I guess I am old and a curmudgeon. I just don’t get it.
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- Fisking Lautenberg - 2008
- Pi - 2008
- Misty - 2008
- Most Secure Job - 2007
- McGreevey To Confess - 2007
- What is a Locationless Cache? - 2006
- Chapter 12: The Speed of the Idea - 2005
- Chapter 11: The Human Element - 2005
- Weird NJ: Statuesque - 2003
- The Red Bank? - 2003
- It's the same only different!!! - 2003
- DA Ponds - 2003
- What was your first baseball game attended? - 2002
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